Healthy Community movement shifts to assets and capacities
A speaker argues that successful communities build from local assets and citizen groups rather than just addressing needs. He contrasts two paths: fix what is wrong versus leverage strengths, urging involvement in a local Healthy Community effort and offering to connect interested readers via a contact number.
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New asthma drugs bring hope and challenges to patients
The piece traces rising asthma rates in the United States, the burden of hospitalizations and deaths, and the promise of new drugs and devices from Merck, Glaxo Wellcome, Astra, and others. It notes concerns about growth effects from corticosteroids, physician time, and patient adherence, while highlighting once daily pills and breath activated inhalers like Diskus, Turbuhaler, and Xopenex as advances.
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Gail Shapiro
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Cancer group urges offering tamoxifen to at risk women
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American Society of Clinical Oncology
Rowan T. Chlebowski
University of California At
Los Angeles
Food and Drug Administration
Janie Cauley
University of Pittsburgh
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