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600 Advocates Meet with Lawmakers at Annual ACS CAN Lobby Day
... treatment. Volunteers asked their representatives to restore this critical funding. Improve patientsÈ quality of life through palliative care . Palliative care, an extra layer of support for patients with serious chronic diseases, ensures that health care providers are treating the disease while also ensuring the best possible quality of life for the patient. Advocates asked their ...
HOW DO YOU MEASURE UP?
... little or nothing to do the right thing. In most cases, these solutions will save the state millions and perhaps billions of dollars through health care cost reductions and increased worker productivity. So, how does your state measure up? Read the report: How Do You Measure Up? HOW DO ...
Proposed NIH Budget Cuts Could Devastate Medical Innovation and Cripple Critical Cancer Research and Prevention Efforts
Washington, D.C., —Today the president introduced his proposed 2018 budget, which includes deep cuts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Medicaid. If approved by Congress, the cuts ... cuts combined with the more than $600 billion reduction for Medicaid funding, could leave millions of Americans without access to meaningful health care and prevention services. “To date, the federal government has played a critical role in our ability to reduce the cancer burden. Such ...
Step It Up! The Surgeon General Wants More Walking
... General has released a new call to action to promote walking and walkable communities. Call to actions look in-depth at a public health issue and identify ways that government, business, and the community-at-large can work together to address the issue. The issue outlined in ...