Oregon’s bars, bingo halls and bowling alleys have clearer air today, three days after the new Smokefree Workplace Law took effect. There is a smoke-free, ashtray-free zone around business doors — or at least there will be, once owners realize that the new law has provisions that apply to them as well.
Will the state be a healthier place as a result? Will public-health costs related to smoking decline? Officials won’t know for years.
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Women’s Symposium teaches health, values
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa (February 6, 2009)
— Female Marines and sailors from across the island joined together for a symposium on women’s health and wellness at the base theater here, Jan. 29.
Capt. Sally A. Falco, the commanding general’s aide de camp for Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, helped organize the symposium because she saw a need for the area’s female service members to get more information Read the rest of this entry »
An investigation is under way into how a quantity of drugs went missing at a hospital.
The incident – thought to involve morphine – occurred at Borders General Hospital near Melrose.
Police have been informed of the loss of the drugs, but NHS Borders believes the medication has been “misplaced” rather than stolen.
It is the second incident in recent times when opiate drugs have gone missing at the hospital.
It is understood auditors raised Read the rest of this entry »
‘ youngest son, Jayden James, is expected to be released from the hospital on Tuesday, according to a statement posted on the
Monday afternoon (November 10). Jayden was
for an unspecified reaction.
“Jayden James Federline was admitted to the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center on Sunday, November 9th,” the statement reads. “Doctors concluded he had a reaction to something he ingested. He is expected to be discharged tomorrow.”
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with another attack against the country’s political institutions. Early on Sunday, Nov. 23, renegade soldiers, their faces hooded, sprayed the Bissau residence of President Joao Bernardo “Nino” Vieira with machine-gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire. The president survived unhurt this latest apparent attempt to topple him.
But The attack underlined the fragility of the small, cashew nut-exporting West African nation, one of Read the rest of this entry »
What a depressing week for Miami in the listacles department. Not only are we
, and have
, turns out we don’t get much sleep either.
, and Miami came in at 96 with an overall grade of D-. The rankings took into account the percentage of citizens who get less than 7 hours of sleep a night, the number who have insomnia, how many people pop sleeping pills, and the prevelance of sleep-disorder denters per capita.
The magazine also reports a correlation Read the rest of this entry »
Indianapolis – Nutrition disclosure signs could become the rule at chain restaurants around Indiana.
A state health committee approved a bill requiring nutrition facts on signs, menus or fliers at chain restaurants. Some restaurants, including Subway downtown, already have such signs posted.
“Especially when I’m on a diet, I do read them,” said another consumer. “I try to carefully pick and choose what I’m going to put in my mouth. You are what Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — The Senate defeated an effort Tuesday by Republicans to make it harder for states to extend government-sponsored health insurance to children of legal immigrants.
By voice vote, senators rejected an amendment that would have required states to extend health coverage to the vast majority of other low-income children first before covering legal immigrants.
The vote came amid debate on legislation to boost spending on the State Read the rest of this entry »
(Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain agree Americans spend too much on drugs and doctors and largely agree on what changes to make, but they have competing proposals to carry them out. Here is a summary of their positions:
McCain would end tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance and provide a refundable tax credit of $2,500 per person, or $5,000 for families. He would promote competition Read the rest of this entry »
Nato has agreed its troops will be allowed to attack opium factories for the first time in Afghanistan.
Alliance spokesman James Appathurai said troops will act with Afghan forces “against facilities and facilitators” using drugs to finance the Taleban.
Afghan forces have taken the lead in the fight against the drugs industry until now. The US wants more aggressive tactics against the opium trade.
Nato defence ministers reached agreement at Read the rest of this entry »