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—MARK HORTON, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), introducing the state's new anti-smoking campaign. Quit-smoking messages in California have been successful, according to CDPH: while 20.6% of American adults report smoking cigarettes, the rate in California is 13.1%. [via Los Angeles Sentinel]
Can vaccines cause the disease they’re supposed to prevent? Do they lead to autism? Every leading medical organization says no — and supports immunization — yet parents are growing increasingly skeptical
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Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
