E-cigarettes Do Not Help Quit Smoking by Colleen Fleiss on December 23, 2020 at 9:08 PM
Electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes, in the form of mass-marketed consumer products do not lead smokers to quit smoking, said a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health, a team led by UCSF s Richard Wang, MD, MAS.
E-cigarette use has risen steeply and mostly without regulation over the past decade. The devices have diversified into a dizzying array of vape pens, tank systems, mods, and more, mass-marketed and sold to the public.
In these applications and related advertisements, the owners of e-cigarette brands claim that their products help smokers quit and can therefore be considered appropriate for the protection of public health, as stipulated by law. But a new systematic review by UC San Francisco researchers of the scientific literature on this topic puts those claims to the test.
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IMAGE: Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center based at Rutgers and an associate professor of Urban-Global Public Health in the Rutgers School of Public Health. view more
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Military members who receive gun locks and lethal means counseling, which focuses on ways to limit a person s access to specific methods for suicide, are more likely to use a gun safe and unload firearms before they are stored, according to a Rutgers researcher.
The study was published in the
American Journal of Public Health.
More than 60 percent of military suicides involve firearms. Suicide mortality is higher in homes with a firearm and the majority of military personnel do not store their firearms safely or report suicidal thoughts, says Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center based at Rutgers and an associate professor of Urban-G
Rule changes make HIV prevention drugs more accessible
Federal and California rules require most private insurance to cover the full cost of drugs, such as Truvada, that offer protection against HIV infection.
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By Michelle Andrews
Ted Howard started taking Truvada a few years ago because he wanted to protect himself against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But the daily pill was so pricey he was seriously thinking about giving it up.
Under his insurance plan, the former flight attendant and customer service instructor was charged $500 a month in copayments for the drug plus $250 every three months for lab work and clinic visits.
Congress Doesn’t Care About Your Surprise Ambulance Bill
Dying? Hail an Uber, because lawmakers exempted ambulances from their medical-bill reforms much to private equity’s delight.
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While campaigning this spring in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s first congressional district, then–insurgent candidate Cori Bush found herself struggling to breathe: a hallmark symptom caused by the novel coronavirus that had originated mere months before in Wuhan, China. While now Representative-elect Bush’s case would soon prove severe enough to require hospitalization, she was initially terrified to call an ambulance acquiescing only when her friend Dr. Victoria Dooley insisted on calling one after hearing Bush’s strained efforts to describe what was happening to her over the phone. “I begged her not to because I couldn’t afford it,” Bush recounted on Twitter. “Nobody should have to make that decision.”