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Objective To assess whether smoke-free restaurant laws influence the progression from (1) never smoking to early experimentation and (2) early experimentation to established smoking.
Design A longitudinal, 4-year, 3-wave study of a representative sample of Massachusetts youth.
Setting A total of 301 Massachusetts communities.
Participants Study participants were 3834 Massachusetts youths aged 12 to 17 years at baseline, [...]
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Objectives To describe practical ways for pediatric providers to screen children for exposure to potentially traumatic events and trauma symptoms, provide brief office-based pediatric interventions for trauma-exposed children, engage families in mental health care referrals, and recognize elements of evidence-based practices for traumatized children.
Main Exposure Many children exposed to potentially traumatic events develop severe and [...]
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
Last Updated: 7:01pm BST April 10, 2008
The use of asbestos half a century ago has triggered an epidemic that will kill 200,000 people in Britain through lung cancer and mesothelioma, an untreatable cancer of the mesothelium, a thin membrane that lines the chest.
The disease can develop up to 60 years after [...]
Researchers from Leeds in the UK have reported that the incidence of mesothelioma is increasing and that the prognosis is worse than ascertained in selected studies from referral institutions. The details of this study appeared in an early online publication in Thorax on January 17, 2008.1
Most of the recent publications concerning malignant mesothelioma involve clinical [...]
A further 45 people have been confirmed with health problems after exposure to asbestos from a former factory site in Ota Ward, Tokyo, the ward office said Saturday.
One man in his 70s died in October of pericardial mesothelioma–a form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos–and seven other people developed health problems after inhaling asbestos, [...]
