Big tobacco money dominates home stretch for Colorado ballot initiatives
Another infusion of money from big tobacco dominated the campaign finance reports filed this week for Colorado’s statewide ballot initiatives, as opponents to a proposed tax increase on cigarettes and other tobacco products pumped $6.2 million more into an already robust war chest. Virginia-based Altria, the parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris, has now contributed all $16.2 million toward the effort to defeat Amendment 72, which would add $1.75 in tax to a pack of cigarettes and chann..>> view originalMore than half of US kids don't get dental sealants, and the CDC wants schools to change that
How can elementary schools save nearly $50 per student? By bringing in dental professionals to put sealants on their molars, federal health officials said Tuesday.If that doesn’t sound like an education-related problem, consider this: Cavities that go untreated cause kids to do worse in school. A study in the American Journal of Public Health found that students whose oral health was rated “good, fair or poor” were about three times more likely to miss school because of dental pain compared wi..>> view originalReport: More than half of mentally ill US adults get no treatment
(Bigstock) Mental Health America just released its annual assessment of Americans with mental illness, the treatment they receive and the resources available to them — and the conclusions are sobering: Twenty percent of adults (43.7 million) have a mental health condition, and more than half of them do not receive treatment. Among youth, the rates of depression are rising, but 80 percent of children and adolescents either get insufficient treatment or none at all. [Obamacare promised bett..>> view originalHe ate a pepper so hot it tore a hole in his esophagus
From the innocuous bell pepper to the infamous ghost chile, here's a ranking of the spiciest peppers. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) A ghost pepper’s heat is described in terms normally reserved for carpet bombings. Its heat is measured at 1 million units on the Scoville scale, a per-mass measure of capsaicin — the chemical compound that imbues peppers with heat — that until recently was a world record. Peppers that pass the 1 million mark are called superhot; as a rule they are reddi..>> view originalJournal Entries: breast cancer awareness fundraiser
Handbags of Hope holds breast cancer awareness brunch Handbags of Hope Women's Breast Cancer Awareness sponsored "Belles in Pink Kentucky Derby Brunch," a fundraiser held Sunday, at the Culinary Conference Center at Hudson County Community College. The event featured Amber Marchese of Bravo TV's "Real Housewives of New Jersey" & WE "Marriage Bootcamp: Reality Stars" who spoke about her diagnosis when she was 31 years old. Aimed at education and awareness,100 per cent of the net profits from th..>> view originalZika Funds Not Going Anywhere Fast Until Next Year, HHS Says
Hundreds of millions of dollars approved by Congress last month to fight Zika won't go anywhere until the beginning of next year — almost a full year after it was first requested, federal officials said Tuesday. That's because it's entered the slow, bureaucratic world of the federal funding process. Cities, states and counties have to bid on the money, and federal agencies then decide who to give it to. Field Surveillance Coordinator Jeremy Vela uses tweezers to sort mosquitoes that ..>> view originalHave Type 2 Diabetes? Try Walking After Eating
Have Type 2 Diabetes? Try Walking After Eating Study found it lowered blood sugar levels more than other exercise, particularly if done after dinner WebMD News from HealthDay By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Oct. 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- For people with type 2 diabetes, a short walk after eating may help lower blood sugar levels more than exercising at other times of the day, a new study shows. A measurement of blood sugar called postprandial glycemia, which has been ..>> view originalCanadian Cancer Society: HPV-related oral cancers have risen dramatically in men
TORONTO -- Malignant tumours in the mouth and throat caused by the human papillomavirus have risen dramatically among men and could surpass the rate of HPV-induced cervical cancer in women, new statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society suggest. In a report released Wednesday, the organization said the incidence of HPV-related mouth and throat cancers jumped 56 per cent in males and 17 per cent in females between 1992 and 2012, the latest year for which statistics are available. An estim..>> view originalPrepping for flu season
Flu season is fast approaching, and 2016-17 vaccines are available for $25, though most insurance plans cover it.The vaccine is available by intramuscular administration only. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discontinued Flu Mist, the intranasal spray vaccine, after it was found it to be ineffective.Allison Walsh, advanced license nurse practitioner at the QuickCare clinic, 624 S. Roosevelt Ave, No. 101, in Burlington, has seen two or three patients in the past 10 days for fevers..>> view originalRoche's Tecentriq Wins FDA Nod for Additional Indication
Roche Holding AG (RHHBY - Analyst Report) announced that the FDA has approved its immuno-oncology drug, Tecentriq (atezolizumab), for an additional indication. Tecentriq has been approved for the treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients whose disease has progressed during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy, and have progressed on an appropriate FDA-approved targeted therapy if their tumor has EGFR or ALK gene abnormalities.With this approval, Tecentri..>> view original
Monday, October 31, 2016
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