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Health & Wellness "? ' ' V* ? ? f '1 ; if/ Healthbeat Holiday patrols begin State Transportation Secretary Gene Conti has announced that state and local law enforcement officers will be out in force as part of the Holiday "Booze It A Lose It" cam paign. Checkpoints and stepped-up patrols began Friday, Dec. 7 and will continue through Wednesday, Jan. 2 across North Carolina in an effort to remove impaired drivers from the roads. "Make the responsible decision to desig nate a driver if you plan to drink this holiday season," Conti said. "The choice you make could save a life." In 2011, there were more than 950 alcohol related crashes in North Carolina during the holiday campaign, which ran from Dec. 3 through Jan. 2, resulting in 44 fatalities and 702 injuries. Officers charged more than 3,600 North Carolina motorists with driving while impaired during the 2011 Holiday "Booze It & Lose It" campaign. More than 10,000 stepped up patrols and checkpoints were conducted. Gospel contest aims to raise stroke awareness The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association are holding their k 4th annual Most Powerful Voices, an online gospel competition that helps the associations educate people about stroke, which is the fourth leading cause of death and the leading preventable cause of disability in America. Those who wish to enter must be 18 years or oiaer, sign up ai http://power.watchgm ctv.com and upload a video or MP3 file by Jan. 31. Family, friends - and fans - have until April 5 to vote for their favorite artists. Those who register to compete or vote will receive life saving stroke informa tion from the American Heart ASSUtldUUIl/AIIICI nail Stroke Association. The top 10 finalists will be judged by gospel music industry leaders, including singer/songwriter Michelle Williams, formerly of Destiny's Child; James Robinson, president of A&R at Light Records; and holy hip hop artist, Flame. The grand prize winner will be announced April 30 and will receive a slew of prizes, including a spot in the Central Park Summer Stage Concert in New York City and a digital single on iTunes from Light Records. Contest cosponsors include GMC TV, Light Records and Roland Corporation. Most Powerful Voices is part of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Power To End Stroke awareness campaign. Through Power lb End Stroke, the association provides culturally relevant events, tools and resources to decrease stroke among African Americans, who are disproportionally affected by the disease. For more information on the competition and stroke, visit http://power.watchgmctv.com. Hospital restricts young visitors as a flu precaution High Point Regional Health System has begun to restrict visitors who are under the age of 18 to prevent the spread of the flu. This decision is based on recommenda tions from the health system's infection con trol committee to combat the spread of influenza among patients," said Dr. Dale Williams, chief medical officer at High Point Regional. "Our decision is sim ilar to other hospitals across the nation to restrict children from visiting the hospital while flu is prevalent in our com munity." Accordingly, those who are under age 18 will not be permitted to visit patients. The restrictions apply to lobbies, waiting areas and patient rooms. The policy does not apply to children who need emergency care or hospital ization. This restriction is in addition to safety measures already in place requiring all indi viduals entering the hospital to sanitize their hands. High Point Regional stated that it recog nizes that this policy may cause some disrup tion to families, but believes that the hospital's first priority is ensuring the safest possible environment for patients and diminishing potential exposure to die flu. High Point Regional will continue to eval uate die situation as the flu season progresses ?. lyf. * *'1*1 ' * * tj Williams Local doctor delivers educational tools to Ghana CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT Dr. Medge Owen, a pro fessor of Obstetric Anesthesia at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and founder of Kybele Inc., organized a project that installed comput ers and distrib u t e d school supplies to three schools and one orphan age in unana. The Kybele Inc.-led proj ect took place during the Thanksgiving holiday and was conducted in partnership with Forsyth Country Day School, Hopscotch, a High Point-based adoption agency; and Cash Lovell Stables & Riding Academy. Fifteen donated desktop and 12 laptop computers were installed, in Ghanaian schools. Other school sup plies - collected from Triad students and their families - were also delivered. "It was incredible taking a group of local children to Africa," said Owen. "Our children learned first-hand how they can make an impor tant difference to others in the world." Kybele Inc. is a Winston Salem-based humanitarian organization dedicated to improving childbirth safety worldwide through educa tional partnerships. Dr. Owen has long used her medical training to improve maternal and newborn safety during , childbirth. Worldwide, nearly 600,000 women die during childbirth each year. Most of these deaths occur in developing countries and could be pre set Owen on A 7 Owen r^ ^ I I I ?