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'Crip Camp' subjects have become disability rights activists

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'Crip Camp' subjects have become disability rights activists

"Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution" directors Jim Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham look back on Camp Jenet for campers with disabilities and the campers who became involved with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Loews Corp. spins off tobacco firm

The Loews Corp. has spun off its profitable Lorillard, exposing the Greensboro, N.C., tobacco company to a takeover, analysts said.

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'Swish-and-spit' test for some cancers

A morning gargle -- or swish and spit test -- could someday be used to spot head and neck cancers, U.S. scientists said.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Survey: parents unaware of teen drugs

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at New York's Columbia University says when it comes to teens' drugs and drinking, many parents are dumb.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Study: Regulate alcohol marketing

The U.S. alcohol industry snares too many underage drinkers and its marketing practices should be federally regulated, a Columbia University study concludes.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Medicare: A political battle, then and now

To understand the Medicare debate you need to look at the senior health insurance system as it came into being on July 30, 1965. Then, as now, it was a huge government entitlement forged through arduous compromise and old-fashioned political maneuvering.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Teen risk factors for substance abuse

More than half of teens are at risk for substance abuse if they have one of three risk factors: stress, boredom or too much money.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Teens drink 20 percent of U.S. alcohol

Teens and adults who drink heavily account for more than half of all alcohol consumption in the United States, with teens alone accounting for nearly 20 percent, even though they're not legally allowed to drink, a study released Tuesday said.

Business News // 2 decades ago

Recent Research Suggests...

In late February, Carter-era Health Secretary Joseph Califano caused a stir when his National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), which is affiliated with Columbia University, claimed that underage drinkers account for 25 percent of all alcoho

Business News // 2 decades ago

Recent research suggests...

This column examines the facts behind recent statistical studies that have made the news but been misinterpreted, failed to make the news for some reason or are just plain weird.

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Originally the American Medical Association was for national health insurance and labor was against it
Medicare: A political battle, then and now Sep 08, 2003

Baby boomer parents may be surprised that hefty amounts of spending money can mean trouble. People tend to think of substance-abusing kids as likely to be in poor, urban America
Teen risk factors for substance abuse Aug 20, 2003

The only solution now is for federal regulation, just as we have federal regulation prohibiting tobacco ads on television
Think tanks wrap-up Dec 21, 2001

Joseph A. Califano, Jr.

Joseph Anthony Califano, Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is as of 2009 the Chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. He has held many posts in the United States Government including United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1977 until 1979. He is now one of only two living former secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare (the other is his predecessor, Forest David Mathews).

Califano graduated from College of the Holy Cross in 1952 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1955.

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