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ADHS Going Viral

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00 March 2nd, 2010|General, Uncategorized|

We’re coming up on the 3 millionth view of our hand only chest compression CPR video that we posted on the Arizona Department of Health Services channel. Technically, right now we’re at 2.8M views now. This is by far the most watched video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5huVSebZpM) on our YouTube channel. Close to 1M of those views are [...]

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Do You Know Your Blood Pressure?

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00 March 1st, 2010|General|

High blood pressure is at the source of roughly one in six deaths among adults annually. About one in three adult Arizonans have blood pressure that’s too high, putting huge economic demands on Medicaid, Medicare (AHCCCS) and our private health insurers (plus, of course, the loss of life). The Institute of Medicine put out a [...]

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Black History Month Celebration

By Will Humble| 2010-02-22T11:16:34-07:00 February 22nd, 2010|General|

Please try to carve out some time to celebrate ADHS' 7th Annual Black History Month event. The 2010 celebration will happen Thursday, February 25, from 11:00am – 1:00pm, in the parking lot west of 1740 Building . The theme is… “ Health Care… Where We’ve Been… and Where We’re Going”. We’ll take you back in [...]

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Baja Health Tourism

By Will Humble| 2010-02-22T11:07:15-07:00 February 22nd, 2010|General|

The Mexican Federal Government announced a new policy this week to promote medical tourism in Mexico. Medical tourism is when you go abroad for medical care. Their goal is to encourage U.S. residents (with an initial focus on the uninsured) to travel to Mexico for their medical needs, generating jobs and investment. Another objective is [...]

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Pressing Ahead

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00 February 19th, 2010|General, Uncategorized|

This is what I shared with ADHS staff earlier this week - "Thanks again for all of your hard and creative work over the last year. We’ve made a great deal of progress despite the complicated financial problems that the State has faced. I’m not just saying that- I know it’s true and so do [...]

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ADHS Electronic Updates

By Will Humble| 2010-02-18T08:29:02-07:00 February 18th, 2010|General|

Please take a couple of minutes to sign up for our new ADHS electronic updates feature. When you sign up to receive electronic updates from the Department, you can click on the kinds of things that you want to receive, like our new “healthy and in-season recipe of the week”, media releases, immunizations newsletters and [...]

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Special Session & Sales Tax Referral

By Will Humble| 2010-02-05T08:44:27-07:00 February 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor called a special session of the Legislature this week (special session) to address various budget issues including education rollover payment issues, additional sale and leaseback issues, a sales tax referral, and a proration of income tax for out-of-state filers. All of these matters have a link to our budget and the future of [...]

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Special Session & Sales Tax Referral

By Will Humble| 2010-02-05T08:44:27-07:00 February 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor called a special session of the Legislature this week (special session) to address various budget issues including education rollover payment issues, additional sale and leaseback issues, a sales tax referral, and a proration of income tax for out-of-state filers. All of these matters have a link to our budget and the future of [...]

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A Year of Progress at ADHS

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:28-07:00 February 4th, 2010|General, Newborn Screening, Preparedness, Prevention|

We started on this journey together a year ago. Thanks for being such good traveling companions. We’ve been through a lot. We’ve had challenges, fears, anxiety, good times, laughs, & fun. We’ve sacrificed some of our programs, but we’ve made a great deal of progress too. Overall- the year was a net plus. I say [...]

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Lancet Withdraws 12 Year Old Flawed Autism Article

By Will Humble| 2010-02-03T08:27:42-07:00 February 3rd, 2010|General, Preparedness|

An article published in the journal Lancet nearly 12 years ago set the public health world on fire. The article published by Wakefield and 12 other authors suggested that they had found a link between the MMR (measles mumps rubella) vaccine and autism and bowel disease. Since that time, a great deal of research has [...]

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