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January 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Healthy Babies Minnesota is an umbrella of activities aimed at using prenatal and first-year initiatives to make Minnesotans healthier throughout their lives. NewPublicHealth spoke with Edward Ehlinger, MD, the state’s commissioner of health, about ...
January 11, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, president of the March of Dimes, comments on efforts to give more babi ...
October 21, 2011 | New Public Health Post
For the last few years, each annual meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials has kicked off a yearlong President’s Challenge that focuses on a particular health issue impacting all states. Judith Monroe, MD, now the direc ...
August 5, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Just in time for World Breastfeeding Week, the American Academy of Pediatrics is launching their revised guide to breastfeeding, the first time the book has been updated in ten years. New information in the revised edition includes: New research on ...
May 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Heading into a very special Mother's Day weekend, NewPublicHealth pulled together some links and resources that celebrate Moms for everything they do to keep us healthy, wealthy and wise. National Women’s Health Week kicks off on Mother’s Day. The s ...
June 5, 2013 | New Public Health Post
This year’s arch of Dimes National Communications Advisory Council luncheon focuses on treating mental health conditions in mothers during and after pregnancy.
December 26, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A study released this fall in the American Journal of Public Health looks at a critical evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program led by the United Way of Greater Milwaukee. The United Way catalyzed critical partnerships between schools, comm ...
December 11, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The strange pull of this series is its humanity, not its horrors.
November 2, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Pamela K. Xaverius reflects on her poster presentation at the American Public Health Association annual meeting.