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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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NetWellness provides the highest quality health information and education services created and evaluated by faculty of our partner universities.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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November brings many observances that encourage awareness of breathing and lung disorders. Depend on NetWellness to help you breathe easier by visiting Lung and Respiratory Diseases and related topics Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Pulmonary Hypertension, Asthma, and Smoking and Tobacco. Find out how your lungs work and ways to keep them healthy. Help a smoker you know join the Great American Smoke Out. Become an advocate. Ask our experts questions if you need more information. And breathe easier, knowing you have information of the highest quality.
The Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is recognized as a national leader in education, research and clinical medicine. Areas of particular interest to the faculty include asthma, innate immunity, cystic fibrosis, critical care, rare lung disorders, health care outcomes, emphysema, interstitial lung disease, sleep disorders, and lung cancer.
The division consists of 16 full-time physicians and basic scientists engaged in research, teaching and patient care. Most of these activities take place at the Medical Sciences Building, the Cardiovascular Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, The University Hospital, Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, the Drake Center, Holmes Hospital, and University Pointe. A three year fellowship training program is the heart of the division, and is strengthened by close interactions with colleagues in the College of Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Veteran's Affairs Medical Center and the Cincinnati community.
Members of the Division answer questions and write articles on NetWellness in the topics: Asthma and Lung & Respiratory Diseases.
NetWellness has added a new feature to its homepage to help you stay informed about the spread of avian influenza - or Bird Flu. Check this link regularly for up-to-date information from the Centers for Disease Control, the World Health Organization, the American Veterinary Medicine Association, and other sources.
In response to requests from our users, NetWellness has added a new help feature on the homepage. Click on "Ask an Expert" in the top menu and get full instructions on how to use the Ask an Expert feature. And don't forget, we are always trying to improve to meet your needs. What do we do well? What can we do to better fit your needs? Send your comments through our Feedback and our team will give them prompt consideration.
NetWellness welcomes Ulysses J. Magalang, MD, Medical Director, Sleep Disorders Center; Rami N. Khayat, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor; and Leroy W. Essig II, MD, Clinical Instructor, all faculty in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University to the Sleep Disorders Ask an Expert team. Adding pediatric expertise to this expanding group of experts is Mark Splaingard, MD, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Pulmonary Medicine, Columbus Children's, College of Medicine at The Ohio State University. Sleep-related issues are a growing problem in children, causing learning difficulties for many school-aged youth.
Cathy Benninger, APRN, C-AE, Program Coordinator, Asthma Clinic, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University has joined colleagues of the Asthma Ask an Expert team. As a certified asthma educator, Cathy brings extensive experience in helping patients understand this chronic lung disease.
Media reports may have you puzzled about just what is meant by terms like risk, absolute risk, relative risk, and odds. J. Mac Crawford, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences and Stanley Lemeshow, MSPH, PhD, Professor and Dean, Division of Biostatistics, both of the School of Public Health at The Ohio State University, have written a new article, What's the Risk? It's all Relative. The easy-to-understand examples will help you sort out the meaning of these terms and better understand health studies in the news.
NetWellness is introducing a new topic, Preventive Dentistry, adding to wealth of existing topics on Dental and Oral Health. Faculty from Case Western Reserve's department of community dentistry will join NetWellness as experts in this topic area, including the Director of Community Dentistry, James Lalumandier, DDS, MPH, Professor; Stephen Wotman, DDS, Professor; Suchitra Nelson, PhD, Assistant Professor; James Houston, DDS, Instructor; Kristin Victoroff, DDS, Assistant Professor; Catherine Demko, PhD, Associate Professor; Kristin Williams, DDS, MPH, Senior Instructor. The oral health experts from Case will work closely with dental experts from the Ohio State University College of Dentistry, who serve as experts for 12 dental and oral health topic areas on NetWellness.
NetWellness welcomes faculty from the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship program at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. Joining NetWellness expert Christina Delos Reyes, MD, who runs the fellowship program, is Bruce Merkin, MD, Adjunct Professor; and Addiction Psychiatry Fellows, Maria Pagano, MD; Richard DeFranco, MD; Nyk Pidhorodeckyj, MD, MCS; and Georgette Somjen, MD. They join colleagues from The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati in this Ask an Expert forum.
NetWellness expert, Tanya Edwards, MD, Med, has three new articles appearing on NetWellness this month: Good Food, the Key to Healthy Children... It's Easier Than You Think, Mom Was Right: Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables, What is Massage: Information You Knead to Know. Check out these and other articles in Complementary Medicine.
As we near our tenth year on the internet, we are gathering anecdotes about how NetWellness is helping our users meet their health information needs. Do you have any stories or experiences you would like to share? If so, please use our Feedback feature to tell us about them.
NetWellness is a non-profit consumer health Web site that provides high quality information created and evaluated by health professions faculty at the University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve University, and The Ohio State University. Started in June 1995, NetWellness was one of the first health information sites on the Internet.
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