http://www.womenshealth.gov/WHW/
http://www.womenshealth.gov/whw/about/checkupday.cfm

Mother’s Day is a good lead into National Women’s Health Week, which runs from May 11 through May 17 this year.

After celebrating Mother’s Day, encourage your mom to get healthy by increasing her activity level, making healthier food choices, getting regular check-ups and preventative screenings, and avoiding risky behaviors. Visit USA.gov’s link to WomensHealth.gov to find events in your area and get resources on staying healthy.

Join other women in the week’s National Women’s Check-Up Day, Monday, May 12^th. National Women’s Check-Up Day is a nationwide effort, coordinated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health, to:

1. Encourage women to visit health care professionals to receive or schedule a checkup.

2. Promote regular check-ups as vital to the early detection of heart disease,

It is important for women to get regular check-ups because:

• Screening tests, such as mammograms and Pap smears, can find diseases early, when they are easier to treat.
• Some women need certain screening tests earlier, or more often, than others.
• Many of the leading causes of death among women can be successfully prevented or treated if the warning signs are caught early enough.

En español : http://www.usa.gov/gobiernousa/Salud-Nutricion-seguridad/Salud/Grupos.shtml

During National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, this May, USA.gov News highlights the benefits of exercise and the value of participating in sports.

It is important for all Americans to participate in activities that help maintain a healthy lifestyle. Outdoor activities such as walking, running, swimming, and biking are good for the mind, body, and soul. Regular physical activity and healthy eating habits can help reduce stress and lower the risk for many chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and depression.

National Physical Fitness and Sports Month is the perfect time to rise to the National Challenge of getting more fit. For those just starting an exercise program, the challenge is to be active for five days a week.

Visit the President’s Challenge for help getting started, logging your activity, and earning awards. You’ll find guidance for kids, teens, adults, and seniors, and can see how your state is measuring up in the fitness challenge.

Plastics and their possible health effects are in the news. Check out Questions and Answers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Also, learn more by reading the latest news.

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) Draft Brief On Bisphenol A (BPA)

Federal Report Looks at Risks from Plastics Chemical(04/18/2008, American Cancer Society News Center) http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Federal_Report_Looks_at_Risks_from_Plastics_Chemical.asp

http://nnlm.gov/ep/2008/04/23/service-continuity-planning/

by Dan Wilson

Click on the link below to view a PowerPoint presentation on service continuity planning. As the title implies, the presentation is designed to be a simple, relatively quick, approach to creating a service continuity plan. The content is based on the eight-step approach to service continuity planning document that can be found by clicking on the Service Continuity Planning tab beneath the title banner.

PowerPoint Presentation (for Office 2007): simplified-approach-to-service-continuity-planning

Slide 5 instructs that for state information on preparing for emergencies, go to: http://www.ready.gov/america/local/index.html and click on your state. See display below.

The May issue of NIH News in Health, the monthly newsletter bringing you practical health news and tips based on the latest NIH research, is now online at http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/.

In this issue of NIH News in Health you’ll find:

Frightened of Food: Living with Food Allergies
Imagine what life would be like if you had to constantly check out the ingredients in your favorite foods to make sure your life wasn’t in danger after eating even a tiny bit. For some people with severe food allergies, that’s become their way of life.
full story

Of Air and Asthma: Air Pollution’s Effects
A growing number of Americans are sniffling and suffering with allergies and asthma. If you’re 1 of the 23 million Americans who suffer from asthma, you might get some relief by taking steps to reduce indoor allergen levels and modifying your lifestyle to avoid the ill effects of air pollution.
full story

Health Capsules:

• Keeping Off Lost Weight
• Older Corneas Can Make Good Transplants
• Featured Web Site: Gear Up!

Click here to download a PDF version for printing.

NHLBI Health Information Network
hin@mail.nhlbi-nih.info

High blood pressure (HBP) affects more than 65 million-or 1 in 3-American adults. HBP often has no warning signs or symptoms. Once it occurs, it usually lasts a lifetime. Uncontrolled high blood pressure can lead to heart and kidney disease, stroke, and blindness.

Take the opportunity in May to get your blood pressure checked and learn more about HBP, how it affects the body, and how to control high blood pressure. Here are some resources from the NHLBI that can help you get started.

Educate Patients, Diagnose, and Treat HBP - Materials for Health Professionals

• Check out the Mission Possible Web site’s Activity Ideas page http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/mission/partner/ideas.htm
• Utilize the Pocket Guide to Blood Pressure Management in Children. Available at http://emall.nhlbihin.net/product2.asp?sku=07-5268 for $1.50 each
• Download The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure - Complete Report at http://emall.nhlbihin.net/product2.asp?sku=04-5230
  See the section on Questions To Ask Your Doctor If You Have High Blood Pressure

Take a Look at Materials for Patients and the Public

• Visit HBP Internet sites:
  • Your Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure Web site http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp
  • NHLBI’s Diseases and Conditions Index article on HBP http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/
    Hbp/HBP_WhatIs.html
• Order Your Guide to Lowering Your Blood Pressure with DASH for $3.50 each at http://emall.nhlbihin.net/product2.asp?sku=06-4082
• Don’t Miss the Recipes for Heart Health starting on page 45. Try vegetarian spaghetti sauce tonight!

