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1. Director announces appointment of David M. Murray as Associate Director for Disease Prevention and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., announced today the appointment of David M. Murray, Ph.D., as Associate Director for Disease Prevention and Director of the Office of Disease Prevention (ODP). Dr. Murray is expected to join the NIH on September 23, 2012....
2. If You’re Feeling Anxious or Depressed, You Can Find Help More than 350,000 people took their own lives in the past year, and today we are losing more military soldiers to suicide than battle, according to Secretary of Army, John McHugh, who recently briefed America on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. This week is National Suicide Prevention Week, which helps raise awareness of the resources […]...
3. National Men’s Health Week 2010 As the resident male blogger here at Gov Gab, it’s my job to tell you that June is National Men’s Health Month and that today through Sunday is National Men’s Health Week. Signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, National Men’s Health Week always occurs the week before Father’s Day. The purpose of […]...
4. Air Quality Awareness Week Air Quality Awareness Week (April 30 – May 4) is a great opportunity to learn more about how your local air quality may affect your health. You may have heard references to “Code Orange” or “Code Red” air quality days during local weather reports. Air quality assessments are taken from the Air Quality Index (AQI), […]...
5. Test dapivirine vaginal ring for HIV prevention in women Researchers will launch a large, multinational clinical trial this month to test the effectiveness and extended safety of a vaginal ring containing an experimental antiretroviral drug to prevent HIV infection in women. With a projected 3,476 participants in five countries, the MTN 020 study, otherwise known as, “A Study to Prevent Infection with a Ring […]...
6. New dates. National Drug Facts Week begins Jan. 28, 2013 The third annual National Drug Facts Week will be held Jan. 28 through Feb. 3, 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today. This week-long observance will bring together teens and scientific experts in community events across the country to discuss scientific facts about drug abuse. […]...
7. Video: Suicide Prevention and Research NIMH researcher Dr. Jane Pearson talks about warning signs as well as progress in suicide prevention....
8. Poison Prevention – Medicare Medicine It’s one of those parenting nightmares – you find your baby sitting on the floor with an open bottle of medicine. My story went something like that, but instead of medicine, my 1 year old got her hands on a bottle of cleaning solution for our CD’s. ...
9. White House Names a “Champion of Change” for its Suicide Prevention Efforts The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was named by the White House as a “Champion of Change” on August 25, 2011, for its efforts in supporting research on suicide prevention....
10. Second Annual National Drug Facts Week Begins Oct. 31st Teens and drug experts will connect for the second annual National Drug Facts Week, held Oct. 31 through Nov. 6. This week-long observance will bring together teens and scientific experts in community events across the country to discuss scientific facts about drug abuse. It is sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a […]...
11. Medicare: Discontinues Tenofovir Vaginal Gel in ‘VOICE’ HIV Prevention Study A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an antiretroviral-containing oral tablet or vaginal gel can prevent HIV infection in women is being modified because an interim review found that the gel, an investigational microbicide, was not effective among study participants....
12. Men’s Health Week Men’s Health Week is a good reminder to get preventive care and screenings and to pursue medical treatment when experiencing symptoms....
13. VOICE HIV prevention study in women A large-scale clinical trial evaluating whether daily use of an oral tablet or vaginal gel containing antiretroviral drugs can prevent HIV infection in women is being modified because an interim review found that the study cannot show that one of the study products, oral tenofovir, marketed under the trade name Viread, is effective....
14. Medicare Card, Money Smart Week: April 21-28 During Money Smart Week, free classes and activities are available in more than 30 states to help consumers manage their personal finances....
15. Child Abuse Prevention Month Child Abuse Prevention Month...