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Those damaging sequestration cuts | Continuing resolution's short-term savings will result in long-term costs
By Merrill Goozner | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Congress' across-the-board sequestration cuts may deliver short-term savings, but at the expense of the long-term investment needed to generate even greater savings down the road.
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Flu vaccinations peaked last year, but still short of goals
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Influenza vaccinations among children and healthcare personnel reached record levels last year, according to federal officials, but the overall vaccination rate remained short of meeting goals of minimizing the risk of a potential outbreak.
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Sparking controversy | Rise in e-cigarette use has public health experts questioning their safety, effectiveness as harm-reduction device
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 21, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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Gonorrhea strain makes CDC issue warning of 'urgent threat'
By CNBC.com | September 19, 2013
For the first time in its history, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is categorizing drug-resistant superbugs by threat level. On Monday, the CDC issued its highest level of warning for a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea—saying the sexually transmitted disease is an "urgent...
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Woman featured in stark CDC anti-smoking ads dies
By Associated Press | September 17, 2013
A North Carolina woman featured prominently in a graphic government ad campaign to get people to stop smoking died Monday of cancer.
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E-cigarette use doubled among youth in 2012, researchers find
By Steven Ross Johnson | September 06, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The percentage of young people who use electronic cigarettes doubled in 2012 compared with the previous year, according to federal researchers.
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CDC announces state funding to bolster against infectious diseases
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 21, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
More than $75 million will go to states to help strengthen their response to a variety of infectious diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday.
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2 Texas patients who received recalled drug die
By Juan Carlos Llorca / Associated Press | August 16, 2013
Texas health officials say no link has been found between a compounded drug and the death of two patients who developed blood infections after receiving it before its recall. The product, calcium gluconate manufactured by Specialty Compounding, Cedar Park, Texas, was distributed to Texas hospitals...
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Vital Signs
Annual cost of excessive drinking $223.5B, CDC says
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 13, 2013
The high cost of excessive drinking can be tallied in billions of dollars for health costs, lost productivity, criminal justice expenses and property damage, a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found.
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Delta states get $5.4M in grants to target chronic disease
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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