Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frenzy over the Y2K computer problem continues, officials at the School of Public Health (SPH) are preparing the nation for a different sort of danger this holiday season--drunk driving...
...Winsten, director of the Center for Health Communication at SPH, said drunk driving this month may be more of a problem this holiday season because of increased celebration surrounding the new millennium...
...Center for Health Communication is devoted to using the media to influence positively public behavior and has successfully worked with Hollywood since the 1980s to prevent drunk driving, according to Winsten...
...TIME health writer Christine Gorman says the proposal also could help instill a cultural change in the medical industry by making doctors feel it's OK to admit they make mistakes. "Medicine in the U.S. could be safer than it is," says Gorman, "because it doesn't take into account the fact that errors are going to occur, as inevitably they will. If you take that into account, you can do something about it." Doing something about it, according to the NAS, means creating some sort of federal regulatory agency, a kind of FAA for the practice of medicine...
...claim they were injured by the chemical giant's negligence. "This is one of the great cases of product liability in American legal history," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The whole case is very controversial; there are so many sympathetic plaintiffs saying they've suffered a variety of health problems." There are also conflicting reports surfacing from the scientific community - the most recent of which, in June's Journal of the National Academy of Sciences, found no evidence that silicone causes health problems...