NCCRT Evaluation and Measurement Subgroup co-chair Ann G. Zauber, PhD, presented a poster describing 80% by 2018 progress to date at the 2016 Digestive Disease Week Conference in San Diego last month. The poster illustrates the progress of the 80% by 2018 initiative by comparing the number needed to screen to reach 80% by 2018 […]
ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Fox News HERE Aerobic exercise four hours after a memorization task, but not exercise right afterwards, was linked to improved recall in a series of Dutch experiments. Newly-learned information turns into long-term knowledge through a process of stabilization and integration of memories, the study team writes in Current Biology. This requires certain […]
Washington Real Men Wear Gowns: New screening process for colon cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from KREM by Mark Hanrahan SPOKANE, Wash. – There is a good chance you or someone you know has visited a CHAS clinic in Spokane. However, you may not know about the organization’s recent push to screen more patients for colon cancer. “We went from 8.5% screening rate up to 33% last […]
Smoke Free MSU to be a tobacco-free campus this fall
FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from The State News by Sasha Zidar CLICK HERE In August 2016, Michigan State University will officially be a tobacco-free campus. The MSU Board of Trustees approved for a tobacco-free campus in 2015 to help ensure that the Spartan community enjoys a healthy lifestyle on campus. In April 2013, the Office of […]
Wichita Falls Wichita Falls Smoking Ban Grace Period Ends; All Bars and Restaurants Now Smoke-Free
ORIGINAL ARTICLE from NewsTalk 1290 HERE Friday, June 17 marks the end of the two-year grace period of the Wichita Falls smoking ban and all bars and restaurants in the city are now smoke-free. City councilors voted the approval of the smoking ban in 2014 with the amendment that would allow patrons of bars and […]
SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium June National Native Network Newsletter
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD JUNE NATIONAL NATIVE NETWORK NEWSLETTER Featured in this issue: Traditional Foods Toolkit American Indian Commercial Tobacco Program Information Chris Cooper Blog Tammi Meissner Blog Infographics
Obesity 15 Minutes of Daily Exercise May be Reasonable Target in Older Adults
ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Science Codex HERE Sophia Antipolis – June 14, 2016: Fifteen minutes of daily exercise is associated with a 22% lower risk of death and may be a reasonable target for older adults, reveals research presented today at the EuroPRevent 2016 meeting by Dr David Hupin, a physician in the Department of Clinical […]
Vegetable Patches 3 Detroit nonprofits focus on making city healthy
ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Marti Benedetti from Crain’s Detroit Little did former Detroit Mayor Hazen Pingree know in 1894 that his fervor for growing produce in Detroit would return in 2016. But that is exactly what is happening, according to three Detroit nonprofits at the 24th Annual Congress for New Urbanism. Pingree was beloved and best […]
Youth Yoga classes for kids are leaving them stress-free
ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Gina Silva from FOX LA At a small school in Inglewood, California, students are learning for the first time, the benefits of yoga. Eight-year-old Mekhi Mitchell says, “Yoga helps me by making me less angry, more happy, and less mad.” Yoga classes are taught as part of the physical education program […]
nnn Do picture warnings on cigarettes increase quit attempts?
FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from MedicalNewsToday.com by Marie Ellis CLICK HERE Results of the study are published in JAMA Internal Medicine. According to the study authors, the United States led the world by being the first to require cigarette pack warnings in 1966. However, since then, the country has fallen behind others in implementing effective pack […]