Sacramento - The CMA Foundation’s AWARE Project convened key stakeholders Monday to finalize a statewide plan of action to strengthen and effectively coordinate efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat CA-MRSA in California. The plan will be sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in March.

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Sacramento - The California Medical Association (CMA) Foundation held a news conference today to call attention to inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by physicians and use by patients that threatens the effectiveness of our most potent defense against serious bacteria and illness—antibiotics, and to discuss its expansion into more ethnic communities in California with more outreach and production of materials in multiple languages.

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