Correctional nurses Margaret Collatt, C. J. Young, and Mari Knight join Lorry to talk about the latest Correctional Health Care News. Pricey Hepatitis C Drugs Can Have Deadly Side-Effect for Some: FDA The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a Black Box Warning to new Hepatitis C pharmaceuticals as reports mount of flare-ups of Hepatitis B in those patients…
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Robert D. Canning, Ph.D., CCHP, is Sr. Psychologist Specialist, Quality Management Program, Statewide Mental Health Program for California Correctional Health Care Services. This post is based on his session “Self-injury: Public Health Surveillance for Quality Improvement” taking place at the 2016 National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Las Vegas, October 22-26, 2016. Self-injury is a growing concern in correctional…
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Vinneth Carvalho MD, Assistant Chief of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut-Correctional Managed Health Care, and Amy B. Smoyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT join Lorry to discuss the importance of food for physical and psychosocial health. They presented a session on “Why Food Matters: Physical and Psychosocial Health of…
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