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SUMMARY:Looking ahead: A reporter's guide to Children’s Dental Health Month
DESCRIPTION:View a recording of this webcast\n \nSpeaker’s presentation\n\nShelly Gehshan\n\nResources\n\n\nAHCJ’s Oral Health Core Topic \n\n\nTip Sheet: School-based dental sealant programs \n\n\nPew Charitable Trusts: Children’s Dental Policy \n\n\nCovering Health blog: Oral health \n\n\n \n\nIn advance of Children’s Dental Health Month in February\, we will discuss the latest research on oral health and how it may impact policy in the states. \nShelly Gehshan\, director of  children’s dental policy at The Pew Charitable Trusts\, also will provide perspective on oral health programs that are making a difference and the issues that may provide barriers to improving dental health. \nStories include how a program in North Carolina has improved children’s oral health by utilizing doctors to help apply fluoride varnish. Gehshan also will discuss the benefits of dental sealant programs and some of the barriers at the state level that prevent these programs from reaching more children. \nOur webcast will be hosted by Mary Otto\, AHCJ’s Oral Health core topic leader.  \nDate & time:2 p.m. ET\, Jan. 27  \n<!– \nNOTE: This is exclusively for AHCJ members; will need your username and password. If you don’t have that\, please email info@healthjournalism.org. A link to the webcast will appear on this page about 15 minutes before it begins. \n–> \nShelly Gehshan (@SGehshan) directs children’s dental policy at Pew\, supervising work with states to expand access to prevention and treatment for children through policy changes in Medicaid\, sealant programs\, community water fluoridation and the dental workforce. She speaks frequently about an expanded dental workforce and the benefits of community water fluoridation. She helped legislators in Minnesota draft the nation’s first state law licensing dental therapists. She served on the Institute of Medicine panel that released a major report in 2011 on the dental access problem. Gehshan spent nearly 20 years working for state policy makers on a range of issues affecting low-income women and children. \n\nShelly Gehshan \n\n\nMary Otto
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/looking-ahead-a-reporters-guide-to-childrenaes-dental-health-month/
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SUMMARY:Update of Health Effects of Serving in the Gulf War
DESCRIPTION:This ad hoc committee under the auspices of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will comprehensively review\, evaluate\, and summarize the available scientific and medical literature regarding health effects in the 1990-1991 Gulf War veterans.   \nThe committee will pay particular attention to neurological disorders (e.g.\, Parkinson’s disease\, Multiple Sclerosis\, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis\, and Migraines)\, cancer (especially brain cancer and lung cancer)\, and chronic multisymptom illness.\nThe proposed study will update earlier IOM reviews on Gulf War and Health\, and this volume (Volume 10) will update the literature since the publication of the 2006 (Volume 4) and 2010 (Volume 8) Gulf War and Health reports. The committee will also provide recommendations for future research efforts on Gulf War veterans.  \nJan. 27-28\, 2015 \nNational Academy of Sciences Building 2100 C St. NW  Washington D.C. \nTo attend the sessions of this meeting that are open to the public or need more information\, contact Nicole Freid at NFreid@nas.edu or 202-334-1751. \n 
URL:https://healthjournalism.org/event/update-of-health-effects-of-serving-in-the-gulf-war/
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