Center News
EDICT Project Releases White Paper on the Shortcomings of How Clinical Trials are Designed, Carried Out and Funded in the U.S.
(Washington, DC – April 1, 2008) EDICT Project releases a new white paper on major shortcomings in the way clinical trials are designed, carried out and funded in the United States with a press conference at the National Press Club in the nation's capital.
View the press conference . . .
http://www.bcm.edu/edict/RA/EDICT_Press_Conference_4-1-20008.ram
Read white paper . . .
http://www.bcm.edu/edict/PDF/EDICT_Project_White_Paper.pdf
Read news story about the release of the white paper . . .
U.S. News and World Report news story
Galveston County Officials Adopt Recommendation of Baylor Report On Childhood Lead Poisoning in Galveston, Texas
(November 19, 2007) Dr. Mark Guidry, chief operating officer of the Galveston county health district, and Dr. Ben Raimer, who heads community health services at the University of Texas Medical Branch, volunteer to share the title "lead czar." Appointment of a lead czar was one of 14 recommendations in a report released by the Center's Environmental Health Section on October 28, 2007. This report resulted from a study led by Assistant Professor of Medicine, Winifred J. Hamilton, Ph.D., S.M. examining childhood lead poisoning in Galveston, Texas. Funded by the Kempner Fund this study mapped cases of lead poisoning reported between November 16, 1992 and January 31, 2006.
To access this report and view the maps in Adobe Acrobat PDF format see . . .
http://envirohealthhouston.org/files/galvestonleadreport/
Read the January 27, 2008 Houston Chronicle story about the response to the report . . .
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5488915.html NEW
Read related stories in the Galveston Daily News . . .
http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=e4686ecf356a760e
And the KHOU, Channel 11 story with an interview of Dr. Hamilton . . .
http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou071028_tnt_islandlead.1b53835d4.html
Armin D. Weinberg, PhD Elected Chair-Elect of the Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition
(November 15, 2007) Center Director Armin D. Weinberg, PhD is elected chair-elect of the Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition. He will serve on the Executive Committee immediately, fill in for the current chair when he is unavailable, and will become chair of the Coalition on January 1, 2010 with a two-year term that expires December 31, 2011.
For more information about the Coalition see . . .
http://www.texascancercoalition.org
Report of the Texas Pain Summit Posted on the Website of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives
(November 5, 2007) The formal report of the of the Texas Pain Summit, The Politics of Pain: Balancing Vigilance and Compassion - Report of the Texas Pain Summit 2006-2007, is now posted on the Web site of Alliance of State Pain Initiatives. Baylor College of Medicine joined other Texas organizations in support of the Summit and development of the report. This support included the participation of Center faculty in conducting surveys of Texas physicians and nurses in collaboration with the Texas Medical Association's Physician Oncology Education Program. Both Center faculty and the Executive Director of the Intercultural Cancer Council, which is housed at the Center, participated in the the Summit.
To download the report see . . .
http://www.aspi.wisc.edu/documents/pdf/PoliticsofPain2007TXPI.pdf
Order Our Revised Pocket Guide Promoting Cultural Competence in Communications with Cancer Patients
Baylor College of Medicine has published a new revised edition of Cultural Competence in Cancer Care: A Health Care Professional's Passport. This popular easy-to-reference pocket guide was developed to help health care providers better assess, diagnose and treat cancer patients of various cultural backgrounds. The new revised edition can be ordered now from the Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center's Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) office.
To learn more or order copies of the guide see . . .
http://iccnetwork.org/pocketguide/
