Instagram's 'Big Tobacco' tactics? Eyebrow-raising study (funded by the tech giant) claims social media app doesn't trigger anxiety or depression, despite tonne of research stating the opposite
A UK study found that there was no significant link between browsing or posting videos and images or interacting with others' posts on Instagram and levels of anxiety, depression and loneliness. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tailored lung cancer screening model helps determine nodule follow-up
A personalized lung cancer screening model used with patients with pulmonary nodules identified on low-dose CT (LDCT) helps clinicians determine how to follow up better than rule-based protocols, researchers have found.
A group led by Zixing Wang, MD, of Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, found that a tailored model had a 0% rate of delayed diagnosis of lung cancer at 12-month follow-up. The results were published April 15 in Pulmonology.
Up to half of screened individuals have at least one pulmonary nodule on lung cancer screening, and determining the optimal time for follow-up testing of these nodules can ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 17, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: CT Source Type: news
UK inflation eases less than expected to 3.2% in March
Inflation in the U.K. eased to 3.2% in March, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. That was slightly higher than the forecast of economists polled of 3.1%, but was down from 3.4% in February. The core figure, excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, came in at 4.2%, compared…#bankofengland #andrewbailey #boe (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Sunak suffers Tory backlash as MPs back legislation to ban smoking
Almost 60 Conservatives oppose bill to stop anyone born after 2009 from ever being sold cigarettes legally (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
The measures, championed by PM Rishi Sunak, pass despite opposition by several leading Conservative figures. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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Sunak suffers Tory backlash as MPs back legislation to ban smoking
Almost 60 Conservatives oppose bill to stop anyone born after 2009 from ever being sold cigarettes legally (Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare)
Source: FT.com - Drugs and Healthcare - April 16, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
U.K. lawmakers pass ‘smoke-free generation’ bill, one of world’s strictest
The law would prevent people born in 2009 and later from ever buying a cigarette — and has stoked a rebellion in Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: William Booth Source Type: news
UK lawmakers back landmark bill to gradually phase out smoking for good
A plan by Britain’s government to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking has cleared its first hurdle in Parliament despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party (Source: ABC News: Health)
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Italy's Turin Orders Outdoor Smokers to Keep Their Distance Italy's Turin Orders Outdoor Smokers to Keep Their Distance
The northern Italian city of Turin has banned outdoor smoking unless other people are at least five metres away, in what Mayor Stefano Lo Russo called a " common sense " ...Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Pulmonary Medicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape Pulmonary Medicine Headlines - April 16, 2024 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Why Rishi Sunak's 'mad' smoking ban 'is destined to fail': Critics warn trailblazing law to stop Generation Alpha getting hooked on cigarettes will prove a 'charter for criminals' - amid fears health chiefs may take aim at sugar, caffeine and alcohol next
Under the Prime Minister's hotly-contested proposal, being debated in parliament today, anyone born after 2009 won't ever be able to legally buy tobacco. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
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UK lawmakers will vote on a landmark bill to gradually phase out smoking
British lawmakers are set to vote on the government’s plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking (Source: ABC News: Health)
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MPs to vote on smoking ban for those born after 2009
Rishi Sunak's bill aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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The U.K. to Vote on World ’s Only Generational Smoking Ban
The U.K. House of Commons will vote Tuesday on the “Tobacco and Vapes Bill” that would make it illegal for anyone born in 2009 or beyond to buy tobacco and add restrictions to vaping. Its passage would amount to an effective lifetime ban on smoking for those under the age of 15.
The bill was backed by Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has referred to tobacco as “the single biggest entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability, and death.”
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While the bill has support from lawmakers from both the opposition Labour and ruling Conserv...
Source: TIME: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Gordon Tags: Uncategorized News News Desk Source Type: news
The U.K. Advances Bill that Would Create World ’s Only Generational Smoking Ban
The U.K. House of Commons voted Tuesday to advance the “Tobacco and Vapes Bill” that would make it illegal for anyone born in 2009 or beyond to buy tobacco and add restrictions to vaping. Legislators voted in favor of the bill in a 383- to-67 vote.
The bill would amount to an effective lifetime ban on smoking for those under the age of 15 and has now moved forward from its second reading to the committee stage.
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“This isn’t about freedom to choose, it’s about freedom [from] addiction,” said Minister Andrea Leadsom during the ...
Source: TIME: Health - April 16, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Gordon and Solcyré Burga Tags: Uncategorized News News Desk Source Type: news
What is the smoking ban and how will it work?
The government wants to stop people smoking by raising the legal age limit for buying cigarettes. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
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