Thursday, February 12, 2004
February is American Heart Month! Did you know that cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are America’s No. 1 killer? According to the American Heart Association, CVD claim more lives than other major causes of death.
Approximately 64.4 million Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular diseases include high blood pressure, coronary heart disease (heart attack and angina which are chest pains), congestive heart failure, stroke, and congenital heart defects.
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.: posted by Micki 9:45 PM
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
Smoking is responsible for approximately 1 in 5 deaths in United States. Smoking-related disease claim an estimated 440,000 American lives each year, including those affected through “secondhand” smoking. Among adults, most smoking attributable deaths were from lung cancer coronary heart disease
and chronic lung disease.
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.: posted by Micki 7:51 PM
Monday, December 08, 2003
AIDS is short for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
AIDS is a disease that slowly destroys the body's immune system. Without
these important defenses, a person with AIDS can't fight off germs and
cancers. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),
AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections.
Such infections are harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune
systems have been greatly weakened, they can prove fatal. Although there
is no cure for AIDS, new drugs are available that can prolong the life
spans and improve the quality of life of infected people.
.: posted by Micki 10:41 PM
Wednesday, November 05, 2003
Diabetes
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose (sugar) levels are above normal. Glucose is the main source of fuel for energy. After eating, food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use a hormone call insulin, which is produced by the pancreas, to help convert blood glucose (sugar) to energy needed for daily life. People with diabetes either don't produce insulin or the body has trouble using insulin.
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.: posted by Micki 10:28 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Making Strides Against Breast Cancer: 5 Mile Walk
Description:
A noncompetitive walk to raise awareness and dollars to fight breast cancer. Pledges are dedicated to life-saving American Cancer Society research, education, patient support, and advocacy programs to defeat the disease. Five mile walk. Teams can be formed of co-workers, family, friends, school groups, sports teams; any sort of group. The team's pledge amount can come from personal contributions or can be raised with fundraisers, like bake sales, car washes, sports tournaments.
When: October 26, 2003
Registration: 8:00 am
Event Start: 9:00 am
Where: 27 S Patterson Avenue, Baltimore, MD
For more information, contact:
Region III - White Marsh Office
8219 Town Center Dr
Baltimore, MD 21236
Phone: (410) 931-6850
Fax: (410) 931-6875
Website: http://www.cancer.org/asp/coe/coe_global.asp
.: posted by Kellye 11:39 AM
Sunday, October 19, 2003
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! The most common cancers among African American women are breast (31%), followed by lung (13%), and colon and rectum (13%). According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), in 2003, an estimated 211,300 new cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the United States. An estimated 20,000 of these new cases of breast cancer are expected to occur among African American women. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among African American women; however, the rate of newly diagnosed cases is about 13% lower than in white women.1 The breast cancer death rate is higher among African American women than white women despite a lower incidence rate. This differential may be due, in part, to later stage at diagnosis, a greater likelihood of being diagnosed with estrogen-receptor negative tumors, or more aggressive tumors which are more difficult to treat. Estrogen-receptor negative tumors are tumors that often are not hormone-dependent, such as estrogen. Consequently, these tumors cannot be treated by hormone-blocking drugs.
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.: posted by Tif 1:48 PM
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
This week our focus is obesity, check out this striking presentation on the constant growth of obesity in the past decade. Click here for obesity presentation
Welcome to live where we here at Poetology encourage you to live better, longer. We are going to use our growing voice in the community to spread messages on general health issues including: STD prevention, health promotion (diet, physical activity), and alcohol, tobacco and other drugs use. This is currently a six month campaign along with The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Morgan State University.
Our initial campaign will take place over the next six months and will begin with web presence and pertinent health information and links. We will spread the message at our weekly open mic starting in July, create a CD for distribution this Fall and finish off the year with a Live! Concert.
How can you be apart of Live?
A)Consume all of the information available here.
B)Encourage all you friends and family members to Live!
C)Contribute your health related poetry.
D)Come out to Street Folks for Live! paraphernalia and information.
E)Audition for one of four available spots on the Live! CD and concert.
F)Live!