- Email: [email protected]
AIDS Study Seeks Minority Participants
Online Technology Reducing Heart Attack, Stroke Risks
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he American Heart Association has launched MyHeartWatch(SM), a free online interactive program and community for preventing heart attack and stroke in at-risk individuals. The site—myheartwatch.org—offers interactive health management tools such as “Know Your Heart Attack Risk,” an online assessment that predicts a person’s actual risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease within the next 10 years based on current risk factors. The assessment uses information from the Framingham Heart Study and is based on the National Cholesterol Education Program and Adult Treatment Panel III. “Ask-an-Expert” offers participants access to an “online professional.” Questions are posted by participants, then selected and answered by American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s “Expert Panel” of volunteers. Other site features include a nutrition calculator, discussion groups, chat rooms and a behavioral modification program.
AIDS Study Seeks Minority Participants
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he Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) are the two largest observational studies of HIV/ AIDS in women and homosexual or bisexual men, respectively, in the United States. These studies have repeatedly made major contributions to understanding how HIV is spread, how the disease progresses and how it can best be treated. Now, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is launching a campaign to boost the size of the study groups by 60 percent and increase the number of minority participants. The enlarged groups will focus on contemporary questions regarding HIV infection and treatment. Since the early days of HIV/AIDS, two key changes have occurred. First, a dis-
February/March 2002
Save These Dates! DATE 3/15-17, 2002
LOCATION The Homestead; Hot Springs, VA
EVENT “Coming Home to AWHONN: Nursing the Nurse Body, Mind & Spirit,” 2002 Virginia Section Conference; call Diane Kopcial at (540) 463-3185 or email her at [email protected] or call Paula Pippin at (434) 982-7444 or email her at [email protected]
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Collinsville, IL Illinois
AWHONN Section Meeting, call Ginny Harbison at (270) 388-2643
5/7-8
Sarasota, FL
AWHONN Florida Annual Section Conference, email Ellen Zottoli at [email protected]
6/23-26
Boston, MA
“Lighting the Way…,” The AWHONN 2002 Convention, surf to www.awhonn.org or call (800) 673-8499
11/14-16
Halifax, Nova Scotia
AWHONN Canada 13th National Conference “Surviving and Thriving: Coaching Mothers, Women and Nurses Through Transitions.” For more information, surf to www.awhonn.org
On-going
Call for location
The AWHONN Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practices Workshop; call AWHONN FAX-ON-DEMAND (800) 395-7373 to request FAX document #610.; for information about the Instructor Enhancement Course, request document #611.
Get your next meeting or educational session listed in AWHONN Lifelines by faxing your information to: AWHONN Lifelines — Save These Dates: (207) 825-3070 or email [email protected]. Announcements are included on a space-available basis. ease that initially affected mostly gay, white males has moved into minority populations, striking both men and women. Of newly infected men in the United States, 50 percent are black and 20 percent are Hispanic; of newly infected women, 64 percent are black and 18 percent are Hispanic. Second, highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, has greatly improved treatment. MACS and WIHS were established in 1984 and 1993, respectively. Since their inception, both studies have lost a large number of participants to HIV disease, particularly MACS since many participants enrolled years before today’s effective drugs were available. Both studies also require increased minority enrollment to reflect the status of HIV in the United States. The new enrollment will ensure the cohorts remain large enough to address new questions about the disease in a population that best represents people with HIV today. Currently, the two studies are enrolling persons who are HIV negative or HIV positive and have never received HIV therapy, or who are HIV positive and have medical records available from the time they started therapy. Participants who have started
therapy must have begun receiving HAART before developing an opportunistic infection. MACS has sites in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; additional information is available on the MACS Web site at www.statepi.jhsph. edu/macs/macs.html. WIHS sites are located in Baltimore, Chicago, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The WIHS Web site is located at www.statepi.jhsph. edu/wihs/index.html.
