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Healthy Start Coalition — February Board Meeting

When: February 21, 2013 Location: NEFL Healthy Start Coalition — Conference Room, 644 Cesery Blvd. Ste. 210, Jacksonville, FL Time: 9 am

Florida KidCare mobile app available

Need low-cost health insurance for your uninsured children? There’s an app for that. Florida KidCare, the state children’s health insurance program, launched a mobile application called “FL KidCare” that can be…

Show Your Love this Valentine’s Day

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.

Stay Teen launches new birth control finder

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…

New prenatal test can detect genetic abnormalities at just 10 weeks

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…

AHCA adds new “Deliveries and Newborns” page to FloridaHealthFinder.gov

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…

Fla. Attorney General releases Final Report of the Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns

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…

Jacksonville Children’s Commission releases 2011-2012 annual report

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…

Breastfeeding linked to healthy weight for mother and baby

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…

Breastfeeding increases risk of mother-to-infant HIV transmission

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…