Monday, October 10th, 2011
Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined a racially integrated, low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland and found that, with the exception of smoking, nationally ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
Curbing smoking worldwide through aggressive tobacco control could prevent millions of deaths from tuberculosis (TB), according to new research published in the BMJ that says smoking is undermining the progress towards the millenium goals for reducing TB deaths. Physician Dr Sanjay Basu, from the Department of Medicine at ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
The government tobacco maker sponsors schools, earning goodwill
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Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Smoking rates in the USA range from 28.4% for adults with no high school education, 28.6% among individuals with no health insurance, to 9.1% for employees with at least a bachelor's degree, according to a report "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Sept. 30, 2011" issued by the CDC (Centers for ...
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Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
People who give up smoking generally experience a significant improvement in memory, apart from enjoying substantial overall health benefits, researchers from Northumbria University, England reported in Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The authors explained that when the majority of smokers quit, their pre-smoking everyday memory can eventually be restored fully. Dr ...
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