The August issue of Inside HRSA features a national ceremony held last month to honor organ and tissue donors and a new database that identifies initiatives to improve the quality of care HRSA’s grantees provide. HRSA’s call for more grant reviewers is also discussed, as is the recent meeting in Washington of the agency’s public housing primary care grantees. Other stories cover the new Federal ID card that all employees must obtain and the happy tale of two graduates of the HRSA Scholars program who found more than careers at the Parklawn building. And as with every issue, the August edition gives you a snapshot of current news and events and staff on the move. Inside HRSA is posted on the HRSA News Room.
The National SIDS & Infant Death Project IMPACT supports state and local infant death programs through sharing information, promoting policy and legislative changes, building upon resources, and fostering partnerships and communication.
On Monday, Oct 3rd, 2005 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) launched a new website entitled Health Data for All Ages: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health_data_for_all_ages.htm
This website is a combination of several other NCHS websites that provided interactive online data tables, including Healthy Women: State Trends in Health and mortality.
The new site contains data tables on a wide variety of topics:
Folic Acid linked to Birth Weight - Mothers-to-be with lower levels of the vitamin folate in their body during early pregnancy are more likely to have low weight babies, research suggests.