Life Expectancy Reaches New High Across U S
The CDC reports the average life expectancy rose to 76.1 years, aided by declines in homicide death rates among youths and coronary deaths in older adults. AIDS mortality dropped sharply to 11.6 per 100 000, shifting the leading killer status. Kimberley Peters of the CDC called the trends good news for Americans.
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Kimberley Peters
Centers For Disease Can and Prevention
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EPA targets tougher air pollution controls across eastern states
The EPA plans stricter nitrogen oxide limits in 22 states from Illinois to West Virginia to curb smog forming chemicals drifting across state lines. The reductions, staggered up to seven years, aim to slash emissions by about 1.2 million tons, addressing health standards raised last summer and impacting coal burning utilities in the Ohio Valley.
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Center For Clean Air Policy
Missing plane swallows eight federal workers in Colorado
Searchers completed a second day scanning snow bound forest for a chartered single engine Cessna carrying eight Bureau of Reclamation employees and a pilot. The group vanished Wednesday after takeoff from Montrose en route to a meeting near Page Arizona. Radar showed a possible crash site on a plateau 23 miles south of Montrose. 30 planes and 24 ground personnel pressed the hunt as daybreak neared.
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More Women Get Mammograms in Study
In a CDC survey, nearly 70 percent of women aged 40 and older reported having a mammogram in the previous two years, rising from 53 percent in 1989. The 1995 study questioned over 50 thousand women across 39 states, with West Virginia and New York showing the greatest progress.
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