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Dr. Mark Ebell, U.S. Preventive Task Force member, was interviewed by the BBC Radio 4 program "Inside Health." The interview addresses the Task Force's recent draft guidelines regarding the use of breast cancer-reducing drugs such as tamoxifen and raloxifene.
Listen to the interview here.
Doctors should talk about breast cancer-reducing drugs with women and offer tamoxifen or raloxifene to those that have a high risk of cancer and aren't likely to suffer side effects, a government-backed panel said on Monday.
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The water and sediments in Athens’ little Trail Creek no longer seems fatal to life nearly three years after a massive chemical fire at the J&J Chemical Co. caused a spill that killed everything in the creek and flushed a toxic tide of acid-blue pollution into the Oconee River, according to a University of Georgia scientist.
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24th Annual Student Mentoring Conference in Gerontology and Geriatrics
Hosted by Hotel Indigo in Downtown Athens, GAMarch 29th-30th
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Dr. Virginia A. Moyer, chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and a leading national voice against prostate cancer over-screening, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual conference of the University of Georgia’s Institute for Evidence-Based Health Professions Education April 5. The keynote is free and open to the public.read more
State public health commissioner Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald says 84 percent of one million Georgia children flunked their school fitness test last year. Fitzgerald spoke Thursday at a University of Georgia conference in Athens. Fitzgerald identified childhood obesity as the state's number one public health challenge.
Video from The Georgia Public Policy Foundation
Engaging communities and promoting partnerships to improve health care dominated discussions Thursday during the inaugural State of Public Health Conference at the University of Georgia.
Organizers of the conference held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education hoped to spark discussion and craft a plan to improve the health and well-being of future Georgians.
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Too many of the state’s school children are physically unfit, said Georgia Commissioner of Public Health Brenda Fitzgerald.
Only about 16 percent of children tested last year could pass all five parts of a test designed to measure physical fitness, and 20 percent didn’t pass any of the five measures, said Fitzgerald, one of the keynote speakers on Thursday at the University of Georgia College of Public Health’s inaugural State of Public Health Conference.
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