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Game Changer This report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop specifies how increased national investment in research-based digital games can play a cost-effective and transformative role.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	06/23/2009
A Shot Against MRSA? An examination of the obstacles around developing a staph vaccine. Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs	04/23/2009
Housing and Health This issue brief examines the ways in which housing can influence health and discusses promising strategies to ensure all Americans have healthy homes.	Issue and policy briefs, Reports	10/02/2008
Examining the Antibiotic Pipeline Extending the Cure looks at recently approved and late-stage development antibiotics to determine gaps in supply warranting enhanced research and development. Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs	05/29/2008
Which MRSA is It? Community-Acquired MRSA versus Hospital-Acquired MRSA A policy brief from RWJF grantee Extending the Cure discusses the responses to community-acquired MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs, Primers	03/13/2008
Legislative Roundup for 2007 This policy brief from the RWJF grantee Extending the Cure provides a look back at 2007 state and federal legislation and regulation focusing on antibiotic-resistant infections. Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs, Primers, Legislative scans or reports	01/13/2008
Counting MRSA Cases By now, almost everyone has heard of MRSA-variants of the ubiquitous "staph" bacteria with resistance to traditional antibiotics. But the question remains, how serious is the problem nationally?This issue brief highlights two recent studies from... Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs	12/10/2007
The States Take Action Recent headlines have turned the spotlight on "superbugs"-antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can kill otherwise healthy children and teenagers (among others). These recent deaths are both shocking and tragic and are reflective of a larger trend. There are 1.7... Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs	11/01/2007
Can Vaccines Reduce Antibiotic Use? The Successes and Challenges of Pneumococcal Vaccines Children under 5 years of age and adults over 65 are most susceptible to strep (or pneumococcal) infections. At older ages, strep causes pneumonia and dangerous infections of the bloodstream. Although small children (and their parents) are made miserable by strep... Published In: Policy Responses to the Growing Threat of Antibiotic Resistance	Issue and policy briefs	08/30/2007
Clinical Information Technology Gaps Persist Among Physicians: Issue Brief No. 106 Physicians in smaller practices continue to lag well behind physicians in larger practices in reporting the availability of clinical information technology (IT) in their offices, according to a new national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change... Published In: Center for Studying Health System Change	Issue and policy briefs	11/09/2006

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