{"title":"Sled docs. Physicians & the Iditarod: Dr. Bob Bundtzen.","authors":"Dave Rush","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"51 ","pages":"21-3, 26, 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28584298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Sled docs' and quest for adventure in Alaska.","authors":"Dave Rush","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"51 ","pages":"4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28584406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Above & beyond: the heroes among us.","authors":"K T Kelly","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"50 ","pages":"21-3, 25-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27965259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health care access for Alaskan seniors on Medicare: a qualitative study of health care administrator perspectives.","authors":"Jimael Hope Lawson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"50 ","pages":"8, 42-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27965257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alaska's physician shortage: is enough being done to avoid a crisis?","authors":"Brandon Ousley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"50 ","pages":"9-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27965258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhonda M Johnson, Polly Smith, Elise J Strauss, Alison Higgins, David R Jensen, Barry D Weiss
{"title":"Breast cancer screening in an adult literacy program.","authors":"Rhonda M Johnson, Polly Smith, Elise J Strauss, Alison Higgins, David R Jensen, Barry D Weiss","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Individuals with limited literacy have low rates of cancer screening and more advanced cancer when cancer is detected. We implemented breast cancer screening at an adult literacy center to see if students would participate and determine the rate of abnormalities detected.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Anchorage Literacy Project (ALP), in collaboration with Providence Cancer Center (PCC), offered breast cancer screening, including mammograms, on site at ALP to all 40 female ALP students aged > or =40. Prior to screening, PCC and ALP staff provided education to students about breast cancer screening and mammograms, and information about the Alaska Breast and Cervical Health Check program that would pay for treatment if cancer was detected.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-one women underwent screening. Three (14%) had significant abnormalities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cancer screening can be provided on site in adult literacy programs. The rate of abnormalities detected through such screening may be higher than the rate in the general population.</p>","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"49 4","pages":"126-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27451555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne P Lanier, Gretchen Ehrsam Day, Janet J Kelly, Ellen Provost
{"title":"Disparities in cancer mortality among Alaska Native people, 1994-2003.","authors":"Anne P Lanier, Gretchen Ehrsam Day, Janet J Kelly, Ellen Provost","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To provide current data on cancer mortality among Alaska Native people for the period of 1994-2003, and to identify and quantitate cancer disparities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cancer mortality rates for Alaska Native (AN), U.S., White (USW) and other populations were calculated using SEERStat. Ratios of age-adjusted incidence rates with 95% confidence intervals are provided.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Data were from SEERStat. Age-adjusted cancern mortality rates for Alaska Native exceeded those of USW population by 20%. For specific cancer sites, rates were significantly higher among AN people: oral cavity and pharynx (RR=1.9), esophagus (RR=2.0), stomach (RR=3.9), colon and rectum (RR=1.8), liver (RR=1.9), gallbladder (RR=2.6), pancreas (RR=1.3), lung and bronchus (RR=1.2), and kidney and renal pelvis (RR=2.2). In contrast, mortality rates among AN people were significantly lower than USW rates for cancers of the prostate (RR=0.7), brain and nervous system (RR=0.3), lymphoma (RR=0.6), and leukemia (RR=0.4).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Marked disparities in cancer mortality exist among the Alaska Native population compared to the US White population. Excess mortality is documented for all sites combined and for many cancer specific sites. Rates for all cancers combined and for select sites are among the highest of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.</p>","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"49 4","pages":"120-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27451553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plastic bags and botulism: a new twist to an old hazard of the North. 1976.","authors":"Mickey S Eisenberg, Thomas R Bender","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"49 4","pages":"144-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27451557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magnetic toy ingestion: surgical implications.","authors":"Natasha Moussouras, C Allen Pratt, Ian Neilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children often ingest foreign bodies wihtout major consequences. Most foreign bodies will pass through the gastrointestinal tract without any detrimental results although in the case of multiple magnet ingestion, perforation and pressure necrosis, among a host of other possible effects, can occur. We describe a case of multiple bowel perforations as a result of fistulization from magnetic attraction across portions of the intestinal wall that demonstrate the importance in acquiring surgical attention.</p>","PeriodicalId":75464,"journal":{"name":"Alaska medicine","volume":"49 4","pages":"117-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27453744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}