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...served as president of Hunter College in New York City and was the first female chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In her current position, she supervises the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and was instrumental in the re-working of welfare...
...said her colleagues often wondered why she allowed FDA, the CDC and other organizations under her control so much autonomy...
...CDC report, which crystallizes long-standing theories linking smoking with gum disease, follows on the heels of last week?s announcement from the Surgeon General analyzing the various causes and effects of poor oral hygiene. That survey also pinpointed the populations most likely to be affected by gum disease: Black men and low income adults. Those populations are also the most likely to smoke. As grim as the findings may be, health officials sounded optimistic Tuesday as they discussed the implications of the study. Faced with a clear causative relationship between cigarettes and gum disease, officials figure they...
...divorce, and there's reason to be cynical about the Pentagon's record on not hanging servicemen "out to dry" on medical issues. Plenty of veterans of the Free Cigarettes War, the Agent Orange War and the Gulf War Illness War will attest to that. The Pentagon, the CDC and the NIH are all working furiously on a new, safer vaccine, as well as studying ways to make the current one easier on the arm than it is now. Which would only serve to make me feel like a sucker if they, or Congress, get their act together sometime next...
...easy see the news as promising. Abortions are at a two-decade low in relation to the number of able-bodied women in the population, as well as to the number of births. The CDC cites a number of factors for the trend, including more information on, and a corollary willingness to use, contraception, as well as moral climate that more closely examines the need to have an abortion. But the biggest factor could be much more simple than that - studies show that teen and "casual" adult sex have decreased steadily throughout the decade. And since most abortions...