ArcticHealth Web Site Launched
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he National Library of Medicine has created a Web site aimed at the special needs of the inhabitants of the Arctic. ArcticHealth provides access to evaluated health information from hundreds of local, state, national and international agencies, as well as from professional societies and universities. The new site has sections devoted to chronic diseases, behavioral issues, traditional medicine, environment/pollution and environmental justice. Access ArcticHealth at http://arctichealth.nlm.nih.gov/. ♦
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he American Heart Association has launched MyHeartWatch(SM), a free online interactive program and community for preventing heart attack and stroke in at-risk individuals. The site—myheartwatch.org—offers interactive health management tools such as “Know Your Heart Attack Risk,” an online assessment that predicts a person’s actual risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease within the next 10 years based on current risk factors. The assessment uses information from the Framingham Heart Study and is based on the National Cholesterol Education Program and Adult Treatment Panel III. “Ask-an-Expert” offers participants access to an “online professional.” Questions are posted by participants, then selected and answered by American Heart Association and American Stroke Association’s “Expert Panel” of volunteers. Other site features include a nutrition calculator, discussion groups, chat rooms and a behavioral modification program.
AIDS Study Seeks Minority Participants
T
he Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) are the two largest observational studies of HIV/ AIDS in women and homosexual or bisexual men, respectively, in the United States. These studies have repeatedly made major contributions to understanding how HIV is spread, how the disease progresses and how it can best be treated. Now, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is launching a campaign to boost the size of the study groups by 60 percent and increase the number of minority participants. The enlarged groups will focus on contemporary questions regarding HIV infection and treatment. Since the early days of HIV/AIDS, two key changes have occurred. First, a dis-
February/March 2002
Save These Dates! DATE 3/15-17, 2002
LOCATION The Homestead; Hot Springs, VA
EVENT “Coming Home to AWHONN: Nursing the Nurse Body, Mind & Spirit,” 2002 Virginia Section Conference; call Diane Kopcial at (540) 463-3185 or email her at [email protected] or call Paula Pippin at (434) 982-7444 or email her at [email protected]
4/5
Collinsville, IL Illinois
AWHONN Section Meeting, call Ginny Harbison at (270) 388-2643
5/7-8
Sarasota, FL
AWHONN Florida Annual Section Conference, email Ellen Zottoli at [email protected]
6/23-26
Boston, MA
“Lighting the Way…,” The AWHONN 2002 Convention, surf to www.awhonn.org or call (800) 673-8499
11/14-16
Halifax, Nova Scotia
AWHONN Canada 13th National Conference “Surviving and Thriving: Coaching Mothers, Women and Nurses Through Transitions.” For more information, surf to www.awhonn.org
On-going
Call for location
The AWHONN Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practices Workshop; call AWHONN FAX-ON-DEMAND (800) 395-7373 to request FAX document #610.; for information about the Instructor Enhancement Course, request document #611.
Get your next meeting or educational session listed in AWHONN Lifelines by faxing your information to: AWHONN Lifelines — Save These Dates: (207) 825-3070 or email [email protected]. Announcements are included on a space-available basis. ease that initially affected mostly gay, white males has moved into minority populations, striking both men and women. Of newly infected men in the United States, 50 percent are black and 20 percent are Hispanic; of newly infected women, 64 percent are black and 18 percent are Hispanic. Second, highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, has greatly improved treatment. MACS and WIHS were established in 1984 and 1993, respectively. Since their inception, both studies have lost a large number of participants to HIV disease, particularly MACS since many participants enrolled years before today’s effective drugs were available. Both studies also require increased minority enrollment to reflect the status of HIV in the United States. The new enrollment will ensure the cohorts remain large enough to address new questions about the disease in a population that best represents people with HIV today. Currently, the two studies are enrolling persons who are HIV negative or HIV positive and have never received HIV therapy, or who are HIV positive and have medical records available from the time they started therapy. Participants who have started
therapy must have begun receiving HAART before developing an opportunistic infection. MACS has sites in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; additional information is available on the MACS Web site at www.statepi.jhsph. edu/macs/macs.html. WIHS sites are located in Baltimore, Chicago, Hawaii, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The WIHS Web site is located at www.statepi.jhsph. edu/wihs/index.html.
ArcticHealth Web Site Launched
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he National Library of Medicine has created a Web site aimed at the special needs of the inhabitants of the Arctic. ArcticHealth provides access to evaluated health information from hundreds of local, state, national and international agencies, as well as from professional societies and universities. The new site has sections devoted to chronic diseases, behavioral issues, traditional medicine, environment/pollution and environmental justice. Access ArcticHealth at http://arctichealth.nlm.nih.gov/. ♦
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