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NCEH Past Spotlights
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Office of Global Health
The Office of Global Health (OGH) at NCEH/ATSDR is proud to announce the
redesigned and updated OGH website. By following the link, you will be able
to access information about NCEH/ATSDR international activities and
projects, Global Health Priorities, Global Environmental Health, and related
links to partners and international organizations. |
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Lead and Water
CDC has updated some Questions and Answers about lead in tap water.
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Dr.
Henry Falk has been appointed as the new director for the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health and
will continue as assistant administrator of the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry. ...
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2004 Newborn Screening and Genetic Testing Symposium
CDC and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) are
co-sponsoring a symposium May 3-6, 2004 at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia,
Atlanta, GA. Topics that will be addressed include state and national
newborn screening, genetic testing, policy issues important to public
health laboratories, and new laboratory technologies such as tandem
mass spectrometry, DNA analysis, and new immunoassays...
more |
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Winning with Asthma! - Fourth National Asthma Conference
Call for abstracts: The Conference Planning Committee is soliciting
abstracts for the conference held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Hotel, from April 14-16, 2004 ...more |
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Many
Voices - One Vision Environmental Public Health Tracking Conference
March 24-26, 2004, Wyndham Philadelphia at Franklin Plaza
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Sixth National
Environmental Public Health Conference:
"Preparing for the Environmental Public Health Challenges of the 21st Century"
December 3-5, 2003, Atlanta, GA |
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View the
questions and answers from CDC’s Public Health Training Network
Satellite Broadcast and Webcast: “Managing Rodents and
Mosquitoes Through Integrated Pest Management” – Originally Aired
September 18, 2003,
1:00-2:30 p.m. |
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Take steps now to protect your family
from the unseen danger of carbon monoxide. [Tome ahora las medidas
necesarias para proteger a su familia de los peligros invisibles
generados por el monóxido de carbono.]
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Floods:
A guide to your personal health and safety. [Inundación: una guía preventiva]
(English
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Español) |
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Hurricane Readiness: Tips for preparing for hurricanes & coping
with their aftermath. [Huracán:
guía preventiva]
(English
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en
Español) |
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Radiation
Emergencies - Learn how to prepare for and respond to a
radiation emergency. |
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Prevent
Heat-Related Illness and Death.
Heat-related illness is serious but preventable. Learn about the signs
and symptoms and how to prevent it. |
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Designing and Building
Healthy Places (http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces)
This new web site was developed by NCEH along with the National Center
on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, the National Center
for Injury Prevention and Control, and the National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. The site discusses the public
health implications of the interactions between people and the built
environment. |
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Waterborne Disease and Acts of Water
Terrorism: The New Role of the Physician as Front-line Responder
Wednesday, June 4, 2003,
Washington, DC
>> More info:
http://www.acpm.org/waterbornediseaseconference.htm |
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CDC to award funds for a
Public Health Laboratory Biomonitoring Implementation Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
will be awarding $5 million (subject to availability of funds) in
cooperative agreements under Program Announcement 03034, Public Health
Laboratory Biomonitoring Implementation Program. Ten awards are
currently anticipated. The goal of this program is to allow selected
recipients to implement and expand their state laboratory-based
biomonitoring programs to assess human exposure to environmental
toxicants, help prevent disease resulting from exposure to toxic
substances, and determine estimates of "background" exposure to
naturally occurring and industrial chemicals that have the potential
to cause harm. This program allows for the implementation of the
biomonitoring plans developed under Program Announcement 01072, Public
Health Laboratory Biomonitoring Planning Grant. |
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Information
for Incoming EIS Officers 2003
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Second
National Report on Human Exposure to
Environmental Chemicals
The Report is the
second in a series of publications that provide an ongoing
assessment of the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental
chemicals using biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the assessment of
human exposure to chemicals by measuring the chemicals or their
metabolites in human specimens such as blood or urine.
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Search the NCEH database of extramurally funded projects!
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Online
Library For Gulf War-Related Medical Research
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of
Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs announce the launch
of a centralized Internet site, known as Medsearch. The site is
designed to provide Gulf War veterans, their families and members of
the public easy access to Gulf War-related medical research. To
access the Medsearch Web site, log onto
http://www.GulfLINK.osd.mil/medsearch |
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CDC
Awards Funds for Environmental Public
Health Tracking The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has taken a significant step toward creating a
national environmental public health tracking network by awarding
$14.2 million in grants to 20 state and local health departments and
three schools of public health. The goal of CDC's
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program is to develop a
standards-based environmental public health tracking network that
allows direct electronic data reporting and linkage of health
effect, exposure and hazard data, which can operate with other
public health systems.
>>CDC
Media Relations Press Release |
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>>West
Nile Virus:
Avoid mosquito bites to avoid infection. Apply insect repellent
(follow product label precautions), stay indoors at dawn and dusk,
and wear long, loose clothing.
>>More
information |
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>>National Lead Poisoning Prevention
Week
October
20 - 26, 2002
Childhood lead poisoning is considered the most
preventable environmental disease of young children but almost 1 million children have
elevated blood lead levels. The national goal is to eliminate childhood lead poisoning in
the United States by 2010.
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>>Hanford
Thyroid Disease Study Final Report Released
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>>Cool
Tips For A Healthy Summer
Learn how to protect yourself and others from heat-related illness
and death |
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>>"A
Strategy to Revitalize Health Services in the United States"
We are pleased to present to you the draft document entitled A
Strategy to Revitalize Environmental Health Services in the United
States. This CDC strategy was developed in collaboration with
several internal and external partners, including state and local
health departments and schools of public health. |
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>>World
Asthma Day
May 7, 2002, marks the 4th annual celebration of World Asthma Day
and the kickoff to Asthma and Allergy Month. This spotlight offers
information on the burden of asthma and on ways to control it;
CDC’s National Asthma Control Program, and resources for
additional information. |
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>>Enhancing
Environmental Health Practice in the 21st Century:
This landmark broadcast on May 9, 1:00-2:30 p.m., includes
presentations and interactive discussion on environmental health
services. |
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>>A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Tests |
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