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The Los Alamos Heart Council serves people of all ages with edu-cational programs in Northern New Mexico that promote heart

health and wellness. The Los Alamos Heart Council Health Fair began in 1986 as

an idea at a Heart Council meeting proposed by Dr. Carolyn Linnebur and Mahavir Jain. It began with a small number of booths in Fuller Lodge, then the Community Building was added,

and then it moved to Los Alamos High School. It has been held in Griffith gym for approximately 15 years. At this time the gym is filled

to capacity with over 60 exhibitor booths. Most years there is a waiting list for exhibitors to obtain a booth due to the popularity and stellar reputation of this annual event.

Historically, the roots of the Heart Council go back to the mid-1950s when it was one of several organizations in Los Alamos to be funded by the Community Chest. The Heart Council in its present form was created in 1984 from members of the Los Alamos Chapter of the American Heart Association.

Funding from the United Way supports the annual Los Alamos Heart Council Health Fair, the annual February Community Seminars in both Los Alamos and Española and heart health related materials gifted to the public libraries in Los Alamos and Rio Arriba County. United Way supported programs specifically for youth include walking clubs in Los Alamos elementary schools, LAPS District Science Fair awards, bicycle safety promotion of free bike helmets for the first 180 children accompanied by a parent at the Annual Heart Council Health Fair and a Heart Smart Poster Contest cosponsored by the Family YMCA. Other programs include a Heart Healthy Cooking School, programs related to National AED/CPR Awareness Week (the first week in June) and National Wear Red Day (to increase awareness of Women and Heart Disease).

Our programs teach YOU how to love your heart. The majority of our funds come from the Northern New Mexico United Way,

which serves Los Alamos and Rio Arriba County. In addition, we accept donations and memorials. We are an all-volunteer 501C(3) non-profit organization with a Board of nine members that oversees our work and a larger “council” that consists of committed members who are interested in assisting us in following our VISION of “Promoting Heart Health and Wellness in Our Communities.”

Heart Council members cannot always attend meetings regularly, but contribute in significant ways. They are local doctors, nurses, bankers, retirees and teens from LAHS, Lab employees, LAMC Cardiac Rehab employees, and others who care about heart health in our community. The council elects the members of the Board at our annual meeting each November.

For information visit our website at: www.losalamosheartcouncil.org or contact a member of the Board.

So come to the Health Fair on Saturday Oct. 24 from 8 a.m.-noon in Griffith Gym at Los Alamos High School. A limited number of free seasonal flu shots and significant-ly reduced blood work will be available as well as free screenings. There are some 60 booths from organizations and businesses that serve all ages in our community promoting health, fitness, nutrition, safety and medical services.

The Los Alamos Heart Council

Compiled by the from information provided by the New Mexico Department of Health

For the Heart CouncilBy Megan Pfeffer, RN (Nurse Manager, Los Alamos Public Health Offi ce),Phil Taylor (Director, Los Alamos county Offi ce of Emergency Management) and Ann ReVelle (President, Los Alamos Heart Council)

The H1N1 fl u vaccine is slowly becoming available. For details, look for press an-nouncements or contact the county KAN-DU info line at *311 or from your cell: 662-8333.

The vaccine will be distributed according to priority groups defi ned by the Centers for Disease Control and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices:

Group 1: HIGHEST PRIORITY• Pregnant women;• Household members/caretakers of infants less than 6 months old;• Children 6-59 months of age;• Children 5 to 18 years with certain chronic health conditions that increase their risk

of complications from fl u; and • Health care workers and emergency medical service personnel with direct patient care.

Group 2:• Adults 25-64 years of age with chronic health conditions, • All persons aged 5–24 years of age, and• Health care and emergency medical services personnel without direct patient care.

Group 3:• Adults 25-64 without chronic health conditions.

Group 4: LOWEST PRIORITY• Adults 65 years and older.

As the demand for vaccine in each of the priority groups is met, vaccine will be of-fered to the next group depending on which type of vaccine is available, e.g. the Live attenuated vaccine (nasal fl u vaccine) Thimerosal-free is the fi rst to be released and its target population is Children without chronic health conditions and it is approved for Ages 2-49 Years.

Since pregnant women are in the highest PRIORITY GROUP, it is important to realize why this is the recommendation.

Data from early 2009 H1N1 infl uenza cases in the United States show that pregnant women account for a disproportionate number of deaths, making them a high-priority group for vaccination (see www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61304-0/abstract). Also, guidance has been issued for clinicians to promptly treat pregnant women who become infected with the 2009 H1N1 virus with antiviral drugs (seewww.cdc.gov/h1n1fl u/clinician_pregnant.htm).

Note that adults age 65+ are in the lowest priority group 4. This is partly because their risk is less and because 60+ adults seem to have some degree of preexisting im-munity. If people 65+ are included in another higer priority group they should get the vaccine according to that schedule, e.g. household members/caretakers of infants less than 6 months old, which would put them in priority group 1.

Once public health authorities determine that the H1N1 fl u vaccine demand for the four target groups has been met, local providers will be notifi ed that they can adminis-ter the vaccine to healthy people ages 25 through 64 years. Then, once demand for H1N1 infl uenza vaccine among younger age groups is met, vaccination will be expanded to all people age 65 and older.

