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The US National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute Battles Chronic Disease In Developing Countries
The US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, which is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Chronic Disease, has decided to go forward strongly and improve its plan to target chronic diseases in developing countries by collaborating with a leading health and wellbeing corporation. Together, they plan to build numerous centers of excellence (COEs) across the world. The details of this partnership have been published in a comment Online First and in this week"s edition of The Lancet.
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Debate Surrounds Federal System That Rates Nursing Homes
A new federal rating system to track quality gives nursing homes mixed reviews. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed the Nursing Home Compare Web site, which compares the nation"s 15,600 homes. There were complaints that the old site was unmanageable.
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Number Of Abortion Procedures Continues To Decline In Minnesota And Wisconsin
The following summarizes news coverage of state abortion statistics in Minnesota and Wisconsin.~ Minnesota: The number of abortions performed in Minnesota decreased for the second consecutive year in 2008, according to an annual report from the state Department of Health, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports. Except for a one-time increase in 2006, the number of abortions in Minnesota has trended downward since a peak in 1980, when 19,028 procedures were performed. The new report found that 12,948 abortions were performed in the state in 2008, a decrease of 895 from 2007. Women ages 20 to 24 accounted for about one-third of the procedures, the most among any age group. The number of procedures among teenagers continued a decline that began in the 1990s but had leveled off slightly earlier this decade, the report found. The report also found that less than one-third of women reported using contraception and about one in seven was married at the time of conception (Von Sternberg, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 7/1).~ Wisconsin: Wisconsin abortion providers performed 8,229 procedures in 2008, the lowest number since the state began collecting statistics in 1974, according to an annual report by the state Department of Health Services, the AP/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. The number of abortions has declined annually since 2003, when 10,557 procedures were performed. State law requires abortion providers to provide DHS with the data. According to the report, slightly more than half of abortions took place in the first eight weeks of pregnancy. Women who had never been married accounted for about three-fourths of all procedures. The report found that 12% of abortions occurred among women ages 35 and older; 34% were among women ages 20 to 24; 11% were among women ages 18 and 19; and 6% were among girls ages 15 to 17. The number of abortions among minors decreased from 551 in 2007 to 500 in 2008, with parents providing consent in 452 of those cases (Richmond, AP/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 6/30).
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Environmental Health Biostatistician Whose Work Has Impacted Air Pollution Regulation Joins Harvard School Of Public Health

Francesca Dominici, PhD, a biostatistican whose work has affected air pollution regulation, has joined the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) as professor of biostatistics. Dominici comes from Johns Hopkins University, where she was a professor in the Department of Biostatistics. She focuses on developing new mathematical and statistical methods for identifying subtle but important health risks within complex databases. She is particularly interested in developing models to better understand the health effects of air pollution. She led the statistical analyses for the two large nationwide studies of particulate matter and ozone -- the National Morbidity and Mortality Study (NMMAPS) of daily air pollution and health in the largest U.S. cities, and the National Medicare Air Pollution Study (MCAPS), a study of acute and chronic exposure to air pollution. Her contributions have helped inform current air pollution regulation in the U.S. In addition, she has also focused on developing statistical tools to analyze patient safety data to reduce medical errors and has worked on methods to elucidate the epidemiology of smoking patterns. "Air pollution can cause disease and has a profound effect on life expectancy," said James H. Ware, PhD, Dean for Academic Affairs and Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics at HSPH. "Rigorous data are essential in helping us protect our society, particularly our most vulnerable populations. Dr. Dominici"s outstanding work has advanced the field. She has developed research methods involving enormous surveillance data sets to explore the environmental health impact of air pollution. She is also interested in applying these approaches to medical errors and other public health issues." Dominici earned her doctoral degree in statistics from the University of Padua, Italy. She is a winner of the prestigious Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association and the Rosenblith Award from the Health Effects Institute. She has served on multiple committees for the National Academy of Sciences. Harvard School of Public Health


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