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The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) provide links, updates and information on the Swine Flu outbreak: http://www.cdc.gov/?s_cid=swineFlu_outbreak_004

The 4th edition of Understanding Aphasia: a Guide for Family and Friends, by Martha Taylor Sarno, M.A., M.D. (hon.) is now available from the Publications Office, Education Center of NYU Langone Medical Center. First published in 1958, and translated into 12 languages, this booklet was one of the earliest examples of educational material about aphasia ever written for non-professionals. Now in its 4th edition, this illustrated booklet is organized in a question-and-answer format. (6 x 9 inches, 42 pages.) Single copies are $5.00 and orders for more than 20 copies are $3.00 per copy.

The National Library of Medicine has a new medical words online tutorial for consumers. This includes instruction about meanings of root words, word parts, putting word parts together, and abbreviations that are commonly used in health care settings. Through this tutorial the public can find useful tips in decoding terms about classes of body parts, procedures, and conditions. Also helpful are explanations of Greek root words and abbreviations used on prescription labels.

Sugarstats.com (http://www.sugarstats.com/) is a new, interactive web site for people with diabetes. Users can create free, personal accounts which allow them track and monitor blood sugar levels and other statistics related to their diabetic condition. They can also give others passworded permission to access the account, such as doctors and other medical care providers, family and friends. Unlike pencil and paper logs, Sugarstats allows users to access and enter data from any internet-connected computer.

NYU Langone Medical Center Cardiac & Vascular Institute partners with the American Heart Association for the NYU Go Red for Women Day.

In honor of Go Red Day, NYULMC Cardiac & Vascular Institute will sponsor a health fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, February 6, 2009.  Click here to learn more about Go Red Day!

http://cvi.med.nyu.edu/patients/our-divisions/womens-heart-center/go-red-day-2009

October is Health Literacy Month.  Pfizer's Clear Health Communication Initiative defines health literacy as "the ability to read, understand and act upon health information."  How can you become more health literate? 

NYU Medical Center’s ADA-certified Diabetes Education Program has been relocated to the 1st floor of Schwartz Health Care Building, Room 103 from its former location on the 14th floor. Now located next door to the Blood Donor Center, the Diabetes Education Center shares this refurbished space with the Medical Center’s consumer health library, the Patient & Family Resource Center.

Always available in both English and Spanish, http://medlineplus.gov/, the premier consumer health information website, has added health information in 44 languages about selected health conditions.

Some of the internationally prominent, new languages that have been added include: French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. But there also is new health information (with English translation) in: Navajo, Samoan, Vietnamese, Polish, Arabic and Farsi, among others. All foreign languages in MedlinePlus are accompanied an English equivalent.