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...veterans and their families, the panel concluded that it is feasible, using a wide range of military records, to determine more precisely who came in contact with the defoliant and how great their increased risk of disease is. That has been a sore point since the release of the CDC study that rejected as incomplete the military records indicating which troops were most exposed to the chemical. Relying on that study, government officials have delayed paying most claims. A lawsuit by the American Legion aimed at forcing the government to undertake the epidemiological study was summarily dismissed two weeks...
...that couch potatoes are proliferating -- their percentage has been constant for the past two decades. It's that the number of people taking up vigorous activity seems to have crested in the mid-'80s, according to, among other surveys, the CDC's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. No wonder there is revolt in the air. "The god Narcissus ruled in the '80s," says a middle-aged publicist in Los Angeles, a man who is sensitive about his 15-lb. , gain and would prefer to keep his name to himself. "He was the least powerful and most uninteresting...
...while some Americans seem to be gaining wisdom on the health front, there are troubling signs that others may be forgetting it. For one, the antismoking campaign is in a rut. The CDC reported that in 1991, the latest year for which numbers are available, 25.7% of the population smoked, about the same as in 1990; thus a 24-year annual decline in cigarette use seems to have leveled...
Then there is the economic issue. In a 1985 study, the CDC determined that the medical costs of treating chicken pox were not great enough to warrant spending the money on a national immunization program. However, when the indirect costs of missed work and school time are factored in, advocates say, the U.S. could save five times as much as it would spend on the vaccine...
...chicken pox can weaken the body so that it is susceptible to more hazardous bacterial infections. By warding off chicken pox, the vaccine could prevent secondary complications. In addition, 10 years' worth of data in the U.S. suggest that the vaccine could reduce the incidence of shingles. If the CDC decides that these advantages outweigh the possible risks, getting itchy scabs all over the body may no longer be a rite of childhood...