by Ruojing Liu | Aug 8, 2016 | Health
Nine items offered at major chain restaurants across the United States may look tasty, but they are high in calories, saturated fat and sodium, a food advocacy group warns. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit based in Washington focusing on...
by Ruojing Liu | Aug 3, 2016 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The National Governors Association rolled out a “tool kit” Wednesday to help governors navigate the process of making dramatic changes in their Medicaid programs to achieve federal approval of the plans. To accomplish broad changes, states must...
by Ruojing Liu | Jul 28, 2016 | Health
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated Albany’s Wadsworth Laboratory as one of seven regional labs to tackle the growing threat of antibiotic resistance. The state Health Department’s Wadsworth Center Bacteriology Laboratory...
by Ruojing Liu | Jul 19, 2016 | National Security
WASHINGTON – Preventable deaths of soldiers on the battlefield and also of civilians in the cities and streets of the U.S. could be reduced under a proposed House bill offering grants for civilian trauma centers to hire military doctors and staff. In a recent report,...
by Ruojing Liu | Jun 28, 2016 | Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up efforts to get hospitals and doctors to create better systems to reduce antibiotic resistance caused by overprescribing, a top CDC researcher said Tuesday. A recent study showed that about 30 percent of...
