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The Los Alamos Heart Council
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
y 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.
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What You Need to Know
about H1N1 Influenza
Vaccine Availability
Compiled by the from information provided by the
New Mexico Department of Health
For the Heart Council
By Megan Pfeffer, RN (Nurse Manager, Los Alamos Public Health Office),
Phil Taylor (Director, Los Alamos county Office of Emergency Management)
and Ann ReVelle (President, Los Alamos Heart Council)
The H1N1 flu 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 defined 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 flu; 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 flu vaccine) Thimerosal-free is the first 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 influenza 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/h1n1flu/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 flu vaccine demand for the
four target groups has been met, local providers will be notified that they can adminis-
ter the vaccine to healthy people ages 25 through 64 years. Then, once demand for H1N1
influenza vaccine among younger age groups is met, vaccination will be expanded to all
people age 65 and older.
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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
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mans, since timekeeping systems are similar in all mam-
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The SCN contains both clock cells (which express a gene
call per1) and non-clock cells. For years, circadian-biology
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of the clock’s inner workings.
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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
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The researchers found that during the day, SCN cells ex-
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fire. They fire for a brief period around dusk, then remain
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“The old theory was that the cells in the SCN which con-
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clock mechanism are silent during the day, when everybody
thought they were firing fast,” Diekman said.
Piggins said the findings “force us to completely reas-
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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-
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Science Foundation
Graduate Research
Fellow. Forger is an
Air Force Office of
Scientific Research
Young Investigator.
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