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Mexico requires warning labels on some processed foods

by Rodrigo Cervantes
Dec 4, 2020
The "junk food" labeling warns that some foods are high in sodium, or have excessive sugars.
Esteban Pérez works in the family business: a store in Mexico City that his grandfather started decades ago. He shows a soda can with the new warning labeling in Mexico.
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How workplaces could help distribute the vaccine

by Kristin Schwab
Dec 2, 2020
Employer-sponsored programs make vaccinations convenient and help to normalize the idea of getting one.
A sign reflects the widespread interest in being protected from the coronavirus. Workplace vaccinations could bring protection to more people.
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Fauci: U.S. could reach 100,000 new cases a day

by Associated Press
Jun 30, 2020
The nation’s leading infectious disease expert made the remark at a Senate hearing on reopening schools and workplaces.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases testifies before a Senate committee in Washington, DC, on June 30, 2020.
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States are trying to build armies of coronavirus contact tracers

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 23, 2020
But public health departments have been chronically underfunded.
Contact tracers try to find everyone a person who tested positive for COVID-19 has come into contact with.
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FCC moves to make suicide hotline easier to call

by Kimberly Adams
Dec 16, 2019
9-8-8 could soon get people in touch with suicide prevention resources.
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Amid concerns over health, dry cleaners look to "wet" alternative

by Eilís O'Neill
Jun 7, 2019
In Seattle, grants have been offered to dry cleaning companies who will trade a potentially dangerous chemical for safer alternatives.
Hyen Sook Kang and Tae Park have owned Sun Dry Cleaners since 1985.
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These moms south of Seattle are tackling asthma, starting in preschools

by Eilís O'Neill
Feb 20, 2019
One in 12 kids in the US has asthma.
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Why was there a CDC climate change summit anyway?

by Jed Kim
Jan 24, 2017
The Center for Disease Control canceled an upcoming environmental health conference and some say it has to do with the changing political landscape.
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How Mexico is fighting obesity

by Stan Alcorn
May 18, 2015
The obesity rate in Mexican children has reportedly tripled in the past decade.
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Big tobacco says your e-cigarette may kill you

by Tim Fitzsimons
Mar 24, 2015
What’s driving this public health message?
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