Now for updates on local H1N1 clinics and state breast-cancer screenings
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Over at the L.A. Now blog, Molly Hennessy-Fiske reports on the final H1N1 clinics in Los Angeles County:
The first of the final dozen county-sponsored H1N1 flu vaccination clinics opened this morning in Santa Clarita with faster-moving lines as Los Angeles County health officials applied many of the lessons learned from previous clinics, which had been criticized as chaotic and inefficient.
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And Rong-Gong Lin II writes about a breast-cancer screening program for poor women. This situation isn’t as positive...
A cigarette tax-funded program that pays for breast cancer screenings for low-income women will stop accepting new patients Jan. 1, public health officials said this week. Officials said the decision came as a result of “unprecedented fiscal challenges” to the program which they hope to reopen by summertime.
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-- Tami Dennis