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Featured Topics

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• Therapy for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea

• The LA Health Overview of a Pregnancy Event

• Recommended Immunization Schedules

• National Infant Immunization Week

• Recommended Immunization Schedule (0-6)

• Recommended Immunization Schedule (7-18)

• A Historical Perspective on World TB Day

• The 2006 Laboratory Practices Survey

• Multi-Drug Resistant TB in LA County

• Report of TB Burden in LA County

• Strategies to Increase TB Treatment Completion

• What is GOTCH Law?

• Importance of Oral Health

• Employee Wellness

• STD Treatment Guidelines

• TPH Survey

• Respiratory Hygiene Education Materials

• Preteen Vaccines

• Syphilis Control

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• Special Reporting Issue - 2007

• HIPAA: Standards Exempt Public Health Agencies

• HIV is Now Reportable By Name

• Avian Influenza: Heightened Awareness and Surveillance is Critical

• County Seasonal Influenza Surveillance

• Reporting Cases of Vaccine Preventable Diseases to the Health Department

• World AIDS Day

• Adults with Arthritis

• Emergency Contraception Pill Available

• Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine

• Invasive Group A Streptococcal Disease

• Preventing Influenza: What doctors can do

• Antibiotic Resistance Information Corner

• Guide to Evaluating Patients

• Suspected of Having Smallpox

• Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention

• National STD Conference

• New Vaccine Recommendations For 2006-07 Influenza Season

• Bioterrorism and Animals

• Medical Reserve Corps of Los Angeles

• Life-Threatening Complications of TB in AIDS Patients

• Lyme Disease

• Care for Rattlesnake Bites

• Trauma Season

• Drug Interactions with Anti-TB Agents

• Physicians Help Medically Vulnerable

• Prepare for Disasters

• The Los Angeles-Orange Immunization

• Network (LINK)

• National STD Conference

• National HIV Testing Week

• Mumps Update and 2005 LAC Perinatal Summit

• Trauma, Biochemical Effects, and Consequences of Anxiety Disorders

• West Nile Virus 2006: Now Endemic to California

• Prevention Campaign for Women's Health

• Investigating Shellfish Toxins

• Preventive Health Services for Women

• Animals as Sentinels for Infectious Diseases

• Sexual Assault Awareness Month

• STD Awareness Month

• The need to Report Histological Evidence of TB

• Animal Rabies in Los Angeles County

• Childhood & Adolescent Immunization Schedule

• Awareness & Surveillance for Avian Influenza

• Antibiotic Resistance Information Center

• Rabies Control & Prevention

• Preventing Childhood Motor Vehicle Occupant Injury

• Prevention of Traumatic Brain Injury

• Needs & Experiences of People Living with HIV/AIDS

• Poison Prevention

• STD/HIV Partner Notification Goes Online

• Botulism

• SPECIAL REPORTING ISSUE - 2006

• HIPPA: EXEMPT PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCIES

• Avian Influenza

• Respiratory Hygiene

• Reporting of Selected Non-Communicable Diseases

• Reporting Cases of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases to the Health Department

• Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Los Angeles County

• STD Sensitivity Trainings Launched

• STD Program Wins National Award

• Survey of TB Labs in Los Angeles County

• Health Alert: Menactra Meningococcal Vaccine (MCV4) and Guillain-Barre Syndrome

• LA Men's Web Survey

• Injury-Related Morbidity and Mortality Among School-Aged Children in LA County

• Checklist to Keep Your Child Safe

• Changes in Reportable Diseases

• Influenza Campaign

• Screening Children for Lead

• Antibiotic Resistance

• Pertussis

• Africanized Honey Bee

• Back to School - Review Immunization Records

• Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

• Infant Mortality in the Antelope Valley

• Nurse-Family Partnership

• The ABC's of HPV Testing

• School Safety

• Rapid HIV Testing in LA County
• New Emergency Contraception Policy for County Public Health STD Clinics
• Summer Months Continue to Peak in Injury Fatalities
• Sting!
• Meningcoccal Conjugate Vaccine

• Pertussis Cases Increase in LA County
• West Nile Virus - Now Endemic to Southern California
• Antibiotic Resistance Corner
• Pertussis Fact Sheet
• Lead Levels and Their Harm in Children

• Screening & Mandating Reporting of Intimate    Partner Violence for Physicians
• Los Angeles Mommy & Baby (LAMB) Project Expanded to Cover Entire County
• Recommended Childhood & Adolescent Immunization Schedule
• Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project
• DHS News

• Avian Influenza
• Lymphogranuloma Venereum Infections Alert
• Rabies Death in Los Angeles County
• Perinatal Hepatitis B
• HIV & High Risk Group

• The Pneumococcal Vaccines
• Upcoming HIV Epidemiology Program Studies
• Reporting Cases of Vaccine- Preventable
• Diseases to the Health Dept.
• TB Reporting Forms

• Special Reporting Issue 2005
• Reporting of Enteric Diseases - What Every Healthcare Provider Should Know
• Reporting of Selected Non-communicable Diseases & Conditions
• Respiratory Hygiene - Free Posters

