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| Congress should increase federal funding to allow state health departments to hire an additional 100,000 state and local public health employees, the presidents of three national public health organizations said today in a letter to two senators who were holding a hearing on health reform legislation. Citing serious shortages in the public health work force, the heads of Partnership for Prevention, the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), said their proposal would be consistent with President-elect... |
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| States spend a staggering 14.7 billion dollars each year to treat new cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STD), and a new study by the American Social Health Association (ASHA) finds much more can be done to stem the epidemic.
With 19 million new STD infections each year in the U.S. (a rate of 36 every minute), it might be surprising that states invest on average only $0.23 per capita for STD prevention. The ASHA study found that on average states fund less than 25% of their STD prevention effort. |
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| With roughly 20,000 new cases reported each year to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in the United States. As infections increase, the need for research becomes clear. |
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| Senator Edward Kennedy To Be Honored for Leadership on Right to Health |
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| My Bank Tracker assists in the launch of the KCA College 2008 Dreams Come True event. |
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| For almost a quarter-century the AIDS establishment has drummed into our heads that the HIV virus is the sole cause of AIDS, an epidemic that has already killed more than 25 million people worldwide since 1981. AIDS research is entirely consumed with the development and sale of expensive "anti-virals", which many can't afford. |
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| Nine years after its use was banned, statistics show that nearly 4,000 people in the UK die each year from the effects of asbestos exposure whilst at work. |
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| BlogCatalog is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy's AIDS.gov (AIDS.gov) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) for "Bloggers Unite for World AIDS Day 2008" on Dec. 1. This event encourages bloggers from around the world to dedicate their blog posts on December 1, 2008 (World AIDS Day) to issues related to HIV/AIDS. The goal is to leverage the power of the blogosphere to remind people that HIV/AIDS is still a critical issue in the U.S. and around the world, and to promote HIV testing. |
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| Leading food safety lawyer Fred Pritzker calls on U.S. regulators to add non-0157:H7 forms of E. coli to its list of adulterants in ground beef. Currently, only E. coli 0157:H7 is designated as an adulterant in raw ground beef. Other strains of E. coli, such as E. coli 0111, are just as virulent and deserve equally stringent regulation. |
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| HOE Ministries, Inc. (Hope for Orphans of Ethiopia), www.hoeministries.org , is a non profit Christian organization founded in January 2007, committed to reaching out to the impoverished orphan children of Ethiopia. |
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