Avoiding Hepatitis C Education Summary
South Texas Regional Medical Center presents guidance on hepatitis C as a preventable, yet often asymptomatic liver disease. Key facts cover transmission routes for pre-1992 blood products, safer personal care items, tattoo and piercing decontamination, and the lack of a vaccine with available treatments and testing options.
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South Texas Regional Medical Center
Center For Disease Control
Folic acid awareness lags in women of childbearing age
Gallup March of Dimes survey finds 69 percent of American women 18 45 do not take folic acid daily though 80 percent know its birth defect protection. Only 31 percent take a daily vitamin with folic acid. awareness has risen but action remains limited with health professional advice seen as key. In Texas 21 percent of 18 44 year olds take folic acid daily and 61 percent are aware of it. The data come from 2002 Gallup surveys of 2,004 women, with CDC support and education campaigns ongoing nationwide.
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Gallup Organization
Texas
Jennifer L. Howse
San Antonio
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United States
U.S. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Texas Legal Aid Tackles Child Care Crisis
Texas Legal Services Center launches advocacy and outreach led by Marcia C. Rachofsky to help families secure TANF work requirements and child care subsidies. Waiting lists exceed two years as slots remain scarce. only about one in ten Texas children needing care receive it.
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TANF
Texas Legal Services Center
Marcia C. Rachofsky
Texas Workforce Commission
Rachofsky
Texas Child Care Subsidy Project
Sports Supplements Use Surges Among Adults and Teens
A Blue Cross Blue Shield Association survey projects nearly 17 million adults and about 1 million youths aged 12 to 17 use sports supplements and performance enhancing drugs amid weight loss and fitness goals. Further details at healthycompetition.org.
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Blue Shield Association
Healthycompetition.org
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