Montana affiliate targets impaired driving awareness

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The project 'Our Children Speak: Hear Them' aimed to give American Indian youth living in Montana community of Browning, the chance to artistically express their feelings about drinking and driving. A poster that won in the contest was contracted with the graphic artist to convert it into media-friendly format by the Montana Public Health Association to reach the Afro-American-feet community and young people living around Browning.

Public affairs, Services information, HEALTH SERVICES, Social aspects, Services, Health care industry, Drunk driving, Driving while intoxicated

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Witnesses say infected cow not a 'downer': questions loom over first U.S. mad cow disease case

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The evidences have shown that eating infected beef neutral tissues by humansE results in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is a degenerative neurologic disease. Legislators are looking for better ways to protect the food supply after the nation's first mad cow disease that caused foreign markets to suspend U.S. beefs imports.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Meat Products, Legal/Government Regulation, Laws, regulations and rules, Causes of, Risk factors, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Beef industry

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Programs, communities taking action: American Indian working to stem tide of diabetes cases

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Alaska Natives are facing the highest increasing rate of 44 percent in diabetes diagnoses between 1997 and 2002. Youth have taken part in the event, and the children in the summercise program in western Alaska, put emphasizes on nutrition and fitness as a way to prevent diabetes.

Alaska, Health aspects, Development and progression, Surveys, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Native Americans

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