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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
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