November 2006 Archives

The Center for Health Disparities Research at UNLV's School of Public Health has published the first issue of its Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice. It is available online at no cost at http://chdr.unlv.edu/JHDRP.htm

Articles in volume 1, number 1 are:

"A Pilot self-care group intervention for low-income HIV-positive women" by Maithe Enriquez, Margaret S. Miles, Jacki Witt, Paul Gore, and Nancy Lackey.

Since the flu season is upon us, I thought it might be time to list some good resources:

PandemicFlu.gov (http://www.pandemicflu.gov) from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services covers a variety of aspects of influenza, from therapies to economic impacts. It has a clickable map that will lead you to resources for your state.

Medline Plus has a collection of links on its Flu page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/flu.html)

To see what's happening in influenza research, check out the influenza subject page at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/influenza/)

Here in Nevada, the Clark County Health District has a "Disease Statistics by Month" (http://www.cchd.org/disease_statistics.htm) report that will tell you how many cases have been diagnosed that month.