Show Your Love is a new national campaign developed by the Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative (PCHHCI). Launching on Valentine’s Day, its goal is to help women prepare for healthy pregnancies and babies by adopting healthy habits well before becoming pregnant.
The pill, the shot, male and female condoms — how do they work? Which is most effective? Does it require a doctors visit to get it? Stay Teen.org answers those…
MaterniT21 is the name of the new prenatal test that can detect genetic abnormalities at just 10 weeks with 99 percent accuracy. The new DNA-based screening test is a simple…
The Agency for Health Care Administration added a new page, Deliveries and Newborns, to its website, FloridaHealthFinder.gov. FloridaHealthFinder.gov is a consumer and researcher health information resource website. The site includes…
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi released the Final Report of her Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns. The report contains 15 recommendations for prevention, intervention, best practices…
The Jacksonville Children’s Commission has made their 2011-2012 annual report, “Partnering to support children and families” available to the community. The Commission evaluates, plans and distributes the city’s funds for children. The…
It’s one month into New Years resolutions of weight loss and a week past National Healthy Weight Week and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has a reminder for new moms: breastfeeding…
Mother-to-infant HIV transmission by breast milk is more common in women who become infected late in their pregnancy or during lactation, according to a policy statement published by the Committee…
Despite one of the highest perinatal HIV exposure rates in the state, no HIV-infected babies were born in Northeast Florida in 2012, according to preliminary data from the Florida Department…
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices published its recommended vaccination schedules for persons aged 0 to 18 and adults 19 years and older for 2013. The ACIP is a federal…