January 19th, 2010 by Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion
Tags: Comparative Risk Claim, FDA, Philip Morris, Smokeless Tobacco, smoking, smoking cessation
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The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 6 that Philip Morris and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., both parts of the Altria Group Inc., wrote to the FDA suggesting that tobacco products be ranked on their harmfulness to health. This would most likely result in smokeless tobacco products being ranked as markedly less harmful than cigarettes. Philip Morris apparently claimed the plan would have “a significant public-health benefit.” (assuming smokers took the rankings at face value and switched from more to less harmful products).
Now at face value, this sounds reasonably sensible. But when we consider that Philip Morris USA makes the vast majority of its profits from cigarette sales, and the plan would apparently reduce those sales as smokers switched to smokeless products, it is reasonable to wonder what they are playing at. Read more »
This post, Why Would Philip Morris Support Smokeless Tobacco Products? To Maintain Dependency On Nicotine?, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Jonathan Foulds, Ph.D..
January 19th, 2010 by RamonaBatesMD in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion
Tags: addiction, Advice, Heidi Montag, Joan Rivers, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, Psychology
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A few years ago I wrote about the “Suitability” of a patient for plastic surgery. I was reminded of this topic by two cases in the recent lay media:
The first involves Heidi Montag, 23, who in November had multiple surgical procedures and is being compared to Joan Rivers.
According to People, Montag even kept her family in the dark about her intended transformation to become her “best me.” Telling only her husband Spencer Pratt, Montag had a nose job revision, chin reduction, mini brow lift, Botox in her forehead and frown area, fat injections in her cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips, neck liposuction, ear pinning, liposuction on her waist, hips, inner and outer thighs, buttock augmentation and breast augmentation revision. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Suture for a Living*
January 19th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Health Tips, Video
Tags: ABC News, Carpal Tunnel, Check Your Neck, Depression, Endocrinology, Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, January, Let's Talk Live, Natasha Barrett, Thyroid Cancer, Thyroid Disease Awareness Month, Thyroid Nodule, Twitter
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January is thyroid disease awareness month, and I was invited to educate the good people at Let’s Talk Live about this often-forgotten little gland. For this segment, I used Twitter to poll my friends about interesting thyroid factoids. Thanks to Nick Genes @blogborygmi who reminded me of the connection between carpal tunnel syndrome and hypothyroidism and to Meredith Gould @meredithgould who mentioned that depression sometimes has a thyroid-related cause.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCk1MA5dhjY
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January 18th, 2010 by Nancy Brown, Ph.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, Health Tips
Tags: California, Fact Sheet, Health, National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality, NICHQ, Pediatrics
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The National Initiative for Children’s HealthCare Quality (NICHQ) has a website where you can find fact sheets about the state of children’s health in each state. The State Fact Sheets provide the most recent national and state-based data regarding health in addition to childhood overweight and obesity prevalence from data collected in 2007 by the National Survey of Children’s Health.
For overall health in California the (2007) fact sheet suggests that compared to national averages, children in CA are:
- less likely to be in excellent or good health; Read more »
This post, Children’s Health Fact Sheets: Californian Kids Not Doing Well, was originally published on
Healthine.com by Nancy Brown, Ph.D..
January 18th, 2010 by Edwin Leap, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Tips, Opinion
Tags: Accountability, Buck Stop, Emergency Medicine, Healthcare reform
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‘Let’s get us some of that REform!’
I must admit I’m a little weary of the entire debate on health-care reform. But something still haunts me. And that something is accountability. Of course, over the almost twenty years that I have borne the title ‘MD,’ I’ve learned a few things about accountability.
I understand that, almost without fail, the buck stops with me. The nursing home director knows the elderly lady wasn’t seriously hurt in that fall, but he sends her to the ER ‘just to check things out.’ That is, just to make sure that if a problem does crop up, someone else is accountable for finding it. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at edwinleap.com*
