From HHS News and Events: The progress made in the House Budget Committee is good news for health reform and the millions of Americans who are victims of the worst abuses of the insurance companies. Read more from this post....
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Older people who have never smoked benefit most from smoking bans, a study suggests. A study in New Zealand showed that, three years after a smoking ban on all workplaces was introduced, hospital admissions for...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Educational leaders from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) believe teaching the subject of unhealthy substance use must be incorporated into internal medicine residency training and can be done within existing teaching venues. The findings,...
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Young Britons see significantly more on-screen smoking in movies than their US peers, finds research published ahead of print in the journal Tobacco Control. Read more from this post....
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: Two studies published on bmj.com today show that obesity and alcohol act together to increase the risk of liver disease in both men and women. Read more from this post....
From EurekAlert! - Breaking News: A new American Cancer Society study finds progress in reducing cancer death rates is evident whether measured against baseline rates in 1970 or in 1990. The study appears in the open access journal PLoS ONE,...
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