Plan Bee began in 2009 after Jersey bees were struck down with the American Foulbrood disease which caused the loss of one third of the island's bee population.
Andrea Levario, the Executive Director of the American Celiac Disease Alliance (ACDA) spoke to Jules Dowler Shepard, one of the leaders of the 1 in 133 movement, in a web interview on August 4th.
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According to the latest data from the Center for Disease Control and the American Cancer Society, more than ten million Americans are living with some form of cancer.
Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer.
American health officials report that the disease they are seeing appears to be milder than that spreading through Asia, which suggests that the virulence of the disease differs among victims.
Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer (see p. 57 for global figures).
According to the AAP, 115 American children died of influenza-related disease in the 12 months ending in August.
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"If people come in and say my chest hurts, that gets attention, but if they say my leg hurts when I walk a couple of blocks, most doctors don't think that is a big deal, " says William Hiatt, professor of cardiovascular research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and chairman of the American Heart Association's Peripheral Vascular Disease Council.
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Here are some guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Pennsylvania Medical Society.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more American women are drinking more heavily than ever before: one in eight women binge drink -- defined as six drinks or more in one sitting -- about three times a month.
For example, in 1995, the American College of Sports Medicine and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly issued national guidelines called Physical Activity and Public Health, which were updated in 2007.
Sometimes they are deliberately used in that way: for example, Mexico used to insist that imported American pigs be vaccinated against hog cholera, a disease that disappeared from the United States in the 1970s.
The benefits go far beyond the Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a disease that is diagnosed in only 600 American boys a year, to diseases like cancer and AIDS. Such drugs could even have a big effect on the muscle weakening that comes with aging.
In reality, heart disease is the No. 1 killer of American women, striking one in three at age 65 or older.
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American bullfrogs carry the fungus but do not develop the disease.
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American medical schools taught virtually nothing about alcoholism as a disease.
Japan is especially reluctant to do so, as was illustrated by a recent spat over American beef, in which fears of mad-cow disease strengthened the hands of protectionists.
The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
The Obama Administration is committed to continuing American leadership in both the domestic and global fight against this disease.
And the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Centers for Disease Control will be offering regular updates to the American people.
It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.
It will launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American, including me, by seeking a cure for cancer in our time.
These programs were funded by large groups such as the Pan American Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
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The American Medical Association classified alcoholism (and drug addiction) as a disease in 1956.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 32, 000 men died of the disease in 2010.
One in three American children is obese or overweight according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, a powerful anti-oxidant which, according to the American Dietic Association, reduces the risk of prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Starbucks will test growing methods for eradicating a fungal disease known as coffee rust, which is shrinking Central American coffee harvests 25 percent on average this year, sending shock waves throughout the industry.
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