& lm^ Dream Bike ^ HV 1 Joey Hensley squats beside the custom motorcycle he built in honor of Mickey Eddinger, a friend who died of cancer. The "Knock Out Cancer Motorcycle," constructed largely through donated of materials, made its debut last Friday at the Forsyth Medical Center Derrick L. Davis Ctutcer Center. Hensley, a celebrated custom bike builder, plans to show his creation at bike shows to promote cancer awareness. He will auction it off at the world famous Barrett Jackson Auction http:llwww^arrett-Jacksonxom, where it could fetch as muck as $150 JMO for the Derrick L. Davis Cancer Center and the Charlie Wolff Cares Fund for melanoma research. Aggie receives recognition for research SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE North Carolina A&T State University senior Jabari Henriques was awarded two best presenta tion awards at this year's Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABR CMS). Henriques won in both the chemistry and interdis ciplinary sciences cate gories during die three-day conference in San Jose, Calif, in early November. His research work, "A Facile 'Green' Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles using extract of dried Schinus molle seeds as a Reducing and Stabilizing Agent," was part of the ECSU-Minonty Health International Research Training at Eastern Cape, South Africa last summer. TTC CUC SV J/IUUU Ui him," said Dr. Margaret Kanipes, associate profes sor and interim chair of the chemistry department. Henriques' interests lie in natural medicine. After graduation from N.C. A&T, Henriques wants to pursue his M.D./Ph.D to conduct research on different natu ral medicines and to offer his medical patients natural alternatives to synthetic drugs. Now in its 12th year, ABRCMS is the largest, professional conference for biomedical and behavioral students, including mathe matics. It attracts approxi mately 3,300 individuals, including 1,700 undergrad uate students, 400 graduate students and postdoctoral scientists and 1,200 faculty members, program direc tors and administrators. Students come from over 330 U.S. colleges and uni versities. Jabari Henriques College Flu Fears Students have low vaccination rates SPECIAL TO THE CHRONfjV* College football and basketball games may provide more than a way for students to show school spirit - they could help prevent the flu. According to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, colleges and nniversities should implement new or improved influenza vaccine strategies, such as giving flu shots at sporting events or during campus wide, day-long campaigns, to increase the number of their students who get the annual flu vaccine. In the early online edi tion of the December issue of the Journal of American College Health, the researchers found that only one in five college students at eight North Carolina uni versities reported getting a flu shot during the 2009-10 flu season. "Influenza virus is con tagious and is known to cir culate thrpugh college cam puses, enhanced by close living quarters, typical social activities and low vaccine coverage," said Dr. Kathy Poehling, associate professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the study. "With influenza virus already being detected this November, it is likely to increase in the next one to three months and may overlap with exam periods. Although it is hard to predict the severity of the coming flu season, we usually have more influenza activity after a mild season like last year's." In this study, believed to be the first multi-university study to assess seasonal flu vaccine coverage, a total of 4,090 college students participat ed in a confidential, web-based survey in late October and November 2009 regarding whether they had received a flu shot. r / See Ra on A7 Still Going Strong! The People's CUnic : A North Carolina Health Education Collaborative The health education articles that the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity places in your newspaper every week are sponsored by a project known as The People's Clinic. The project began back in July 2005 as a partner ship with the Winston-Salem Chronicle and has since been adopted by six other African American owned newspapers across North Carolina The entire > project targets three groups in the state of NC: African Americans, American Indians and Latinos. For the American Indian communities, we are placing articles in church bulletins and tribal newsletters and creating text-based public service announce ments. We have also created men's and women's health guides. In the Latino commu nity, we contribute health education informa tion to local Latino community groups, churches and media outlets. In the African American community, to date, we have written more than 300 articles on various health-related topics relevant to African Americans living in NC! In general, our articles focus on areas that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified as disparity areas?that is, areas in which African Americans and other minority communities have worse health outcomes than whites. The People's Clinic articles are pre pared by Maya Angelou Center faculty and staff, and we often collaborate with other pro fessionals or community organizations. ? See CHafc on A7 ? OO V*M? Poraat -i ** 1? -? XTXXX CV M4KJtOn? ? M >??I. ?! II *rHB? Tha Paopla'a Clinic: ^ANog|Ol^g?g?Dl%^ n<? Maya AnpaguOMr tar Martha*** Wihal la^ili ^lii T?iAna/ ? rourmra^w :| _
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