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Project Access: Improving Care for Children with Epilepsy in Rural Communities (1 User Rating) Project Access was created to increase access to comprehensive and coordinated health care services for children and youth with epilepsy residing in medically underserved and rural areas. Nine states are working... Faculty Yris Lance, MA, CNPM, CSSI, CMSI Tashi Chodon, BSN, MPH

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CPE, CNE Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Apr 1, 2013 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

West Nile Virus Neuroinvasive Disease (0 User Ratings) The West Nile Virus infection has in recent years been the most common cause of epidemic encephalitis in the United States. Because of this rise in the number of case there is a need for neurologists to... Faculty Kenneth Tyler, MD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Mar 25, 2013 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Developing Collaborations in the Rural Latino Communities and building Relationships Between Rural African American Women with HIV Disease Living in the Southeastern United States (1 User Rating) Depression is one of the most common psychological outcomes of HIV disease, particularly among rural African-American women. Although overt forms of HIV-related stigma have reduced considerably over time,... Faculty Sara J. Corwin, MPH, PhD Alexia Eslan, MBA

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CPE, CNE Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Feb 17, 2013 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

15th Annual Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference: Conference Welcome (0 User Ratings) The Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference is one of the National Rural Health Association’s fastest growing conferences.  One of the only meetings in the nation to focus on rural... Faculty

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Removing Access & Utilization Barriers to Oral Health Services for African-Americans Living with HIV/AIDS (0 User Ratings) South Carolina currently ranks 8th in the nation in cervical cancer mortality.  The rates of incidence and mortality form cervical cancer and HIV infection are disproportionately higher in Orangeburg and... Faculty Minnijuan W. Flournoy, MPH, PhD Amy B. Martin, DrPH

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Health Reform: Are we there Yet? (0 User Ratings) The session will look at key 2009 policy changes and also provide an overview of regulatory and legislative issues impacting rural health care. Hear the latest news on the policy front and learn how to best serve... Faculty Maggie Elehwany, JD

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Rural Infrastructure, Rural Economic Development, and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (0 User Ratings) Hear how USDA Rural Development increases economic opportunity and helps improve the quality of life for rural Americans. Faculty Victor Vasquez, BS, MPA

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Gender-Specific Approaches to Best Practices in HIV Service Delivery (0 User Ratings) Women represent a growing number of individuals living with HIV/AIDS in the United States. Recent studies indicate that HIV is increasingly affecting women, adolescents, and minorities in rural and Southern... Faculty Mary L. Bowers, MSW

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United States - Mexico Border Health Commision (2 User Ratings) Hear about critical areas of rural economic development, social determinants of health and non-traditional entities such as transportation, commerce, labor and housing, and critical components of healthy rural... Faculty Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS

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VHA Office of Rural Health (0 User Ratings) About 3 million Veterans enrolled in the VA Health Care System live in rural areas. These rural Veterans sometimes cannot find a way to travel to see a doctor or other health care workers. Rural Veterans might... Faculty Anselm A. Beach, MS

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Primary Care Pharmacy (1 User Rating) It is no surprise that Nonprescription (Over-the-Counter, OTC) medications and products are flourishing in availability and use across America.  This is evident by the multiple retail pharmacies that are... Faculty Melanie Mabins, PharmD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CPE Credit Amount: 1.25 Type: Audio Webcast Expires: Dec 15, 2012 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents (2 User Ratings) Obesity has become a national issue.  Kentucky, specifically, ranks in the top 10 states for obesity and sedentary lifestyle, in addition to diabetes.  Type 2 diabetes used to be “adult onset... Faculty Holly Divine, PharmD, CGP, CDE

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Updates in Hypertension Management: What to Expect from JNC VIII (12 User Ratings) A recent study from the NIH indicates that there are 50 million or more Americans have high BP warranting some form of treatment. Periodically there are new guidelines released designed to increase awareness,... Faculty Steven Dunn, PharmD, BCPS

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Innovations in Tobacco Treatment: Tobacco-free Health Care Systems (1 User Rating) Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke or passive smoke, is a mixture of the smoke given off by the burning end of tobacco products and the smoke exhaled by smokers. Approximately 50,000... Faculty Ellen Hahn, DNS, RN

Activity Details Credit Types: CME Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Dec 10, 2011 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Rheumatology Highlights Newsletter (EULAR 2008) (3 User Ratings) Rheumatology Highlights, a CME-accredited educational program, presents a carefully constructed report from a major international conference and is developed to equip readers with practical knowledge of... Faculty Roy M. Fleischmann, MD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CPE, ANCC Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: PDF Expires: Sep 30, 2011 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Positive Pulse : Expert Commentaries From 2009: Year in Review (0 User Ratings) There are currently an estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV in the United States, with approximately 56,000 new cases annually, according to the latest estimates of the Centers for Disease Control... Faculty Sally Hodder, MD Paul E. Sax, MD

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Positive Pulse: Expert Commentaries From ICAAC 2009 (0 User Ratings) The Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) is one of the leading scientific conferences covering research into the pathogenesis and treatment of infectious diseases. Coming as... Faculty Sally Hodder, MD Paul E. Sax, MD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CNE Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: PDF Expires: Nov 17, 2010 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Faculty Feud: Current Concepts in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (0 User Ratings) Clinicians who diagnose and treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), including cardiologists, pulmonologists, rheumatologists, and critical care physicians and nurses, confront a range of issues concerning... Faculty Nicholas Hill, MD Ronald J. Oudiz, MD Robert T. Zamanian, MD, FCCP Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, MD, MSc Myung H. Park, MD, FACC

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CNE Credit Amount: 1.50 Type: PDF Expires: Nov 2, 2010 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Positive Pulse: Breaking News in HIV Management (0 User Ratings) Although substantial progress has been made in terms of the development of antiretroviral therapies and making them available to patients with HIV, many challenges remain in terms of when to initiate therapy and... Faculty Sally Hodder, MD Paul E. Sax, MD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME, CNE Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: PDF Expires: Oct 6, 2010 Cost: Free E-mail Begin

Pandemic Influenza 2009-2010 (4 User Ratings) 2009 H1N1 (referred to as “swine flu” early on) is a new influenza virus causing illness in people. This new virus was first detected in people in the United States in April 2009. This virus is... Faculty Christopher T. Nelson, MD

Activity Details Credit Types: CME Credit Amount: 1.00 Type: Video Webcast Expires: Sep 28, 2010 Cost: Free E-mail Begin