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3/10- Women & Girls HIV Awareness Day
3/18- I&E Committee Call
3/20- MPFA Conference call
4/21-22- Reducing the Risk Training
4/23-24- Montana Family Planning Training |
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Quote of the Week
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
~ Harold B. Melchart |
| Montana Family Planning Training | | |
April 23-24, 2014 ~
Holiday Inn Downtown ~ Helena, Montana
The Montana Family Planning Training will be held in Helena, MT on April 23-24 at the Holiday Inn Dowtown. There is an optional skills building session prior to the conference, clinicians only, that will include Nexplanon training and Vulvar Dermatological review.
For more information on Keynote Speakers go to the Montana Family Planning Training Website and check out the agenda. |
| Teen Pregnancy Prevention Implementation | | |
Implementation findings and lessons learned
The Journal of Adolescent Health just released a special issue supplement titled "Implementing Evidence-based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Legislation to Practice," featuring implementation findings and lessons learned from OAH's TPP Program. Each paper in the supplement addresses a unique topic in implementation science while reinforcing common themes, such as the importance of planning, monitoring fidelity, and assessing and building capacity. The supplement also includes topics such as creating standardized performance measures, the medical accuracy review process, working with tribal populations, working with parenting teens, ensuring fidelity to program models, training staff members, and establishing working relationships and support in communities. The full journal issue will be available via open access for the next six months (until 8/19/2014). |
| Clinician Recommendation Key to HPV Vaccine Coverage | | |
Mary Ann Moon, Family Practice News Digital Network
The leading factor preventing young patients from receiving the HPV vaccine was not cost, access, or safety. Here's what was-and why you have the power to change the equation.
FULL STORY >> |
| Teen Dating Violence | |
 Teen dating violence
The good folks at the Family and Youth Services Bureau National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NCFY) have a twofer for you this week:
- New resources on teen childbearing in rural America.
Along with Break the Cycle, NCFY is hosting a twitter chat focused on collaborating on teen dating violence and pregnancy prevention. The chat takes place on February 27, at 2pm EST. To join, please use the hashtag #NCFYchat. |
| ICD-10 Videos | |
ICD-10 Videos
The videos on this page have been developed under MLN Connects™, a part of the Medicare Learning Network® (MLN)* many of which were developed as part of the CMS MLN Connects National Provider Call Program. Please visit the CMS YouTube Channel to view the catalog of educational videos available on a wide range of healthcare related topics.
* The Medicare Learning Network® (MLN), a registered trademark of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is the brand name for official information health care professionals can trust.
| 2014-01-14 | ICD-10 Coding Basics | | 2013-08-28 | ICD-10: Implementation for Physicians, Partial Code Freeze, and MS-DRG Conversion Project | | 2013-08-22 | ICD-10 Basics MLN Connects National Provider Call | | 2013-04-18 | Begin Transitioning to ICD-10 in 2013 | | 2012-10-25 | Preparing Physicians for ICD-10 Implementation National Provider Call | | 2011-11-17 | ICD-10 Implementation Strategies and Planning National Provider Call | | 2011-08-03 | ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians National Provider Call | | 2011-08-03 | ICD-10 Implementation Strategies for Physicians and Non-physician Practitioners, Dr. Daniel Duvall | | 2011-05-18 | CMS ICD-10 Conversion Activities National Provider Call |
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| Can Daily Aspirin Cut Ovarian Cancer Risk? | | |
Can daily aspirin cut ovarian cancer risk?
By: Miranda Hester
A daily regimen of low-dose (<100 mg) aspirin may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by 20%, according to a study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Researchers at the National Cancer Institute analyzed pool data from 12 population-based case-control studies of ovarian cancer from 1993 and 2007, which included 7,776 case patients and 11,843 control patients. Odds ratios (ORs) for the association between medication use and invasive epithelial ovarian cancer were estimated for each study using logistic regression and combined using random effects meta-analysis. Frequency, dose, and duration of aspirin use and ovarian cancer risk associations were also reviewed.
Aspirin use was associated with a lower risk of ovarian cancer (OR = 0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84 to 0.99). Non-aspirin non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) had a similar, but not statistically significant, result and no association was found with acetaminophen. In the 7 studies with frequency of dose data, the strongest reduced risk was seen in women who had a daily regimen (OR = 0.80; 95% CI = 0.67 to 0.96). In the 3 studies with dose information, low-dose aspirin was strongly associated with reduced risk (OR = 0.66; 95% CI = 0.53 to 0.83), whereas high-dose (≥500mg) NSAIDs had the strongest association with reduced risk (OR = 0.76; 95% CI = 0.64 to 0.91).
The investigators concluded that low-dose, daily aspirin could reduce risk of ovarian cancer by 20% to 34%. They noted, however, that further study is required to explore the risk-benefit balance and to understand the mechanism by which aspirin may reduce ovarian cancer risk. |
| Webinar Series on Girls' Behavioral Health | | |
New Webinar Series on Girls' Behavioral Health
This February, SAMHSA will launch the Girls Matter! webinar series to discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies for supporting girls. "We know that professionals working with adolescents are eager to learn more about the unique needs of girls ages 12-18 and how these unique needs impact their behavioral health and development," said SAMHSA Principal Deputy Administrator and Associate Administrator for Women's Services, Kana Enomoto. Girls Matter! features a 90-minute webinar each month covering a related behavioral health topic.
- The Girl in the Mirror: Behavioral Health Challenges of Adolescent Girls (Thursday, March 13, 2014)
- Girls and Substance Use: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities (Tuesday, April 22, 2014)
- Digital Girls: Confession, Connection, and Disconnection (Tuesday, May 20, 2014)
- Sanctuary and Supports for Girls in Crisis (Tuesday, June 10, 2014)
- The Power of Youth Development and Recovery Supports (Thursday, July 24, 2014)
Learn More about the webinar series and how to register. |
| National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day | | HIV Awareness. Take Action with Thunderclap!
National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is just two weeks away. To take action, we invite you to sign up for our HIV Awareness. Take Action! Thunderclap.
Not sure what Thunderclap is? It's a new online tool that allows National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day supporters (people like you!) to say something together. If enough people support our HIV Awareness. Take Action! Thunderclap, a message will blast out at exactly the same time on March 10, 2014. Signing up is easy; do it today!
- Click "Support with Twitter," "Support with Facebook," and/or "Support with Tumblr" and get the word out to your followers and friends to do the same.
- Visit www.womenshealth.gov/nwghaad for additional ideas on how you can take action.
- On Monday, March 10, 2014, watch as everyone's messages are shared at 12:00 p.m. EDT.
Your tweet or post could empower someone to get tested or to seek treatment if they are HIV positive. That's why we need your support.
Questions? Email us or visit our website. |
| LARC Program Offers Free CME Credit | | |
LARC Program Offers Free CME Credit
The LARC Program will host a free, accredited online webinar, Update on Long-Acting Reversible Contraception: Implant and IUDs later this month. The webinar, which is open to all, will give participants an opportunity to learn more about LARC methods and review the latest clinical guidance from ACOG on the contraceptive implant and IUDs. Topics that will be addressed include clinical effects and characteristics of LARC methods, and ACOG recommendations for LARC use by nulliparous women, adolescents, and women with a history of pelvic inflammatory disease. The live webinar will take place on Thursday, February 27th from 3:30-4:30 EST. To find out more and to register, please click here . If you are unable to join us for the live webinar, please check back for an archived version on the website after February 27th.
Please save the date for our next webinar on Thursday, March 27th from 1:00-2:00 PM EST, which will update providers on contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). |
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