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Safe Injection Practices Video Wins Awards
Safe Injection Practices Video Wins Awards
By Terri Heyns | Posted on May 6, 2013

"Safe Injection Practices – How to Do it Right," a video of our One & Only Campaign, recently won two awards – a Gold AVA Digital Award and the grand prize for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 2013 Film Festival.

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Unsafe Injections Put Patients at Risk of Serious Illness
Unsafe Injections Put Patients at Risk of Serious Illness
By Tom McKnight | Posted on May 31, 2012

I’ve seen first-hand the devastation caused when single-use items and medications are reused on multiple patients. My wife, Evelyn, was one of 99 Nebraskans infected with hepatitis C in 2000 while receiving treatment for cancer.

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Five Questions for Our Boss, the CDC Foundation's Charlie Stokes
Five Questions for Our Boss, the CDC Foundation's Charlie Stokes

“The CDC is protecting Americans and the world from health and safety threats. In so doing, it’s protecting our economy. Businesses with huge global workforces care about that,” according to CDC Foundation President and CEO Charlie Stokes, who was featured in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution’s 5 Questions for the Boss column over the weekend.

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Technology Is Key to CDC's Public Health Defense of Our Country
Technology Is Key to CDC's Public Health Defense of Our Country

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a long history of using technology and data to solve public health mysteries surrounding both chronic and contagious diseases. Just as diseases advance, however, so do the ways that technology and data can address them. Looking forward, it is vital to America’s health and national security for our nation to continue making investments in technology at CDC. That is the core message I take from a new op-ed in The Hill’s Congress blog today.

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GATS Highlights Significant Tobacco Use Decline in Turkey
GATS Highlights Significant Tobacco Use Decline in Turkey

The Government of Turkey today released the country’s latest results from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), and the numbers tell the story of Turkey’s success to reduce smoking prevalence in the country. In 2012, 1.2 million fewer adults smoked cigarettes when compared to 2008. On a percentage basis, this figure translates to 27.1 percent of Turkish adults smoking in 2012 versus 31.2 percent in 2008.

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