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Thursday, 11 September 2014

11/09/2014 - Sale of e-cigarettes tackled by county council (Pembrokeshire County Council)

(Source: Pembrokeshire County Council) Sale of e-cigarettes tackled by county council Pembrokeshire County Council is taking the lead in Wales in tackling the sale of e-cigarettes to young people. The Council's Trading Standards team launched a new E-cigarette Responsible Retailer scheme yesterday (Wednesday) asking local retailers to agree to stop selling them to under-18s. At present there is no legal restriction on the sale of e-cigarettes to children and young people in Wales...

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Inviting Ontarians to screen for cancer - Cancer Care Ontario expands correspondence program to include cervical cancer (CCO - Cancer Care Ontario) noodls

(Source: CCO - Cancer Care Ontario) Cancer Care Ontario is reaching out to men and women to encourage them to screen for breast, colorectal and for the first time, cervical cancer, with an expanded direct-mail correspondence campaign. Previously, letters were used to invite and remind eligible...

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Fighting lung cancer: Faster image processing for low-radiation CT scans (University of Michigan) noodls

(Source: University of Michigan) ANN ARBOR-A new $1.9 million study at the University of Michigan seeks to make low-dose computed tomography scans a viable screening technique by speeding up the image reconstruction from half an hour or more to just five minutes. The advance could be particularly...

ASPPH Welcomes Class of 2014 ASPPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield Global Health Fellows (ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) noodls

(Source: ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) ASPPH is pleased to announce the selection of 31 new fellows who will engage in an intensive one-year assignment at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), within the Center for Global Health (CGH). The ASPPH/CDC Allan Rosenfield...

Expanded Express Scripts Lab Fuels Informed Decisions (UBC - United BioSource Corporation) noodls

(Source: UBC - United BioSource Corporation) In 2010, Express Scripts opened the industry's first-of-its-kind research and testing facility. Earlier this year, the Lab expanded in size and capabilities, bringing together more than 100 Health Decision...

Early Bird Registration Ends Friday, September 12 for the 2014 Undergraduate Education for Public Health Summit (ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) noodls

(Source: ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) The fourth annual Undergraduate Education for Public Health Summit will be held in New Orleans,...

ASPPH Partners with AIA and ACSA in New Initiative (ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) noodls

(Source: ASPH - Association of Schools of Public Health) The AIA Foundation, the American Institute of Architects, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and the...

The high price of antibiotic overuse CBS News

Doctors prescribing multiple antibiotics can cause health problems and waste millions of dollars, experts say...