News Alerts
October 24, 2001 - Disease-Specific
Information on Bioterrorism
Five articles on bioterrorism by the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense,
addressing anthrax,
smallpox,
plague,
botulinum
toxin, and
tularemia, are available online and free of charge at http://jama.ama-assn.org.
Also available at that address is a collection of articles concerning
bioterrorism that have been published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association and the Archives journals.
October 17, 2001 - Anthrax: What
Every Clinician Should Know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold a live satellite broadcast on Thursday, Oct. 18, from 4-5:30 p.m. EDT, and a re-broadcast on Monday, Oct. 22, from 5-6:30 p.m. EDT, aimed at helping health care workers
correctly recognize, test, diagnose, treat and report potential cases that could be attributed to anthrax. The broadcast also will include an overview of CDC readiness and response to recent events.
Expected participants on the panel of experts include Tommy Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health & Human Services, and Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Director, CDC. A question-and-answer session will enable participants nationwide to pose questions to panelists via fax or e-mail during the program.
A link to the web cast will be provided on the day of the broadcast
at www.cdc.gov/phtn. For broadcast
specifications and CDC fact sheet (PDF), go to http://www.aha.org/info/content/AtchBroadcastB1018.pdf
.
October 3, 2001 - HHS Awards $10
Million for Child Trauma Services
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration announced today that it is making awards totaling $10 million to improve treatment and services for children and adolescents who are exposed to trauma. Grants are being made in three categories:
- The University of California and the Duke National Center for Traumatic Stress in Los Angeles will receive $3 million to establish a national center "to increase services and raise the standard of care for traumatized children, adolescents, and their families."
In a second category, awards are being made to:
- Boston Medical Center in partnership with Boston University School of Medicine, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorders, $600,000 for a treatment center for medical trauma, including from accidents, war, or refugee displacement.
- Northshore University Hospital, Long Island, NY, $600,000, to coordinate treatment services for adolescent trauma survivors;
- Yale University, New Haven, CT, $600,000 to develop innovative collaborative responses to children acutely traumatized by violence in communities and homes;
- Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, $567,000 to develop and disseminate treatments for use in community settings for child physical and sexual abuse, traumatic loss, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Early Trauma Treatment Network, San Francisco, to improve trauma treatment for families with children zero to six years of age.
As third category of grantees will use funds to establish community practice centers. Grantees are:
- Miller Children's Hospital Abuse and Violence Intervention Center, Long Beach, CA;
- Center for Multicultural Human Services, Falls Church, VA
- Children's Institute International, Los Angeles, CA;
- Arbour Health System, Boston, MA;
- Aurora Mental Health System, Aurora, CO;
- University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO;
- Mental Health Corporation, Denver, CO;
- Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, New York City
- New Mexico Alliance for Children with Traumatic Stress, Santa Fe, NM;
- Northwest Ohio Child Trauma Community Practice Center, Toledo;
- Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT;
- Safe Horizon-St. Vincents Child Trauma Care Center, New York City.
The full text of the SAMHSA press release, with what the various grantees will do, is available at
www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20011003a.html.
