"Health & Medical News"

Washington — President Bush used his last State of the Union speech to restate his existing health care proposals, including tax deductions for health insurance spending, health insurance pools for businesses, medical liability reform and wider use of health information technology. Bush also challenged Congress to address the long-term solvency of entitlement programs, such as Medicare.

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Washington — Although the HIV/AIDS epidemic is decades old and preventive measures have been widely promoted, another 40,000 people become infected each year. And, despite considerable progress in reducing the disease’s impact among populations hardest hit initially — gay men and intravenous drug users — other populations, especially racial and ethnic minorities, continue to bear a disproportionate burden, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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NASCAR driver Aaron Fike reached an agreement with a Warren County (Ohio) judge to deliver anti-drug messages to youths in exchange for avoiding jail time in his arrest for heroin possession last summer, Associated Press Sports reported Nov. 27.

NASCAR driver Aaron Fike and his fiancee Cassandra Davidson was arrested in an amusement park parking lot in Cincinnati. After four months of rehabilitation, Fike presented a proposal to the judge to avoid jail time by going to schools and racetracks to deliver an anti-drug message.

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A bracelet designed to send an anti-drug message is being pulled from the market for unintentionally doing the opposite, the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye reported Oct. 26.

The novelty bracelets, intended to be distributed during national Red Ribbon Week, are embossed with the slogan “I’ve Got BETTER things to DO than DRUGS.” But some parents said that they got a different message when reading only the capitalized words: BETTER DO DRUGS.

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