JUNEAU – SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) recently received two grants from the State of Alaska totaling $575,000. The first is a four-year grant from Indian Health Service, Methamphetamine, and Suicide Prevention for $200,000 per year, totaling $800,000. SEARHC will use this funding to promote early intervention strategies and implement positive youth development programming to […]
JUNEAU – Governor Bill Walker signed SB 23, a life-saving measure preventing opioid overdose in Alaska, into law this week. Sponsored by Senator Johnny Ellis of Anchorage and co-sponsored by 37 other legislators, the bill removes civil liabilities from doctors and trained bystanders who prescribe and administer naloxone, a drug intended to counteract the negative […]
TAU study says nearly 10 percent of smokers hospitalized for pneumonia are diagnosed with lung cancer within one year Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States, with a five-year survival rate of just 17 percent. Smoking causes approximately 85 percent of all lung cancer cases, only 15 percent of […]
Anchorage, Alaska — The inaugural Alaska Safe Children’s Act Task Force meeting was held in Anchorage, Alaska. The Task force was established this past session by House Bill 44, The Alaska Safe Children’s Act, to provide school districts with curriculum recommendations regarding child sexual assault and abuse, dating violence, suicide and FASD prevention. Task force […]