Conclusions: Structural inequities and ‘everyday’ violence are perilously damaging for women who use crack. Interventions to reduce these inequities are urgently needed if we are to reduce the significant suffering of women who are street-involved and use crack cocaine
A series of letters that Altria submitted to the F.D.A. as part of that process argues that the government should, effectively, sign off on the notion that smokeless tobacco products are less harmful than cigarettes — and that Altria and other companies should be allowed to market them as such to consumers.
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Tagged companies, government, green-or-silver, harvard, harvard-school, industry, people, public-health, summer, tobacco, world-health
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
A paper by a University of Hertfordshire academic due to be published tomorrow (29 January 2010), reports that excess ecstasy-related death rates in young users is a cause for concern…
The study, which was published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and funded by the National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan, tested two separate intervention methods to assess the eating patterns of dementia patients in Taiwan. Loss of memory and problems with judgement in dementia patients can cause difficulties in relation to eating and nutrition…
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Tagged eating, eating-patterns, geriatric, geriatric-psychiatry, international, national, national-health, research, research-institutes, taiwan, taiwan-loss, tested-two
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One of many reasons that attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings helps people with alcohol use disorders stay sober appears to be alleviation of depression. A team of researchers has found that study participants who attended AA meetings more frequently had fewer symptoms of depression – along with less drinking – than did those with less AA participation…
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Food and Drug Administration “this week released a draft of voluntary guidelines to assist drug makers in figuring out which compounds should be placed under the Controlled Substances Act…
The Royal College of Nursing welcomed a new Department of Health campaign to combat excessive drinking as it responded to news from the Office of National Statistics that the number of deaths caused by alcohol consumption is continuing to rise…
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Tagged alcohol-consumption, combat-excessive, department, from-the-office, health, national, national-statistics, number, nursing, office, royal, royal-college
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Omeros Corporation (Nasdaq: OMER) announced that the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is providing support for the Company’s Addiction program.
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Tagged abuse, addiction, corporation, costs, institute, institute-on-drug, national, national-institute, nida, omeros-corporation, phase, state, state-psychiatric, the-costs, will-fund
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Alcohol increases the risk of violence in couples – especially violence both to and by the female partner. A new study of couples found that experienced intimate partner violence found 30.2 percent reported alcohol use before or during the event.
Three new regional research centres that will study violence and ways to prevent it will receive almost $6 million over five years from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, made the announcement at a national roundtable that brought together leading Canadian researchers on violence, gender and health research…
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