Health improves for Americans despite pockets of concern
Health and Human Services reports Americans live longer and healthier lives with lower heart attack and stroke deaths and falling infant mortality. Life expectancy rises as smoking declines among men, though women's smoking remains high with 34.8 percent of men current smokers.
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Washington
Department of Health and Human Services
HHS
Margaret M. Heckler
United States
Health notes show rising life expectancy and falling infant deaths
A 1983 analysis finds a newborn can expect to live 74.7 years with girls at 78.3 and boys at 71.0. Whites outlive blacks but the gap narrows from 8.4 to 5.6 years since 1950. 65 year olds in 1983 may live 16.8 more years, up from 15.2 in 1970. Infant mortality falls to 10.9 per 1000 live births from 11.2 in 1982.
Heckler cites alarming teen cocaine use and plans new anti drug efforts
Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler told a Senate subcommittee that a survey found 6 percent of high school seniors used cocaine last year. She warned the drug, once expensive, is more available at lower prices and spreading beyond the affluent to vulnerable teens.
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Washington
Health and Human Services
Margaret M. Heckler
Treating infected mothers to curb infant hepatitis
CHICAGO AP Mothers who are silent carriers of hepatitis B could mainly prevent passing it to newborns with immediate treatment. Thousands live with the disease, few die, but many become carriers risking chronic liver disease or cancer. Dr Saul Krugman notes carriers can look healthy and infect babies who show no illness. AIDS appears unlikely to spread by casual contact after French studies found no infection in U S medical workers exposed before contagion was known.
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Chicago
Saul Krugman
New York University College of Medicine
New York
U.S
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