May, 2010     Volume

 
Tweens challenged by grown-up malady: Breast cancer

Taylor Thompson of Little Rock, Arkansas, also had an aggressive form of breast cancer, one that has a 98 percent chance of returning. It required surgery in June.

They're two young women fighting breast cancer. Or rather, two girls: Hannah is 11. Taylor is 13.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/26/tweens.breast.cancer/index.html?eref=rss_health

Get in Touch Girls Program for Breast Cancer Awareness

The Get In Touch Girls’ Program & Daisy Wheel© was developed specifically for girls in grades 5-12 to educate them on the importance of, and how to do a breast self-exam - for life. In collaboration with a medical consulting board that includes a school nurse, a pediatrician, an oncologist, a breast surgeon and a radiologist, GIT has developed the Daisy Wheel. This highly innovative tool will be introduced by health educators to girls beginning in 5th grade, when introducing topics of hygiene and the girls’ changing bodies, and will be taught annually through 12th grade. These "Eight Tips" for "Eight-Straight" years of the Girls’ Program will give the girls the foundation they need to practice BSE – for life.

http://www.getintouchfoundation.org/gitgirls.htm

Antibiotic Resistance Still a Major Public Health Threat

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continues to present a major public health problem, said scientists gathering at one of the world's largest infectious diseases meetings Friday.

Chief among the concerns are resistant gram-negative bacteria and bacteria that appears to be infecting younger and otherwise healthier people. The troubling trend is compounded by another concerning fact: a paucity of new antibiotics coming down the pipeline, they added.

http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?docID=632622

Events

OSHNA Annual Conference, March 2011