OUR VIEW: Looking Back at Report on Smoking
OUR VIEW: Looking back at report on smoking
It also linked cigarettes to emphysema, heart disease and underweight births, and concluded that smokers had a 70 percent higher age-corrected death rate than non-smokers. Those findings topped news reports in a major way, basically because they …
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Brisbane's original 'rock chick' fighting for life
Lloyd – singer/songwriter for 70s blues rock outfit Railroad Gin and Queensland's original “rock chick” – has been contemplating her own mortality for almost a year, after being diagnosed with a terminal lung disease last April. She's been on an …
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Death rates soar among Montana women using prescription drugs
For men, the rate increased by 3.6 times. In 2010, some 943,365 women nationally visited an emergency room for drug misuse or abuse. The highest number of visits were for cocaine or heroin, benzodiazepines, and opioid pain relievers. Closer to home …
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