Posted on February - 29 - 2012
Scary labels the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would require on cigarette packages later this year were nixed today.
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled the requirement that cigarette makers put the labels — some quite gruesome and all quite large — on their products would “violate the First Amendment by unconstitutionally compelling speech.”
Five tobacco companies, including R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard, are plaintiffs in the case. In November, the same judge had granted a preliminary injunction to block the labeling rules, a decision the administration appealed. Now
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Posted on February - 24 - 2012
A man who lost his thumb flew halfway across the country after learning about a procedure first featured on ABC7 News. Surgeons at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco have been perfecting the technique over the past few years.
Mike Stevens remembers the day his life changed. He was working on a large engine at his job in Mississippi when his hand contacted the fan blade. “And, within a second, the story was over,” he told ABC7.
After losing the entire thumb on his left hand, life and his work as a mechanic became exceedingly difficult. “I put a cam shaft in a Corvette. That usually takes me six hours and it took me probably 16,” he recalled.
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Posted on February - 21 - 2012
E-cigars are at their prime today more than ever. Electronic cigarettes or e-cigars are especially made as smoking cessation. This means that a smoker who is very much convinced of quitting the bad habit can resort to e-cigarettes to prevent feeling anxious and stressful about quitting. A lot of success stories roam the internet. There are special forums online that proves to be useful for e-cigarette users. Like a recovering alcoholic, a person who just recently quit cigarette is in need of a therapy and these forums proves its usefulness because it help encourage these smoke quitters to continue reaching for their goal. Read more…
Posted on February - 21 - 2012
She says provinces like Saskatchewan are “illustrative of what we might anticipate, especially if some of the efforts to try to reduce and hopefully even prevent new cases of HIV in the area in this context of injection drug use aren’t recognized and if we don’t take advantage of those strategies now.”
Up to 70 per cent of Cat Lake residents are addicted to prescription drugs such as the painkiller OxyContin, according to Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
Saskatchewan Chief Medical Health Officer Dr.
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