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Nuevos datos del informe del Director General de Salud Pública de los Estados Unidos sobre las desigualdades relacionadas con el tabaco revelan que el diseño y la comercialización agresiva de productos de tabaco aromatizado, incluidos los cigarrillos mentolados, han impulsado las inequidades de salud relacionadas con el tabaco, reavivando los llamados en la ciudad de Nueva York para poner fin a la venta de cigarrillos mentolados.

State Lawmakers Must Prioritize Investing in Programs that Reduce Tobacco Use 

FRANKFORT, KY – Cancer patients, survivors and advocates are marking the American Cancer Society's 48th annual Great American Smokeout® by calling on elected officials across the state to do more to reduce tobacco use.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN –Cancer patients, survivors and advocates are marking the American Cancer Society's 48th annual Great American Smokeout® by calling on elected officials across the state to do more to reduce tobacco use.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Cover Alabama and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) unveiled a new billboard today near Jackson Hospital, calling attention to the critical need for Medicaid expansion to strengthen health care access and reinforce Alabama’s hospitals.

Legislation will eliminate costly barriers to follow up breast cancer screening

South Dakota voters on Tuesday passed Amendment F, which would change the state constitution to allow for work requirements to be added to the state’s Medicaid expansion program.

S.2971, An Act relative to medically necessary breast screenings and exams for equity and early detection requires that health plans regulated by the Commonwealth cover medically necessary screening and diagnostic breast imaging with no out- of-pocket costs.

Today, six organizations representing millions of patients and providers, filed an amicus curiae, or “friend-of-the-court,” brief in the case of American Clinical Laboratory Association et al v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas.

PIERRE, SD – Ahead of Election Day next week, leaders from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids express their concerns around South Dakota Initiated Measure 28, urging South Dakotans to vote “no” on the b