It’s hard to nail down one cause of preterm birth or why numbers are going up, but it can be an indicator of other health problems in play.
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Alaska’s top tribal health executive has resigned
Andy Teuber has been ANTHC’s president since 2008, and he also serves as chief executive of Kodiak’s tribal health care provider, the Kodiak Area Native Association. Teuber sits on the University of Alaska Board of Regents, as well.
‘Many reasons to be optimistic’: Alaska’s daily COVID-19 cases hit 5-month low
Hospitalizations have also dropped to their lowest levels since July, with 33 Alaskans being treated for confirmed COVID-19 cases.
To protect her community, St. Paul mom isolated for 10 weeks before having twins in Anchorage
Alaska women who live in rural and remote communities usually travel to city centers to give birth against incredible geographical odds. COVID-19 can make a hard trip longer and lonelier.
Alaska’s Pacific Islanders are being hit hard by COVID-19. But they aren’t getting vaccinated.
Pacific Islanders and Native Hawaiians are about ten times less likely to be vaccinated than the general population — and ten times more likely to die of COVID-19.
The Trump administration joined with tribes to get vaccines to rural and Indigenous Alaskans. Here’s how.
So far, the federal government has distributed more than 35,000 doses to Alaska tribes — on top of the 78,000 doses it’s delivered to Alaska’s state government. And more than 250,000 doses have been dedicated to tribes nationwide through the Indian Health Service.
Alaska hospitals find bonus COVID-19 vaccine doses in their Pfizer vials
As providers at the Alaska Native Medical Center began injecting workers with the new COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech this week, they started noticing something surprising: Leftover liquid in each five-dose vial, sometimes enough for a full extra dose or even two.
Officials say Juneau health care worker’s anaphylactic reaction to COVID-19 vaccine was nation’s first
Despite her reaction, the woman was still enthusiastic about the vaccine and was disappointed that she’d lost her opportunity to get a second dose a few weeks later, one of her doctors said.
Hospital workers get first COVID-19 vaccinations in Alaska
The first doses of the coronavirus vaccine were administered in Alaska on Tuesday morning.
Here’s what it’s like to be medevaced to Anchorage from rural Alaska with COVID-19
When elder Esther Green was medevaced to Anchorage, no one could accompany her. Later, while undergoing treatment in Providence Hospital’s intensive care unit, they could not visit or talk to her for more than two weeks.