(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 27, 2018) – On the heels of the deadliest flu season in 40 years, the Acetaminophen Awareness Coalition is urging consumers to double check their medicine labels when treating cold and...
AUDIO: Amelia Kegan, Domestic Policy Legislative Director, Friends Committee on National Legislation
(Washington, D.C., Tuesday, November 20, 2018) – If partisans in the House of Representatives succeed in pushing their agenda during this lame duck session of Congress, more than 2 million people would no longer be eligible...
AUDIO: Tracey D. Brown, CEO, American Diabetes Association
(Arlington, VA, Wednesday, November 14, 2018) – Over the last 30 years the number of U.S. adults with diabetes increased nearly 300%. This November, the American Diabetes Association is celebrating American Diabetes Month. This year’s theme...
AUDIO: Ginny Ehrlich, CEO, Power to Decide
(Washington D.C., Tuesday, November 13, 2018) – Nearly 8 in 10 (78%) adults in the United States—including 66% of Republicans and 93% of Democrats—consider birth control to be a basic part of women’s health care, according...
AUDIO: Larry Ellingson, a member of the National Diabetes Volunteer Leadership Council and former National Chairman of the Board of the American Diabetes Association
(Seattle, WA, Tuesday, November 13, 2018) – Nationally, one-fifth of people who use sharps outside of a medical facility don’t dispose of them properly, a new survey finds. If you’re a resident of Washington State...
AUDIO: Dr. Linda Nici of Providence VA Medical Center and Brown University Medical School
(New York, NY, Monday, November 12, 2018) – Most people diagnosed with chronic pulmonary disorders (62 percent) have never heard of pulmonary rehabilitation – an effective non-medicine treatment option covered by Medicare and private insurance....
VIDEO: Kenneth E. Thorpe, Chairman of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease and Professor of Health Policy at Emory University
(Washington D.C., Friday, November 9, 2018) – One in 10 Americans lives with type 2 diabetes, and an estimated 1.5 million more are diagnosed each year. Among many communities, diabetes is downplayed as “having a…
AUDIO: Courtney McCormick, Corporate Dietitian, Nutrisystem
(Fort Washington, PA, Thursday, November 8, 2018) – November is American Diabetes Month, and a good time to sort fact from fiction regarding this serious disease. Here are three common diabetes myths — debunked: Myth #1:...
AUDIO: Dr. Desmond Bell, Founder and President, “Save a Leg, Save a Life” Foundation
(Canton, MA, Thursday, November 8, 2018) – If you are one of the 30 million Americans living with diabetes, you may be at risk of developing a serious, non-healing diabetic foot ulcer (DFU). While many DFUs...
AUDIO: Monica M. Bertagnolli, MD, FACS, FASCO, Chief of the Surgical Oncology Division at the Dana Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and ASCO president
(Alexandria, VA, Wednesday, October 31, 2018) – The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), in collaboration with Harris Poll, will be releasing the second annual National Cancer Opinion Survey, which tracks the U.S. public’s views on...