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1999 News Releases

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December
12/14/99	Reducing Welfare Payments Has No Impact on Vaccination Rates For Young Children in Maryland
12/13/99	Needlestick Injuries to Healthcare Workers Significantly Reduced
12/07/99	Zinc Reduces Pneumonia by 41 percent and Diarrhea by Up to 25 percent
12/06/99	U.S. Vital Statistics Show Death Rates Down, Birth Rates Up
12/01/99	Managed Mental Health Care Plans Likely to Impose Arbitrary Benefit Limits

November
11/24/99	For-Profit Dialysis Facilities Have Higher Mortality Rates and Lower Transplant Referral Rates Than Not-For-Profit Facilities
11/15/99	Scientists Discover How Viral Infections Trigger Asthma Attacks
11/01/99	Urine Testing Proves an Accurate Measure in HIV Screening

October
10/18/99	Prevention Science Comes of Age
10/08/99	Susan Baker Honored With American Public Health Association's Award for Excellence
10/05/99	Urgent Need for Smoking Prevention Program in China
10/04/99	Minorities' Primary Health Care Substandard Compared To Whites'

September
09/29/99	Treating Sexually Transmitted Diseases Does Not Reduce HIV Incidence in Mature HIV Epidemics
09/29/99	Hyperventilation of Cold Air Produces Asthma-Like Symptoms in Dogs
09/22/99	Frequent Injection Drug Use May Increase Risk
09/09/99	House Flies Can Transmit Cryptosporidium
09/09/99	Public Health Project to Address Problems of Animal Production

August
08/31/99	Educated Moms Better at Predicting Baby's Sex
08/31/99	Traffic Exhaust Poisons Home Air
08/25/99	Self Collection of HPV Samples Promotes Early Screening for Cervical Cancer
08/16/99	Drinking Polluted Water May Increase Risk of Esophageal Cancer
08/16/99	Ski and Snowboard Injury Study on the Internet

July
07/22/99	Death Rates Rise for North Korean Migrants
07/21/99	Study Shows Risk of Alzheimer's Disease Drops in the Oldest Old
07/15/99	Vitamin A Cuts Children's Malaria Risk by Nearly a Third
07/14/99	Lactose-Free Soy-Based Baby Formula Recommended for Treatment
07/07/99	High Rates of Sexual Transmission of HIV Found in Married Couples

June
06/30/99	Work Environment Affects Rate of Back Injuries
06/25/99	Live Drama May Be More Effective Than TV or Radio in Teaching About AIDS
06/17/99	Researchers Block Sexual Stage of Malaria Parasite
06/16/99	Study Analyzes Relationship Between Disease Burden and NIH Funding

May
05/28/99	Comprehensive Community Care for Mentally Ill Cuts Hospital Days
05/25/99	Gates Foundations Give Johns Hopkins $20 Million
05/25/99	Students Living on Campus Get Meningitis More Often
05/25/99	Alcohol Important in Injury Mortality

April
04/27/99	Pollutants Found in House Dust Increase Pesticide's Toxicity
04/10/99	Having A Primary Care Physician Can Offset Some Adverse Health Effects of Poverty
04/10/99	Regardless of Their Risk of Colon Cancer, Most Would Undergo Genetic Screening
04/08/99	Study Defines Scope of Vaccine-Preventable Infections in Asia

March
03/24/99	Cheap, Convenient DNA Vaccine May Short-Circuit Malaria Parasite
03/17/99	Fifteenth Anniversary of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

February
02/26/99	Dietary Vitamin A Supplements Improve Maternal Survival in South Asia
02/16/99	Researchers Prove Chemoprevention Can Work
02/11/99	Controlling Sexually Transmitted Diseases May Not Lower HIV Infection Rate
02/01/99	Ethnic Disparities Between Blacks and Whites Receiving Cardiac Procedures Eliminated

January
01/26/99	Researchers Study Methods To Improve Cervical Cancer Screening

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