• Influenza Update
• Guidelines for Influenza Diagnosis
• TB Burden in LA County
• Downward Trend in Syphilis
• Antibiotic Resistance Information Center

• Increase in the Infant Mortality Rate among African Americans
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
• Lead in Mexican Candies
• Holiday Safety Tips
• Perinatal HIV Infection
• New CDC-Funded HIV Studies

• Influenza 2004-2005
• Respiratory Hygiene
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
• Adult Immunization Recommendations
• Local Pediatric Immunization Coverage Increases
• Pull-Out Poster for Respiratory Hygiene
• Halloween Tips

• New Childhood/Adolescent Immunization Schedule July - Dec 2004, and New Flu Vaccine Recommendations
• Whooping Cough Cases Expected to Increase This Summer
• Harbor-UCLA Rated Top Performer
• Pitfalls in the Diagnosis and Management of TB
• Reporting of West Nile Virus Now Mandated in LA County

• Summer Safety
• Antibiotic Resistance Information Corner
• Screening Children for Childhood Poisoning
• Children's Health Insurance
• Health Survey on Breastfeeding
• HIV Anti-retroviral Study
• Health Survey on Smoking

• West Nile Virus 2004
• Non-Communicable Disease Reporting
• Antibiotic Resistance Information Center
• HIV-1 Superinfection
• Mycobacterium gordonae

• Syphilis Treatment
• Coccidioidomycosis
• Antibiotic Resistance Corner
• Salmonella Outbreak
• Partner Notification of STD's
• DHS Staff Recent Publications

• Avian Influenza
• Meningococcal Disease
• Recommended Childhood & Adolescent
• Immunization Schedule
• Increase in AIDS Cases

• Special Reporting Issue 2004
• HIPAA
• Disease Reporting
• Mandatory Animal Bite Reporting
• BT Information Manual Now Available

• Influenza Vaccination
• BT Information Manual
• New Pediatric HIV Testing Law
• CHDP Gateway Program
• Vaccine Storage and Storing Info
• Antibiotic Resistance Corner
• DHS Staff Recent Publications

• The Changing Face of Lead Poisoning Prevention - Senate Bill 460
• Notice of Correction - Hospitalized Varicella Reporting in LA County
• Antibiotic Misuse in LA County
• Invasive Pneumococcal Disease - LA County 2002 Statistics
• Antibiotic Resistance Information Center

• Spider Bite Wounds
• Correction Notice
• Community associated MRSA in Hospital Children

• New Tools for Diagnosing Primary and Secondary Syphilis
• Immunization Schedule
• New User Friendly STD Confidential Morbidity Report

• Special Reporting Issue
• New Healthcare Information Privacy Standards Exempt Public Health Agencies
• Reporting Vaccine- Preventable Diseases to the Health Dept.
• New TB Screening Guidelines for Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Mandatory Animal Bite Reporting

• Syphilis Cases Continue to Rise in Los Angeles
• More Children with HIV Infection Reported In Los Angeles County...
• Perinatal Hepatitis B:Vaccine Recommendations
  Methylmercury in Fish Poses Health Risk

• West Nile Virus: First Confirmed Case in L.A.
• Invasive Pnemococcal Disease Reporting Now Required in L.A. County
• Current Statistics on Invasive Pnemococcal Disease in L.A. County
• Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

• DHS Closes 11 Health Centers
• LA County's Annual Flu Campaign 2002-2003
• Varicella Vaccine - Return to Routine Immunization Schedule
• ACIP's 2002 Influenza Vaccination Recommendations
• Controlling Antibiotic Resistance
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Update
• Appointment of Maternal Health & Family Planning Director

• California Mandates Reporting of HIV Infection
• Routine Vaccination Schedule Resumes for Td, DTaP, & MMR
• Shigellosis in LA County
• SIDS
• Pertussis Rates among Unvaccinated Infants

• Vaccine Supply Update
• Encephalitis Surveillance
• West Nile Virus Heading for California
• VAERS on the Internet
• Acquired Rifamycin Resistance in Advanced HIV Disease
• Immunization Coalition
• Rat Bite Referrals

• Recommended US Childhood Immunization Schedule 2002
• Vaccine Shortage Update

• Important Changes in Reportable Diseases
• Clinicians Urged to Encourage Influenza Vaccination
• LA County Health Survey: Briefs
• Smoking Prevalence & Efforts to Quit

• Interim Guidelines for Use of Pneumococcal Vaccine During Limited Supply
• Influenza Update
• Syphilis - Implications for Congenital Cases
• LA Health Survey Briefs

• Revised Guidelines for Latent TB Treatment,
• Immunizations: Minimizing Pain and Maximizing Comfort
• Calming Nerves About West Nile Virus
• Legionelliosis

• Influenza Vaccine Update, Managing Animal Bites
• Postpartum Depression
• LA Health Survey Briefs
• Outbreak of Norwalk-like virus

• Varicella Immunization Law
• Patient-Delivered Chlamydia Therapy
• Understanding E. Coli
• New Study - County Health Status
• Tetanus & Diphtheria Toxoids Shortage
• Antepartum Fetal Surveillance

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