Newswire: HIV/AIDS Take Heavy Toll on Black Youth

Newswire: HIV/AIDS take heavy toll on Black youth

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Black and Latina youth represent only 35 percent of all U.S. teenagers, they accounted for 84.4 percent of all newly HIV-infected teenagers in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Blacks ages …
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Heroin charge nets 2- to 4-year sentence

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Murphy was on probation in connection with a 2010 arrest for possession of heroin. In July after she was caught with meth when … Moynihan called Murphy "a good kid" but a "play girl" with "a bad addiction." "She slipped big using anything she could …
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Tdap vaccine found safe for older adults

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… been causing more infant deaths. So in 2010, immunization recommendations were changed to advise that adults 65 years old and older should receive the tetanus-diphtheria-acellular-pertussis vaccine instead of the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine. But the …
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