Order My Blood Pressure Wallet Card for free for a single copy* at http://emall.nhlbihin.net/product2.asp?sku=03-5068 Additional copies are 25¢ each
See the section on Questions To Ask Your Doctor If You Have High Blood Pressure

Try adjusting the default bottom page margin to 0.50″. You can also adjust the top, left, and right margin settings if needed. In Internet Explorer 7.x, from the printer icon on the command bar, select page setup. In Internet Explorer 6.x and Firefox 2.x, select file, page setup.

Note: You may be limited by your printer as to how small you can make the margins.

Try adjusting the text size smaller. (View, text size)

Another fix involved installing the barcode font. The barcode prints in less vertical space than the ‘text only’ equivalent. See instructions for downloading the barcode font at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/docline/doclinebarcodes_withheader.html, or click on the help link at the top of the DOCLINE screen.

If only the browser footer prints on the second page, you can modify the header and footer settings to remove either or both. In Internet Explorer 7.x, from the printer icon on the command bar, select page setup. In Internet Explorer 6.x, select file, page setup. Delete the entries in the header and footer fields. In Firefox, select file, page setup. Click on the margins and header/footer tab and then click in the header and footer fields and select –blank– using the pull down arrow.

This information was taken from the FAQ at:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/doc_print_receipt_page.html

Against the Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health

Against the Odds focuses on how individuals and communities, in collaboration with scientists, advocates, governments and international organizations, have made and are making a difference in the health of people around the globe.

The exhibit presents a look at the public health problems posed by Hurricane Katrina. It showcases the barefoot doctors program, which trained over one million young people to treat the common ailments of residents of rural China in the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition also profiles a campaign for oral rehydration in Bangladesh that was so successful that it has been adopted in Afghanistan as well. In another example of nation-to-nation collaboration, “Against the Odds” shows how the Pholela Health Center in South Africa inspired the community health center movement in the U.S.

Videocast of the opening:
http://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?File=14435

The exhibition web site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/againsttheodds/introduction.html

The new public face of HHSs Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, known as CRISP may be accessed by going to http://report.nih.gov/ and clicking on “Search FundedScientific Projects”, or by going directly to http://report.nih.gov/crisp.aspx. Bookmarking this site will provide you access to the enhanced features as they come on-line.

The new system will continue to provide the same ability to search NIH-funded research but eventually will include more information associated with funded projects, including budget information and links to publications and patents resulting from NIH-funded research.

In addition, the new version of CRISP on the Web will offer a new way of searching for grants and contract portfolios that reflects current research investments in specific diseases and other conditions, and research areas.

In the past, users have searched CRISP using terms that were manually indexed for each abstract. Indexing for Fiscal Year 2008 will be automated to provide a more extensive and flexible set of search options.

April 28, 2008

Dear Members of the NIH Research Community:

I am writing to remind you that the mandatory NIH Public Access Policy (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html) applies to final peer-reviewed manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. Making published research funded by NIH accessible to everyone, including health care providers, patients, educators and scientists, helps advance science and improve human health. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal, and I appreciate your efforts to make the NIH Public Access Policy successful.

The NIH Public Access Policy implements Division G, Title II, Section 218 of PL 110-161 (see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm), which was signed into law late last year. Compliance with this Policy is a legal requirement and a term and condition for all active grants and contracts awarded as of April 7, 2008. Failure to comply may trigger one or more enforcement actions, depending on the severity and duration of the non-compliance.

Please see the Public Access Web site for the tools you need to comply with the Policy. The Web site houses Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), training information, and other resources.

To ensure compliance with the Policy, please remember to:

Address Copyright - Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreements allow your paper to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy.

Submit Papers upon Acceptance for Publication

1.    Some journals will submit the final published article on your behalf, without your involvement. See http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm for a list of these journals.>

2.    For any journal other than those on this list, please:

a.    When submitting a paper for publication, inform the journal that the final peer-reviewed manuscript is subject to the NIH Public Access Policy.

b.    Make sure that any copyright transfer or other publication agreement allows the final peer-reviewed manuscript to be submitted to NIH in accordance with the Policy. For more information, see the FAQ Whose approval do I need to submit my article to PubMed Central? and consult with your Institution.

c.    Submit the final peer-reviewed manuscript to NIH upon acceptance for publication at http://www.nihms.nih.gov/. See the Submission Process for more information.

Cite Papers

• When citing your NIH-funded papers in NIH applications, proposals or progress reports, please include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) for each paper.
• NIH will monitor compliance through citations. Effective May 25, 2008, when your NIH Program Officer reviews your progress report or application, he or she will be expecting a PMCID in the citation of every applicable paper that arose out of your NIH funding, or a manuscript submission system reference number (NIHMSID) if the PMCID has not been issued. See Section C of our FAQ for examples.
• If you publish through a journal listed under http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process_journals.htm, there might be a slight delay in assignment of a PMCID. That is okay. We have signed agreements with these journals that allow NIH to resolve submission with them without your involvement. To facilitate your Program Officer’s job, we ask that you indicate ‘PMC Journal- In Process’ until the PMCID is available.
• The NIH Public Access Policy is a legal requirement and represents an important opportunity for science and medicine. We are very interested in your feedback on the Policy and are soliciting input through a request for information from March 31, 2008 to May 31, 2008. Please send any comments or suggestions to http://publicaccess.nih.gov/comments.htm.

Sincerely,

Norka Ruiz Bravo, PhD

NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research