THE BOPPY COMPANY DONATES 100 BOPPY PILLOWS TO NEW ORLEANS NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP FOR MOTHER'S DAY
The Boppy Company, maker of the award-winning Boppy® Feeding and Infant Support Pillow, has donated 100 Boppy® Slipcovered Pillows to the New Orleans Nurse-Family Partnership to give to first-time moms living in poverty through The Boppy Effect™: Get One, Give One program. This Mother’s Day gift is part of a larger donation by The Boppy Company, which has pledged to donate up to $250,000 worth of Boppy Slipcovered Pillows to Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) programs across the United States.

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LSUHSC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCES ITS 2013 HONORS DAY
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 the LSUHSC School of Public Health Announces its 2013 Honors Day.  The selected students from the candidates for a Master of Public Health will present their culminating experience projects. Student Posters will be on display beginning at 10:00am at Lions Eye Clinic Building, 2nd floor Lobby. A light lunch at noon will be followed by the Oral Presentations in the Medical Education Building, Room S4. Everyone is invited to attend. This event is sponsored by the LSUHSC School of Public Health’s Office of Academic Affairs and the LSUHSC School of Public Health’s chapter of Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.

LSU LOUISIANA TUMOR REGISTRY JOURNAL ARTICLE SELECTED AS BEST IN THE U.S.
The Journal of Registry Management, the official journal of the National Cancer Registrars Association, has selected a submission from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health’s Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) as the best paper of 2012. “Evaluating Factors Associated with Unknown SEER Summary Stage 2000 Derived from Collaborative Stage at Central Registry Level,” was written by Dr. Mei-Chin Hsieh, instructor, with other LSU co-authors Dr. Qingzhao Yu, associate professor of biostatistics, Dr. Xiao-Cheng Wu, associate professor and assistant director of the LTR, and Dr. Ying Fan, associate professor of biostatistics.

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