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1. Does My Child Have H1N1 (Swine) Flu?The symptoms of H1N1 fl u are similar to symptoms of regular infl uenza. Your child may

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• Other members of the household should also stay home if they begin to develop any fever with cough, sore throat, body aches, runny nose or headache.

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until everyone in the household has been free of symptoms for fi ve days. • COVER YOUR COUGH AND SNEEZE with the crook of your elbow or use a tissue and

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The Heart Hospital of New Mexico, located off I-25 near downtown Albuquerque, isn’t just a hospital – it’s a special place. Our compassionate focus on patient-centered care and continued investments in technology are why we’ve been ranked as the num-ber one cardiac program in New Mexico by independent research organizations.To our staff, it’s not just a job – it’s a calling. And to our patients, it’s not just a visit – it’s an experience. The Heart Hospital of New Mexico is truly a hospital with heart, with board-certifi ed physicians and experienced nurses who are invested in the outcomes of our patients. Since opening in 1999, it’s been our goal for every one of our patients to leave us with a new beginning.

Here are the facts:More satisfi ed patients and more who would recommend us to others than any hospital in the state.

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More heart procedures than any other facility in New Mexico. We perform more heart surgeries than any other healthcare provider in the state,

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The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) has awarded our Chest Pain Center a full accreditation with PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention). This distinguished “seal of approval” demonstrates our expertise and commitment to quality heart care by meeting or exceeding a wide set of stringent criteria for acute cardiac medicine and completing a rigorous on-site evaluation.

Caring for the heart, close to home.When it comes to matters of the heart, second best won’t do. Learn more about us at www.hearthospitalnm.com and please contact us if you have any questions. We accept Blue Cross Blue Shield, Medicare and Medicaid.

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Understanding how the human biological clock works is an essential step toward correcting sleep problems like insomnia and jet lag. New insights about the body’s central pacemaker might also, someday, advance efforts to treat diseases infl uenced by the internal clock, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and mood disorders, said University of Michigan mathematician Daniel Forger.

“Knowing what the signal is will help us learn how to ad-just it, in order to help people,” said Forger, an associate professor of mathematics and a member of the U-M’s Cen-ter for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. “We have cracked the code and the information could have a tremendous impact on all sorts of diseases that are affected by the clock.”

The body’s main time-keeper resides in a region of the central brain called the suprachiasmatic nuclei, or SCN. For decades, researchers have believed that it is the rate at which SCN cells fi re electrical pulses–fast during the day and slow at night–that controls time-keeping throughout the body.

Imagine a metronome in the brain that ticks quickly throughout the day, then slows its pace at night. The rest of the body hears the ticking and adjusts its daily rhythms, also known as circadian rhythms, accordingly.

That’s the idea that has prevailed for more than two de-cades. But new evidence compiled by Forger and his col-

leagues shows that “the old model is, frankly, wrong,” Forg-er said.

The true signaling mechanism is very different: The tim-ing signal sent from the SCN is encoded in a complex fi ring pattern that had previously been overlooked, the research-ers concluded. Forger and U-M graduate student Casey Diekman, along with Dr. Mino Belle and Hugh Piggins of the University of Manchester in England, report their fi nd-ings in the Oct. 9 edition of .

To test predictions made by Forger and Diekman’s math-ematical model, the British scientists collected data on fi r-ing patterns from more than 400 mouse SCN cells. The U-M scientists then plugged the experimental results into their model and found that “the experimental data were almost exactly what the model had predicted,” Forger said.

Though the experiments were done with mice, Forger said it’s likely that the same mechanism is at work in hu-mans, since timekeeping systems are similar in all mam-mals.

The SCN contains both clock cells (which express a gene call per1) and non-clock cells. For years, circadian-biology researchers have been recording electrical signals from a mix of both types of cells. That led to a misleading picture of the clock’s inner workings.

But Forger’s British colleagues were able to separate clock cells from non-clock cells by zeroing in on the ones that ex-pressed the per1 gene. Then they recorded electrical signals produced exclusively by those clock cells. The pattern that emerged bolstered the audacious new theory.

“This is a perfect example of how a mathematical model can make predictions that are completely at odds with the

prevailing views yet, upon further experimentation, turn out to be dead-on,” Forger said.

The researchers found that during the day, SCN cells ex-pressing per1 sustain an electrically excited state but do not fi re. They fi re for a brief period around dusk, then remain quiet throughout the night before releasing another burst of activity around dawn. This fi ring pattern is the signal, or code, the brain sends to the rest of the body so it can keep time.

“The old theory was that the cells in the SCN which con-tain the clock are fi ring fast during the day but slow at night. But now we’ve shown that the cells that actually contain the clock mechanism are silent during the day, when everybody thought they were fi ring fast,” Diekman said.

Piggins said the fi ndings “force us to completely reas-sess what we thought we knew about electrical activity in the brain’s circadian clock.” In addition, the results dem-onstrate the importance of interdisciplinary collaborative research, he said.

“This work also raises important questions about wheth-er the brain acts in an analog or a digital way,” Belle said.

Diekman is a doctoral student in bioinformatics, as well as industrial and op-erations engineer-ing. He is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Forger is an Air Force Offi ce of Scientifi c Research Young Investigator.

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