Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today the creation of eight Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities, designed to support cutting-edge research to understand and reduce differences in health outcomes, access and care.  Four institutes or offices within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - the National Institute of Environmental Health […]

Death rates from the four most common cancers - lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal - continued to decline in the late 1990s according to new data from the “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2000.” For all cancers combined, the death rate began to stabilize in the late 1990s, showing neither […]