Updates matching "Maryland"

On April 10, 2012 Governor O'Malley signed the Kathleen Mathais Oral Chemotherapy Parity bill into law. Thousands of Marylanders will now be able to afford their life-saving treatments. Thank you to our bill sponsors Senator Catherine Pugh and Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam and special thanks to Senator James Mathias for their

Tobacco Tax Media Event W hat a beautiful day on March 7! Not only was the weather gorgeous but we had a fantastic Tobacco Tax Media Event in front of the State House along with our health advocates. The goal of the media event was to continue building

On Sunday, January 8, the Baltimore Sun ran this terrific editorial endorsing a life-saving proposal to increase the state's tax on cigars and smokeless tobacco. This tax increase will reduce the use of these deadly products by youth and raise critically needed money for to the state's tobacco control

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On June 24, community health leaders from around the nation for a White House Briefing on the Health Care Exchanges. Bonita Pennino, Government Relations Director for Maryland at the American Cancer Society attended this Briefing due to the American Cancer Society's partnership with Maryland Citizen's Health Initiative and sat in

This year, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is celebrating its 10th year of supporting laws and policies at the federal, state and local levels that help people fight cancer. As part of this celebration ACS CAN is launching Celebrate with Action Events in every congressional district

The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network recognized Maryland's Health Benefits Exchange as one of the model exchanges in our country to date. On May 26, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown announced Governor O'Malley's appointments to the Health Benefit Exchange Board. The appointees will be Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of

The 2011 Maryland General Assembly ended on April 12 and the two big items to celebrate are: 1) The Smoking Exemption bill (HB 605) died in committee. This is a huge victory for tobacco control in our state. Allowing smoking exemptions would have weaken our strong statewide smoke-free indoor air

In honor of Volunteer Appreciation Week this year, we would like to take this moment to recognize and celebrate the efforts of all of our advocacy volunteers who make a positive difference in the fight against cancer. We could never accomplish alone what we