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GW Cancer Center Releases Updated Lung Cancer Awareness Month Social Media Toolkit

November is lung cancer awareness month, an opportunity to raise awareness about the disease; combat stigma around a lung cancer diagnosis; and support patients, survivors and caregivers affected by lung cancer. Are you looking for ways to promote lung cancer awareness but don’t know where to start? The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce […]

Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board Receives Funding for Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening

Visit Great Plains Tribal Chairmans Health Board Here (Rapid City, SD) The Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board received a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic, and treatment referral services within the 17 tribes and one service unit in a four state […]

Funding Opportunity – “The Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Populations”

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is committed to supporting research that will increase scientific understanding of the health status of diverse population groups thus improving the effectiveness of health interventions and services for individuals within those groups. This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) focuses on sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, […]

In Case You Slip Up

ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM IQuitMonday.org HERE You’ve embarked on a brave journey to quit smoking. Maybe you’ve made it through the first few days without a cigarette, riding out cravings and filling your new free time in healthier ways. But then something happened – a rough day at work, an argument with family or a long commute through […]

GW Cancer Center Releases New Resource on Patient Navigation

The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce the release of Implementing the Commission on Cancer Standard 3.1: Patient Navigation Process: A Road Map for Comprehensive Cancer Control Professionals and Cancer Program Administrators. This CDC-funded resource was developed in response to technical assistance requests by comprehensive cancer control stakeholders to help build capacity to meet […]

One e-cigarette with nicotine leads to adrenaline changes in nonsmokers’ hearts

ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM ScienceDaily.com HERE A new UCLA study found that healthy nonsmokers experienced increased adrenaline levels in their heart after one electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) with nicotine but there were no increased adrenaline levels when the study subjects used an a nicotine-free or empty e-cig. The findings are published in Journal of the American Heart Association, […]

Opportunity for Public Comment: USPSTF Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is a non-governmental panel that examines scientific evidence to provide recommendations on a wide range of health services. Draft recommendations allow for a period of public comment. Most recently, the USPSTF has issued draft revised guidelines for cervical cancer screening and is inviting public comment on the guidelines […]

Home visits help strengthen maternal, infant health in Native American communities

ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY Katie Pearce of John Hopkins University HERE A baby’s first laugh, in Navajo culture, is cause for formal celebration. Whoever provokes that milestone moment wins the privilege of hosting a “first laugh ceremony” to mark the infant’s full arrival into the earthly world. “That laugh sounds to the world, ‘This is me […]

September 2017 National Native Network Newsletter

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD NEWSLETTER In this month’s NNN Newsletter: Benefits of a Commercial Smoke Free Facility Funding Opportunity: 2017 Commercial Tobacco-Free College Program – from Truth Initiative Recent Webinar Archives AICTP Crushes Enrollment Goal with 193 for 2017 Tobacco: Honoring our Traditions and our Health Published Articles and Research Funding Opportunities Upcoming Events CLICK […]

Benefits of a Commercial Smoke Free Policy

Tribes have a sovereign right to determine the health of their own people. To adopt and implement a commercial smoke free policy to protect children and elders from the dangers of commercial secondhand smoke is an exercise of that sovereignty. A policy also helps state the Tribe’s position on commercial tobacco and commercial secondhand smoke […]

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