These Are the Most and Least Expensive Handgun Rounds
Handguns — a category that includes both pistols and revolvers — have ranked as the best selling firearm in the United States for well over a decade. According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, handguns have accounted for over 40% of all domestic firearm production every…#explosives #atf #pewresearchcenter #ammopricesnow #cartridgeballistics #22longrifle #avg #markiv #beretta #wmr (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Most Exciting New Advances in Managing COPD
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, or GOLD, is the world’s preeminent COPD research and advocacy organization. Founded in 1997 in collaboration with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the World Health Organization, one of GOLD’s stated aims is to “improve prevention and treatment of this lung disease.” In its 2023 global strategy report, GOLD changed its definition of COPD—which many in the profession viewed as overdue. Specifically, the new definition emphasized the heterogeneity of COPD in terms of its underlying drivers and long-term disease course. [ti...
Source: TIME: Health - March 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Markham Heid Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news

Weed Plus Cigarettes Takes Toll on High Schoolers' Grades
MONDAY, March 18, 2024 -- High school students who use tobacco and cannabis products miss more school and have lower grades than classmates who use them individually or not at all.That ' s the conclusion of a study by researchers at UC Davis... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 18, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

The association between physical availability of cannabis retail outlets and frequent cannabis use and related health harms: a systematic review - Cantor N, Silverman M, Gaudreault A, Hutton B, Brown C, Elton-Marshall T, Imtiaz S, Sikora L, Tanuseputro P, Myran DT.
An increasing number of regions have or are considering legalising the sale of cannabis for adult use. Experience from tobacco and alcohol regulation has found that greater access to physical retail stores is positively associated with increased substance ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 18, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

3 Tempting Tobacco Stocks to Buy as Indulgence Rates Rise
This old industry is making a comeback When it comes to controversial publicly traded investments, few are as notorious as tobacco stocks. Of course, it wasn’t always this way. Notably, the television series Mad Men reflected the cultural norms of the time, which in some ways celebrated smoking.…#madmen #philipmorris #marlboro #yahoofinance #turningpointbrands #tpb #turningpoint #eps #q3 #bti (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Three Buffett-esque lessons from the forgotten ‘Witch of Wall Street’
Imagine the world’s wealthiest woman strolling down Wall Street sporting an all-black outfit, including a veil, and smoking cheap cigars with a group of reporters in tow. For New Yorkers of the late 1800s and 1900s, that odd picture was actually a common sight. The whaling heiress turned investing…#newyorkers #hettygreen #witchofwallstreet #newyorkcity #federalreservesystem #warrenbuffett #benjamingraham #intelligentinvestor #green #hoboken (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Unravelling the risk of poisoning from nicotine-containing tobacco products in children less than five years of age - Crosby LM.
For decades, young children in the United States have been accidentally poisoned by traditional tobacco products and the yearly incidence has slowly increased. More poisonings have accompanied the introduction of new products such as e-cigarettes and disso... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

MRI shows effects of high blood pressure on the brain
High blood pressure has a negative effect on the brain's white matter -- and not just in older adults but in younger ones as well, researchers have reported. A study conducted by a team led by Junyeon Won, PhD, of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas found that diffusion-weighted MRI brain white matter metrics showed a connection between hypertension and white matter abnormalities. Their results were published March 15 in Hypertension. "[We found that] high blood pressure and high hypertension stage were associated with [diffusion-weighted MRI white matter brain characteristics]," the group wrote. High blood pre...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News Subspecialties MRI Neuroradiology Source Type: news

Calcifications on mammo could identify women at risk of CVD
Detecting breast arterial calcifications on routine mammograms could identify women at a higher risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD), a study published March 13 in Clinical Imaging found. Researchers led by Shadi Azam, PhD, from Weill Cornell Medicine in New York found links between such calcifications and older age, diabetes, parity, younger age at first birth, and hypertension in women who underwent both screening mammography and cardiac CT angiography (CCTA). “Additionally, we found that when neither breast arterial calcifications nor coronary arterial calcifications were present, the estimated 10-year risk o...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Womens Imaging Source Type: news

Zambia: Zambian Women Are Obsessed With Using Tobacco for Sex - Despite the Health Risks
[Global Press Journal] Lusaka, Zambia -- They ingest snuff to self-medicate and insert it in their vaginas to increase their partner's sexual pleasure. But smokeless tobacco could compound the already steep health challenges they face. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Southern Africa Women and Gender Zambia Source Type: news

Altria (NYSE:MO) Plans to Sell $2.2B Worth of BUD Shares - TipRanks.com
Tobacco giant Altria (NYSE:MO) announced plans to sell a significant portion of its shares in beer company Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD) via a secondary offering. This move will allow Altria to cash in on its investment and boost buybacks. Looking to raise $2.2 billion from the sale, according…#anheuserbuschinbev #bud #bloombergaltria #anheuserbusch #altria #holds (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exposure Among Middle and High School Students to Warning Labels on E-Cigarette Packages Before and After an FDA Requirement, 2018-2019
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Source: CDC Preventing Chronic Disease - March 14, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Cancer death rates in middle-age Brits 'have fallen by a third since the early 90s'- but cases could rise with growing obesity levels
Death rates from the disease among 35 to 69-year-olds have plummeted as a result of screening, better treatments and the fall in smoking rates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

CT-FFR shows how smoking affects heart volume-to-myocardial mass ratio
Both current and former smokers show lower coronary volume-to-myocardial mass ratio (V/M) on CT fractional flow reserve (CT-FFR), researchers have found. In a study published March 14 in Radiology: Cardiothoracic Imaging, a team led by Kenneth Holmes, MD, of St Paul's Hospital and University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, reported that smoking was associated with lower coronary volume-to-myocardial mass ratio in individuals with coronary artery disease (CAD) -- results that further cement the link between smoking and heart disease. "[We found that] current and former smoking were independently associated with ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 14, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Clinical News CT Cardiovascular Radiology Source Type: news

Cancer death rates in middle-age Brits 'have fallen by a third since the early 90s'
Death rates from the disease among 35 to 69-year-olds have plummeted as a result of screening, better treatments and the fall in smoking rates. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news