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Great Minds Thinking Alike
Yesterday was an incredible day at ACS CAN we held our first-ever National Forum on the Future of Health Care and it was a huge success! The conference focused on how to ensure ... cancer and other chronic diseases have access to quality health care. It's a discussion that has grown in intensity since implementation of the Affordable Care Act began, and our forum brought together some of the country's top health care experts to examine the issue. The new ...
Investing in Cures
After years of stalled and anemic funding levels for critical cancer research, Congress came together at the end of last year in a major way to pass the biggest funding increases for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) ... research funding a priority, and we were pleased to have him stand side by side with Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle and ACS CAN volunteers last spring to launch the #OneDegree campaign acknowledging the imperative need for research funding as everyone knows ...
Sequestration Dangerously Cuts Cancer Research Funding
... taking a dangerous hit. Sequestration cuts the NIH budget by $1.6 billion, or 5.1 percent. This brings the agency's spending level to that of FY 2008 without even considering the increased cost of medical research. That could mean 1,380 fewer research grants are funded in FY 2013 and could lead to 20,500 fewer jobs. And as Dr. Ed ... of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center and former National Volunteer President of the American Cancer Society, says, You can't turn research on and off like a light switch. Drastic, disruptive cuts to research funding could put an end to promising research ...
Food Marketing and our Kids
A key government report released last month speaks to the importance of ACS CAN's work on nutrition. The report , issued by the Federal Trade Commission , looked at how much money the food and beverage industry spends ... to kids and teens in 2009, a 19.5 percent decrease from 2006. However, most of that decrease resulted from a shift from TV advertising to lower-cost online, mobile and viral marketing, which increased 50 percent. The report found that most food marketing campaigns directed at children ...
2018 Midterm Elections Result in Critical Public Policy Advances in the Fight Against Cancer
Last Tuesday marked a significant day in our country as we elected officeholders at all levels of government and voted on ballot measures that will impact communities nationwide. Voters made it clear that health care was a defining issue in ... preventing kids from ever becoming addicted – a win-win for the health of Montanans. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) volunteers and staff will not be deterred and will continue advocating for policies proven to save lives in their state. In addition to these ... the passage of their ballot initiative 2B which passed on Tuesday and will raise the price of cigarettes by $3 per pack and increase the cost of other tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, by 40 percent. This move will not only help reduce smoking and smoking-related ...
From Bench to Bedside: Progress at Risk
With across-the-board-federal budget cuts through sequestration set to take effect in less than a month, ACS CAN is strongly urging lawmakers to avert the cuts because of their potentially devastating impact on cancer research. In fact, sequestration would reduce federal funding for cancer research to 2008 levels, and that's without taking into account the increased cost of doing medical research year after year. This severe decrease in funding could halt promising clinical trials and allow breakthroughs in the ...
Critical Actions to Increase Breast Cancer Screening Rates
While we dedicate the month of October to breast cancer awareness, this past Friday was National Mammography Day. Since its inception in 1993, National Mammography Day has ... as a reminder to women to schedule their annual mammogram because early detection saves lives. The Affordable Care Act ensures that most women can receive mammograms at little or no cost starting at age 40, but there are still millions of low-income, uninsured women nationwide with no access to mammograms or other lifesaving ...
Moving Our Mission, One State at a Time
... the COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate our daily lives and continuing the movement to highlight systemic racism. As patient advocates, we can add another “remarkable” to the list: within a five-week period this summer in two states where elected officials had been resistant, ... was accomplished: These mark the fifth and sixth states since 2017 to pass Medicaid expansion via ballot measure, following in the footsteps of Maine, Idaho, Nebraska and Utah. Notably, policymakers in each of these states had historically been reluctant to expand access to care through Medicaid. By no means is a ballot measure always the most ...
Guest Post: On the Front Lines for Our Children
... read on the blog recently , it's a critical time for our nation's school meals program as Congress is attempting to roll back some of the nutrition standards that have already been successfully implemented. Secretary Vilsack's important comments remind us just how crucial it is for the health of our nation for those strong nutrition standards to remain in place. On the Front Lines for Our Children By: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ... as a result of continuing obesity trends. In the battle for our children's future, it is obvious that one of the most powerful things we can do to protect them is to teach them proper nutrition and healthy habits at an early age. These statistics send a dire warning about our ...
World No Tobacco Day: Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden
... policies that we know will help prevent kids from ever starting to smoke and help current adult smokers quit. To mark World No Tobacco Day, ACS CAN is releasing a new report, Protecting Children and Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden: Trading Tobacco Company Protection for Public Health . ... an action Congress can take right now to save lives and protect kids from tobacco around the world. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States and around the world. More than two thirds of tobacco deaths occur in low- and middle-income ... for 870,000 deaths annually in the TPP countries. Tobacco use will kill one billion by the end of this century. Tobacco use will continue to cost the world $1 trillion annually in increased health care spending and lost worker productivity. We know what works to prevent kids from ...