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Watch out for scholarship scams
Graduation season means optimismt about a bright future ahead. Unfortunately, scam artist know how stressful paying for college can be and they’ve tailored a fraud to separate eager students and their families from their money – scholarship scams.
Script Your Future celebrating first year of helping patients ‘Take the Pledge’
This month marks the first anniversary of Script Your Future, the national multi-media health care campaign launched by NCL in 2011 to address the need for tools and resources to support medication adherence across the country and to open dialogue between health care professionals and patients about the health consequences of non-adherence.
Read more: Script Your Future celebrating first year of helping patients ‘Take the Pledge’
Calling FDA attention to wacky grocery nutritional labeling system
In May, NCL filed a formal complaint with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about a nutritional scoring system - used in 1,600 stores nationwide - that gives snack chips, soft drinks, and desserts scores as high as or higher than some canned fruits and vegetables.
Read more: Calling FDA attention to wacky grocery nutritional labeling system
THIS WEEK'S POLL
How many Americans contract foodborne illness every year?