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HHS Offers Flu Vaccine Shortage Recommendations
In reaction to the recent announcement of the loss of the Chiron flu vaccine supply in the United States for the 2004-2005 flu season, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a series of recommendations designed to help distribute the remaining available doses of vaccine to the persons considered most susceptible to the flu virus.

NIH Has Strategy to Fight U.S. Obesity
After investing over $1.2 billion in the government's "war on obesity," the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released the final version of its strategy combat obesity in America.

Dietetic Association Hails New Medicare Obesity Policy
The announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services eliminating terminology that previously restricted Medicare coverage of obesity as a disease represents a significant step toward providing high-quality treatment of obesity and its related conditions to millions more people in the United States, according to the American Dietetic Association.

Ranks of Cancer Survivors Growing, CDC Reports
With the ever-increasing number of cancer survivors in the United States having reached 9.8 million, the need to provide survivors with services, support and a high quality of life has become a new health care challenge, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

158 New Medicines for Children Being Developed
Treatments for asthma, cancer and cystic fibrosis are just a few of the one hundred and fifty-eight new medicines for children are now being tested in clinical trials or awaiting review by the Food and Drug Administration, according to a survey prepared by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).

Summertime is 'High' Time for U.S. Teens
"In the good-old summertime," more American kids try marijuana for the first time than at any other time of year, according to a report from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. According to the report, during each day in June and July, an average of 6,300 youths try marijuana for the first time.

List of Organs Damaged by Smoking Expanded
Smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body, according to a comprehensive report on smoking and health from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Medicare Drug Card Prices Beat Internet & Mail-order
Prices available from Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Cards are lower than current Internet and mail-order pharmacy prices, according to a study by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Travelers' Health Warning System from CDC
Traveling abroad? What to come home healthy? Then before you even pack, you need to check the Centers For Disease Control's system for providing travelers with the latest information about potential health hazards and the steps they can take to protect themselves when traveling abroad.

Medicare Drug Cards a 'Must' for Low-income Beneficiaries
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is advising some seven million Medicare beneficiaries with low incomes that a Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card could save them between 29 and 77 percent on the price of their brand name drugs and as much as 92 percent on generic drugs over the next seven months.

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