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  • September 2008

    • Surgeon General Targets Killer Blood Clots

      Associated Press  |  Sep 15, 08 5:08 PM CDT

      Surgeon General Targets Killer Blood Clots

      (Newser) - An easily treatable complication related to blood clots kills 100,000 Americans every year, but a new federal awareness campaign aims to change that, the AP reports. Although deep vein thrombosis affects up to 600,000 people a year, "I don't think most people understand that this is a serious medical problem or what can be done to prevent it," the acting surgeon general said at the announcement of a "call to action." More »

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      obesity  • public health  • Surgeon General  • deep vein thrombosis

  • June 2008
  • July 2007

    • Bush Buddy Squelched Health Report

      Washington Post  |  Jul 29, 07 1:47 PM CDT

      Bush Buddy Squelched Health Report

      (Newser) - A Bush appointee spiked a 2006 surgeon general's report on global health issues for not promoting the administration's policy efforts, WaPo reports. Richard Steiger, an HHS official and longtime Bush family friend, suppressed a report urging Americans to take on global health problems, and discussed connections between poverty and illness. More »

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      health  • Bush administration  • poverty  • illness  • Surgeon General  • global health

    • 'I'm Not Anti- Gay,' Says Would-Be Surgeon General

      Washington Post  |  Jul 13, 07 4:50 AM CDT

      'I'm Not Anti- Gay,' Says Would-Be Surgeon General

      (Newser) - Despite arguing in a paper that homosexual sex is unnatural and a health risk, President Bush's nominee for surgeon general testified yesterday before a senate committee that he is not anti-gay. Kentucky cardiologist James W. Holsinger Jr. admitted his 1991 paper for the United Methodist Church was not scientific and that much of the thinking is outdated.  More »

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      gay rights  • Surgeon General  • Richard Carmona

    • Ex-Surgeon General Alleges Censorship

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 10, 07 7:54 PM CDT

      Ex-Surgeon General Alleges Censorship

      (Newser) - The Bush administration "did not want to hear the science" on subjects such as stem-cell research and abstinence-only sex ed, the ex-surgeon general says, and he was muzzled and marginalized when he tried "to be the doctor of the nation—not the doctor of a political party." Richard Carmona's 4-year term expired last year and wasn't renewed. More »

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      George W. Bush  • public health  • stem cell research  • sex education  • Surgeon General  • Richard Carmona

  • June 2007

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