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CNN Poll Finds Americans' Opinons Are Divided Regarding The President's Health Reform Push
Americans appear split over the president"s push for health care reform, a new CNN poll has found. "Fifty percent of those questioned in CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning say they support the president"s plans, with 45 percent opposed. The results indicate a generational divide. ""Obama"s plan is most popular among younger Americans and least popular among senior citizens," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "A majority of Americans over the age of 50 oppose Obama"s plan; a majority of those under 50 support it.""
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Uganda To Distribute ITNs To All Citizens
The Ugandan ministry of health said that everyone in the country will receive free insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) to prevent malaria beginning in September, James Kakooza, the state minister for primary health care, said, New Vision/allAfrica.com reports. Kakooza said children and mothers will be the priority, but that the goal is to make the 17.4 million imported ITNs available to everyone. The ITNs will supplement 6 million ITNs that were distributed over the last three years, Richard Ndyomugyenyi, the malaria control program officer, said.
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American Chemical Society Praises Nomination Of Collins As National Institutes Of Health Director

The President of the American Chemical Society, Thomas H. Lane, Ph.D., issued the following statement on President Obama"s nomination of Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., to be Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH): "At no other time in recent memory has there been such a sense of opportunity - and expectation - in the power of science to deliver solutions to the grand challenges facing our nation, and indeed, all of humanity. As the nation"s largest of basic research funding, NIH will be looked to lead and deliver. "Dr. Collins, a chemist, has made tremendous contributions to the advancement of science, most notably in the sequencing of the human genome which holds the promise of decoding the genetic causes of cancer and other major human illnesses. The work and accomplishments of Dr. Collins certainly bring to life the ACS vision of "Improving people"s lives through the transforming power of chemistry." "As the world"s largest scientific society, the ACS strongly supports the Collins nomination. NIH will be well-served to have a scientist of such caliber play a key leadership role in guiding the agency in the years ahead. ACS wishes Dr. Collins a speedy and successful Senate confirmation and many years of accomplished success leading NIH." The American Chemical Society


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