TABLE OF CONTENTS 2019

Foreword

• Listening and Working Together for Healthier and Longer Lives

Special Features

• Service to America Medals Awarded to Three HHS Employees
• CDC’s Tips From Former Smokers Anti-smoking campaign launches seventh year
• HHS announces the availability of $260 million to fund the Title X family planning program

Addiction

• HHS Awards Over $1 Billion to Combat the Opioid Crisis
• ​Keeping Faith, Bringing Hope and Healing in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis
• Integrating Infectious Disease Prevention and Treatment into the Opioid Response​
• Notification of patient overdose deaths reduces clinician opioid prescriptions
• Methadone and buprenorphine reduce risk of death after opioid overdose

Cardiology

• ​ECG Abnormalities Warn of Heart-Related Risks in Older Women
• Smartphone-based ECG Arrhythmia Detection

Dermatology

• ​NIH-led research team develops predictor for immunotherapy response in melanoma
• The first 30 years of the American Academy of Dermatology skin cancer screening program
• NHLBI studies explore links between psoriasis and heart disease

Emergency

• ​More patients survive sudden cardiac arrest with new EMS technique

Endocrinology

• ​Native Americans Turning the Tide Against Diabetes
• New NIH reference book is one-stop resource for diabetes medical information

Environmental Health

• High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol Associated with Noisy Jobs
• Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks

Epidemiology

• Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US
• Tickborne Diseases Are Likely to Increase, Say NIAID Officials
• Can Natural Disasters Elevate Rabies Infections?​
• Breaking Down Barriers, Strengthening Rabies Diagnostic Capacity Internationally

Gastroenterology

• NIH researchers discover highly infectious vehicle for transmission of viruses among humans
• How a genetic variant may affect the gut barrier and contribute to inflammatory bowel disease

Immunizations

• Healthcare Providers A Strong Vaccination Recommendation can be a Game-Changer this Flu Season

Infection Prevention

• National Initiative to Prevent C diff Infection
• The Critical Issue Of Hand Hygiene

Infectious Diseases

• ​Dr. Hank Tomlinson Named New Director for CDC’s Division of Global HIV & TB
• HHS awards $2.34 billion in grants to help Americans access HIV AIDS care and medication
• CDC Has Updated Recommendations for Latent TB Infection and HIV
• Q&A: HIV and the Gut Microbiome​
• ​NIH experts call for transformative research approach to end tuberculosis
• NIH Statement on World Tuberculosis Day, 2018​
• Germs with Unusual Antibiotic Resistance Widespread in U.S.
• HHS sponsors its largest exercise for moving patients with highly infectious diseases
• New CDC Resources HIV & HCV Outbreak Detection and Response
• NIAID Funded Researchers Probe Potential TB Weaknesses
• Highly Pathogenic H7 Avian Influenza confirmed by USDA in a Commercial Flock in Lincoln County, Tennessee

Neurology

• ​4 Things Women Need to Know About Stroke
• Brain-scan guided emergency stroke treatment can save more lives
• Don't Ask, Don't Treat Insomnia Treatment​
• Scientists find a role for Parkinson’s gene in the brain
• Epilepsy study links mossy brain cells to seizures and memory loss

Nephrology

• HHS and American Society of Nephrology launch KidneyX
• Creating a Foundation for Potential New Kidney Cancer Therapies
• 25 years since discovery of first gene linked to kidney cancer

Nursing

• ​Nursing at the IHS Hospital Where She was Born

Nutrition

• NIH study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria​

Oncology

• Spotlight on Women's Health: An Interview About Thyroid Cancer
• Don’t Die of Embarrassment Get Screened for Colon Cancer​
• A physician faces her own ovarian cancer​
• Study Shows Experimental Screening Test Can Detect Endometrial and Ovarian Cancers
• Improving Cancer Control in Rural Communities

Ophthalmology

• New research sheds light on how UV rays may contribute to cataract

Pain Management

• ​Percutaneous Peripheral Nerve Stimulation in the Non-opioid Management of Acute and Chronic Pain
• A New Non-Opioid Approach Being Used to Treating Pain within the VA

Pediatrics

• ​About 3,500 babies in the US are lost to sleep-related deaths each year
• Asthma attacks declining among U.S. children

Pulmonology

• Genetics and pollution drive severity of asthma symptoms

Rheumatology

• Lupus Diagnosis and Treatment Progress
• Updated Estimates Suggest a Higher Number of U.S. Adults with Arthritis
• How a genetic variant may affect the gut barrier and contribute to inflammatory bowel disease

Safety

• Early Detection of Patient Deterioration Using Novel Monitoring System

Surgery

• ​NIH research program to explore the transition from acute to chronic pain​
• Can treatment during surgery reduce postoperative opioid use?

Urology

• ​Prostate cancer journey leads to immunotherapy
• The Prostate Cancer Foundation Announces Recipients of the 2018 PCF Young Investigator Awards

Wound Care

• International Awareness to Improve Management​
• Six WOC Nurses that inspire the Ostomy Community