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Mon, 05/24/2021 - 10:30am WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has received a total of $1,901,817 to support cancer prevention programs across the state, according to a news release. The leading cause of death in Maine is cancer, and Maine has significantly higher cancer death rates than the rest of the U.S. The Maine CDC Cancer Prevention and Control Programs help to reduce cancer mortality and increase cancer screening rates. Through coordinated an...

Weed scientiest discusses data from recent weed management studies in auxin technologies. When it comes to weed control, dicamba is good; 2,4-D is good. But they arent standalone systems, stressed Weed Scientist Pete Dotray, Texas Tech University and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Lubbock.   "There is no one recipe," said Dotray as he addressed a virtual audience during the recent Red River Crops Conference. "It depends on the primary weed that needs to be controlled, soil...

ST. LOUIS, MN | January 27, 2021 Even amid the pandemic, tobacco use remains a serious public health threat. In addition to tobacco-related death and disease, smoking also increases the risk of the most severe impacts of COVID-19, making ending tobacco use more important than ever. This year’s “State of Tobacco Control” report from the American Lung Association grades federal and state efforts to reduce tobacco use and calls for meaningful policies that will prevent and red...

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