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Raspberry Pi Health Care

The Health Care Blog

Between 2006 and 2011, Eben Upton and his collaborators sought to change this. You assembled them and figured out what you might want to use them for. Then came Apple and the PC revolution. Our expectations about what computers could do grew as our expectations about what we had to do diminished.

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California pone gafas, guantes y máscaras a 10.000 trabajadores agrícolas para protegerlos de la gripe aviar

KFF Health News

En 2006, el gobernador republicano Arnold Schwarzenegger ordenó aumentar los planes de contingencia de California ante una pandemia, en respuesta a una amenaza anterior de gripe aviar. Sin embargo, las autoridades sanitarias de todo el país han tenido dificultades para rastrear la transmisión de la gripe aviar.

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As California Taps Pandemic Stockpile for Bird Flu, Officials Keep Close Eye on Spending

KFF Health News

Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered an increase in California’s pandemic preparedness in 2006 in response to an earlier threat from bird flu. This article was produced by KFF Health News , which publishes California Healthline , an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. Republican Gov.

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Community Health Workers Spread Across the US, Even in Rural Areas

KFF Health News

But thousands of Karen people — an ethnic minority from the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar — began arriving in 2006. Mickie Scheibe, one of Huron’s community health workers, recently stopped by the house of client Kelly Engebretson. Huron, a small city surrounded by rural areas, is mostly populated by white people.

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Global Warming and Disease

The Health Care Blog

For example, a cold clip near the Caspian Sea in 2006 triggered a mass exodus of swan, which unleashed an H5N1 viral outbreak in domestic birds across Western Europe. Spring migrations are now taking place earlier, with age classes, species and flyways significantly altered.

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Remembering Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter at HJ12 in Atlanta

Association of Health Care Journalists

Following that reporting, the state closed the hospital and Oregonian editorials earned the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing based in part on her investigation. During and after the fellowship, Roberts reported on longstanding abuse and inhumane practices at a 145-year-old psychiatric hospital in Oregon.

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What RFK Jr. could do: Reporting on U.S. vaccine policy and the powers of the HHS Secretary

Association of Health Care Journalists

He is also the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine, RotaTeq, recommended for universal use in infants by the CDC in 2006 and by the WHO in 2013. Offit is currently a voting member on the FDAs Vaccine Advisory Committee and has previously served on the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices to the CDC.