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News from the CDC: Scaling up sustainable intervention delivery-lessons learned from the CDC arthritis program.

Expanding behavior change programs into widespread use with meaningful population impact is a public health challenge. This report described the CDC Arthritis Program's strategic approach to fostering widespread availability and sustainability of community-based self-management education and physical activity interventions, and reviews common errors observed in efforts to disseminate and implem...

Report from the CDC Maternity Care Practices That Support Breastfeeding: CDC Efforts to Encourage Quality Improvement

Breastfeeding has important consequences for women’s health, including lower risk of breast and ovarian cancers as well as type 2 diabetes. Although most pregnant women want to breastfeed, a majority encounter difficulties and are not able to breastfeed as long as they want. Routine maternity care practices can pose significant barriers to successful breastfeeding. To address these practices, C...

News from the Field

B O S T O N UNIVERSITY LIB R AR Y has been given a valuable collection of Lincoln letters, documents a n d related materials, number ing eighty-six items. Of special interest is an order to Genera l Winf ie ld Scott to susp e n d the writ of habeas corpus. T h e donor is the H o n o r a b l e Edward C. Stone, a member of the Massachusetts Senate a n d chairm a n of the Board of Trus tees of the...

News from the Archives

Why do so many scientific research articles languish in obscurity? There is no single answer. No doubt many have earned their ignominy by their flawed scholarship, poor exposition, or arcane subject matter, but this is not always the case. A search of the old literature often uncovers many seemingly worthy contributions that have inexplicably fallen into oblivion. Probably the most common reaso...

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