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Governor Nikki Haley issued a statewide proclamation Friday designating November 14, 2014 as World Diabetes Day in South Carolina. The Governor’s Mansion was also lit blue in recognition of this day. Approximately 800,000 South Carolinians are affected by type 1 or type 2 diabetes and more than 250 million people around the world suffer from diabetes with only 25-50 percent […]
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men behind only lung cancer, according to health experts. Studies show that 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer, and almost 233,000 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed this year. However, more than 2.5 million men in the United States who have had prostate […]
New data released today by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) shows a significant reduction in South Carolina’s infant mortality rate. An analysis of the agency’s 2013 data shows that between 2005 and 2013, the state’s infant mortality rate dropped by over 25 percent, from 9.5 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2005 to 6.9 in 2013. […]
The South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control today issued a Public Health Order (PHO) to create a statewide Health Preparedness Network (HPN), which will provide for essential email communications to a central database of key individuals and facilities who are on the front lines of South Carolina’s preparedness capabilities when dealing with potentially serious health threats like the […]
United States Congressman Mark Sanford recently appeared on The Bryan Crabtree Show to talk about the Ebola crisis that’s caused fear in people all over the world. Sanford recently attended a Congressional hearing put on by the United States Department of Homeland Security to discuss the Ebola epidemic. “I walked away with, frankly, as many questions as I did answers […]
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announced today that it has been notified of the state’s first flu-associated death of the season. “Tragically, an individual from the Midlands region has become our first lab-confirmed, influenza-associated death of the season,” said Linda Bell, M.D. and state epidemiologist. “We are in the beginning stages of our state’s flu season. […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded a $3.52 million grant to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to support the implementation of cross-cutting approaches to promote health and prevent and control chronic diseases and risk factors that are linked to obesity. The funding focuses on healthy eating and active living, diabetes, and […]
South Carolina’s teen birth rate has declined more than 50 percent since the early nineties. According to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, the state’s teen birth rate has fallen 54 percent from 1992-2013. This includes a substantial decrease between 2012 and 2013 when the teen birth rate declined by 13 percent. Declines over the last two […]
Promising technology born at the Medical University of South Carolina Healthcare Simulation Center is now available as an improvement to Laerdal Medical’s SimMom, a manikin that simulates childbirth for medical training. The MUSC Foundation for Research Development filed the patent application for the adaptation and exclusively licensed it for commercial purposes to Laerdal, which recently made the new module available […]
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) Director Catherine Templeton and the South Carolina Obesity Council, today unveiled the state’s first-ever obesity action plan, SCaledown.org. A culmination of collaborative efforts, the initiative focuses on both long-term and short-term strategies that can be immediately implemented to begin reducing the rate of obesity in the Palmetto State. “Obesity kills […]
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