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Here you will find topics ranging from current events that affect public health in Arizona to overall information about the Arizona Department of Health Services

Court Provides More Clarity Regarding Marijuana Extracts

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:45-07:00 March 23rd, 2014|General|

Judge Cooper from Maricopa County Superior Court ruled on Friday that: "The language of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act and its ballot materials make clear that proponents and votes intended the Act to provide access to medicine for debilitating medical conditions without fear of criminal prosecution. The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act does not limit the form [...]

Send Your Teen to CDC’s Disease Detective Camp this Summer

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:45-07:00 March 21st, 2014|General|

The CDC just began accepting applications for their annual summer Disease Detective Camp. The Camp is open to motivated students who’ll be high-school juniors or seniors during the 2014-2015 school year. Over the course of five days, campers take on the role of disease detectives. Campers can expect a variety of experiences including re-created outbreaks, [...]

New Phrase for the Week: Sleep Hygiene

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:45-07:00 March 19th, 2014|General|

If you’re like my family, there are times when some of you don’t get enough sleep. In fact about 30% of Americans don’t get the 7 to 8 hours of sleep that we need to stay healthy. Now that everybody is plugged into an electronic device these days (especially teens) is seems to be getting [...]

Health Profession Summer Program Opportunity for AZ High Schoolers

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:46-07:00 March 5th, 2014|General|

Have you ever wondered — Why do people get sick? How can we prevent the spread of disease? What do doctors REALLY do? If so, the U of A College of Medicine in Phoenix has a summer program for you! Be a part of Med-Start Phoenix, a two-week day program with a fast paced curriculum [...]

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USDA Announces New School Nutrition Guidelines

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:48-07:00 February 28th, 2014|General, Prevention|

The USDA announced proposed new guidelines for school wellness policies as part of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 this week. The new policies set goals in nutrition, physical activity, and other school-based activities promoting student wellness. Additionally, the school wellness policies include a guideline on food marketing in schools, setting a standard that [...]

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Please Help Supply Blessing Bags

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:50-07:00 February 20th, 2014|General|

Patients and Staff at the Arizona State Hospital are working with the Phoenix Rescue Mission again this year to create Blessing Bags. They're large gallon sized Ziploc bags filled with basic necessities which will be handed out by the Phoenix Rescue Mission to the homeless. But they need some donations to get going. The Hospital team [...]

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Arizona’s First Ever State Health Assessment

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:50-07:00 February 13th, 2014|General|

Today we published Arizona’s first ever comprehensive State Health Assessment. The objective of the State Health Assessment is to give Arizona’s public health and health care systems a clear tool to help drive future decision-making and resource allocation as we collectively design and implement evidence-based interventions to improve health and wellness outcomes across Arizona. The [...]

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Car Seat Collection Launch

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:51-07:00 February 11th, 2014|General|

The child safety seat exchange program we established as cooperative partnership via the Arizona-Mexico Commission last summer is moving forward. We’ve established a new partnership with Rural Metro and Southwest Ambulance to serve as collection sites for people who want to donate their gently used car seat that will be donated to families in Sonora. [...]

Food for the Olympians

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:51-07:00 February 7th, 2014|General|

As the Olympics begin, Chef and Registered Dietitian Allen Tran’s words come to mind, “nutrition can make a good athlete great or a great athlete good”. I think his view holds some truth for all of us. Allen knows because he is the High-Performance Chef for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. He is in [...]

New Medical Marijuana Rules Up for Public Comment

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:52-07:00 February 5th, 2014|General|

Last summer a Superior Court judge decided that a portion of our medical marijuana regulations are unreasonable because our regulations didn’t have a process for dispensary registration certificate holders to renew their dispensary registration certificate if they didn't earn their approval to operate within 1 year. This week we posted new draft rules (and an Online Survey to get [...]

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