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Read informative articles about our Health Literacy programs below!
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Call-to-Action Community Involvement
The Fight for Health Care Reform is FAR from Over. YOU CAN PARTICIPATE!
Learn ALL that you can about the Presidents Proposed Reform Plan.
Share your knowledge with friends, family and co-workers. Be Involved!
"Tips Given for Heathly Aging" by Melinda Tuhus | May 22, 2009
OneWorld's Forum on Health Care Reform in America
shed light on different "universal" health care options-
Read the article, "Reform Is Coming" by Melinda Tuhus by clicking HERE.
SustiNet Explained by Melinda Tuhus | April 17, 2009
Panelists Send Out An Autism Alert by Thomas MacMillan | April 1, 2009
Click to view more online resources on Autism Spectrum Disorder!
Resources for Dyslexia on the Web Chosen by OneWorld, Inc. Click HERE!
New Haven Independent article on Feb. 20, 2009:
"Good News for Dyslexics" by Melinda Tuhus
The Yale Cancer Center
A comprehensive cancer center for treatment and research.
The Yale Cancer Center puts out a great newsletter called "Generations" and Spring 2009's issue features a look into checking our genetic links to certain cancers.
Visit the Yale Cancer Center site to sign up for the newsletter, and
click HERE to read the Spring 2009 issue right now!
National Institutes of Health -- Health Information Index: health.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health Library
A Comprehensive Health Library to use to learn about various health issues.
nihlibrary.nih.gov
Congress.org - Get informed, get involved
Reach your elected representatives ... Get Your Representatives' Votes by email weekly. Find out exactly what is going on in Congress. Let your representatives hear from you
http://www.congress.org/
Heal Health Care Now: Doctors Speak Out for Reform
Heal Health Care Now is an initiative of 450,000 physicians and medical students that supports rebuilding the primary care foundation on which high-quality...
www.healhealthcarenow.org/
MedlinePlus: Interactive Health Tutorials
The tutorials listed are interactive health education resources.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html
Is There a New Kind Of Breast Cancer?: Paget's Disease
A widely circulating e-mail article claims that new form of breast cancer and starts as a rash on a woman's breast, instead of showing up as a lump.
www.center4research.org/pagets.html
Here are some additional reliable sources of information:
Definition of Paget Disease of the Nipple
Information from the NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms.
Paget Disease of the Nipple: Questions and Answers
A fact sheet about Paget disease of the nipple, an uncommon type of breast cancer that is sometimes called mammary Paget's disease.
National Cancer Institute Fact Sheet 6.39
American Diabetes Association
Get the latest diabetes news and research summaries.
Recipes, etc.
www.diabetes.org
Stem Cell Research Questions & Answers
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
www.jdrf.org/index.php
NDEP | Information & Tips on Diabetes Prevention
Diabetes prevention is proven, possible, and powerful.
Studies show that people at high risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.
ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/prev/prevention.htm
National Diabetes Education Program
www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/prev/prevention.htm
Feet Can Last a Lifetime Kit: www.healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR3465.htm
High Blood Pressure (HBP) is a major contributor to kidney failure.
Diabetes is proliferating
Diet & exercise can help to reduce the effects of HBP and Diabetes.
If you have HBP & Diabetes in your family, get a check up; know your numbers for each. Keep an updated record.
If your blood pressure is high, work at lowering it. Walk briskly everyday for
at least 20 mins. African-Americans are 17 times more likely than Caucasians to develop hypertension (HBP)
Be proactive with & about your health. Take good care of yourself.
More Diversity is Needed in Organ, Tissue, & Bone Marrow Donation
- A shortage of organs donated by minorities contributes to a longer waiting period for many minorities.
- Fewer minorities are eligible to become living donors; however, this is not necessarily because of inequity in the system. Please learn more about this!
- Minorities can help themselves greatly by becoming better informed, more proactive, and more effective advocates for themselves. This is YOUR life!
The longer the patient waits for a transplant, the greater the risk of dying before the
organ can be found. Please become an organ & tissue donor. Help to SAVE Lives!
One person of any race, gender or ethnicity can donate organs and save up to 9 people. Tissues from one person can enhance the quality of life for 50!
Many African-Americans & Hispanics in CT have had successful transplants and are
living healthy & productive lives.
Post-transplant recipients in Greater New Haven vary from 5 months to 38 years & going! Organ transplants work for many.
Watch "21st Century Conversations" w/N'Zinga on your local access channel for educational programs on organ donation & transplantation.
Knowledge IS Power! Get informed about this life-saving topic- you can only benefit!
Transplant information resources: |
Thanks be to a donor family in 1988; their gift of a donated heart gave my friend 18 additional years on this earth. She was able to see her children become adults.
You can make a difference; sign your donor card and tell your family of your decision. One complete donor can save up to 9 lives with organs and enhance the quality of life for 50-60 people through tissue graphs. Become an organ & tissue donor.
There are many transplant recipients in your town, in your child's school, and all around CT.
However, for transplants to continue to be available to the many in our community who become
gravely ill at a young age, we need to also have organ & tissue donors.
Visit www.unos.org and learn more about the life-saving miracles of organ & tissue donation and transplantation. Read about a local recipient whose brother gave him a kidney. For the past 7 years, Miguel lives without being on dialysis. African-Americans and Latinos are more affected by kidney disease due to high blood pressure and diabetes.
To get a speaker for: your church, school, Boys or Girls Scout Troupe, business or community
organization, or to get literature sent to your organization, call New England Organ Bank at
800-446-6362, or call LifeChoice, Hartford. There is no charge for this valuable education program.
Read about Alonzo Mourning and his bout with kidney disease; Alonzo had a kidney transplant in
2004. Learn more at: www.sw.org.
Potential transplant recipients must learn to be good advocates for themselves, and form
effective partnerships with their transplant team. There are two transplant centers in CT -
Yale Transplant Center & Hartford Hospital Transplant Center.
Sources:
- (OPTN) THE ORGAN PROCUREMENT AND TRANSPLANTATION NETWORK
- (UNOS) UNITED NETWORK FOR ORGAN SHARING, 2005CQ RESEARCHER, 2005
- (HRSA)
HEALTH RESOURCES & SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
- (MOTTEP) MINORITY ORGAN TISSUE TRANSPLANT EDUCATION PROGRAM
- Americans continue to strongly support the concept of donating organs or tissues for
transplantation. The proportion of survey respondents who said they support or strongly support
organ donation rose from 93% in 1993 to 95% in 2005; however, effective & timely education and
prior discussion seem to be at the heart of following through on donation at the time of death.
- The Gallup Organization's Report, 2005 National Survey of Organ and Tissue Donation Attitudes
and Behaviors, is available to download from the Division of Transplantation's website: organdonor.gov/survey2005/. The report is also accessible through the HRSA News Room website: http://newsroom.hrsa.gov/.
If you have questions, please contact Madeleine Hess at 301-443-6866.
Be An Organ Donor. Save Lives!
We Need More Organ Donors. Don’t take your organs to Heaven; you will not need them there, but there are thousands who need and can use your organs here on earth!
In CT you can join the DMV Donor Registry by indicating it on your license.
Many people die because they cannot get a donated kidney. Many people die tragically; sign a donor card and give the gift of life. Become an organ donor.
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