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Learn more about the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board

The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board is one of the National Native Network’s partner agencies. Here is an introduction and promotional video explaining who they are. Enjoy! For more information on the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board click here.

Cigarette-pack warnings work better with photos

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News CLICK HERE Gruesome pictures on cigarette packages may convince more smokers to quit, a U.S. study suggests. In a four-week experiment, researchers randomly assigned about 2,150 adult smokers to receive either text-only or photo-enhanced warnings on their cigarette packs. With pictures, smokers were 29 percent more likely to try […]

New Survey Finds 50 Percent of People Living with HIV in Michigan Smoke Cigarettes

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM MDHHS by Jennifer Eisner CLICK HERE For Immediate Release: June 3, 2016 LANSING, Mich. – In Michigan, 50 percent of people living with HIV and in HIV treatment are smokers, according to a new survey administered through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) Tobacco Control Program (TCP). In […]

Detroit Ranks No. 21 for Average Fitbit Daily Steps

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Stephanie Steinberg of The Detroit News CLICK HERE DETROIT, Mich. — Marcia Varner’s bright yellow sneakers were laced up. They didn’t exactly go with her black pencil skirt, but she wasn’t trying to make a fashion statement. About to pound the Detroit RiverWalk during a sunny lunch break, the Blue Cross […]

Throop to consider banning tobacco from parks and playgrounds

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Jeff Harvath from The Times-Tribune Smoking in borough parks, playgrounds and recreational areas soon may be banned. Council will consider adopting a new ordinance prohibiting the use of tobacco products at those locations during its June 13 meeting. If passed, the ordinance would expand Throop’s existing ban on tobacco use in […]

Chris Cooper Blog on Cancer Screening

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Cancer comes in all shapes and sizes. It does not discriminate, and effects people from all walks of life. I am only in my 40’s and have already been screened for various cancers due to illness. Each time, I breathed a sigh of relief when the doctor told me that I did […]

Use of neighborhood environment can help overweight adolescents increase physical activity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Medical Xpress A program encouraging overweight or obese adolescents to increase their physical activity through use of their everyday environment, rather than organized classes or sports programs, produced significant increases in participants’ daily physical activity that were sustained for at least three to four months. A report on a pilot study […]

Researchers suggest whole-person perspective is needed to assess obesity

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from EurekAlert! Authors from the Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric and Metabolic Institute recommend physicians use obesity staging models to recognize and manage weight-related health issues that may not be captured by traditional diagnosis criteria. The review article was published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. The authors urge physicians to take […]

Effects of maternal smoking continue long after birth

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Science Daily Early exposure to nicotine can trigger widespread genetic changes that affect formation of connections between brain cells long after birth, a new Yale-led study has found. The finding helps explain why maternal smoking has been linked to behavioral changes such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, addiction, and conduct […]

No smoking or vaping at California beaches or parks under this bill

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Patrick McGreevy with Los Angeles Times Smoking would be banned at California parks and beaches as a health and wildfire risk under legislation approved Tuesday by the state Senate. Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego) introduced SB 1333, which would make smoking and disposing of tobacco waste an infraction subject to a […]

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