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Southeast Minnesota Beacon Develops Asthma Management Toolkit for Schools

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Lacey A. Hart / SE Minnesota Beacon Program Manager

When a child suffers an asthma attack at school, getting the right care at the right time is critical. To respond effectively, school employees need more than quick thinking and general training—they need sound policies and specific action plans that address the needs of individual students.The Southeast Minnesota Beacon Community Program, which promotes health information exchange in its 11-county service area, has launched a school asthma management program. The

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Cheddar Potato Soup Recipe

Nothing warms body and soul in January more than a simmering pot of soup. No wonder it has been dubbed National Soup Month.

Making a pot of soup involves more than haphazardly throwing a bunch of ingredients into a pot of water and hoping for the best. I carefully choose each ingredient. Texture and color matter. Taste and smell matter. Everything matters. My soup is art.

Soup begins with a quality stock—never out of a jar, can, or box; and certainly not water with bouillon cubes added. To get healthy stock, you must simmer bones, with a little apple cider vinegar added, for several hours. T

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Whatever your reason is for not wanting to hit the gym, Kristin Knee of Flirty Girl Fitness understands.

“I don’t even want to go to my own studio when it’s raining,” she said with a laugh.

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New rules limit shot availability at Brazos County Health Department

The Texas Department of State Health Services is implementing new rules that may prevent some residents from continuing to obtain vaccinations from the Brazos County Health Department.

The changes will go into effect on Jan. 1.

Under the new rules, only uninsured adults 19 years and older can be vaccinated at the health department.

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Call for Proposals: Great Cities Faculty Scholar Competition, 2012-2013

The Great Cities Institute is inviting proposals for its seventeenth annual Faculty Scholar competition.

Competition Theme: Envisioning Equality

For the 2012-2013 competition all proposals must address the theme of Envisioning Equality. The Institute encourages interdisciplinary collaboration and synergies among the cohort of individual faculty scholars and research teams. Proposals addressing issues of equality and inequality in society may come from a broad array of disciplines reaching across the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and professional fields.

Applicants are urged to be creative in thinking about how their research area intersects with the topic; please treat the above description as mainly illustrative.

Proposals from individual researchers and research teams will be accepted.

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