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NYC gets tough on tobacco, raises purchase age to 21

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, 19 November 2013 0 comments
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation Tuesday raising the tobacco-purchasing age from 18 to 21. The law takes effect in six months.
  Want to buy these in New York? Better be 21.
In addition to the "Tobacco 21" bill, which also covers electronic cigarettes, Bloomberg signed a second bill, dubbed Sensible Tobacco Enforcement, which prohibits discounts on tobacco products and increases enforcement on vendors who attempt to evade taxes. New York State's Department of Health estimates that cigarette excise tax evasion deprived the state of $500 million in 2009.
"By increasing the smoking age to 21, we will help prevent another generation from the ill health and shorter life expectancy that comes with smoking," Bloomberg said in a written statement when the legislation was approved by the city council in October.
New York City becomes the largest city to have an age limit as high as 21. Needham, Massachusetts, raised the sale age to 21 in 2005, according to the New York City Department of Health.
Neighboring states and counties have raised the tobacco sale age to 19, including New Jersey in 2005, the Department of Health said.
Raising the sale age "will protect teens and may prevent many people from ever starting to smoke," Health Commissioner Thomas A. Farley said in a statement released after the vote.
Doctors support raising the smoking age
This is the latest step in the outgoing mayor's mission for healthier New York City lifestyles.
In September 2012, the Board of Health voted to ban the sale of sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces in restaurants and other venues, a measure Bloomberg spearheaded.
The ban was later tossed out by a New York State Supreme Court judge.

J&J in $2.5 billion hip-device settlement

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Johnson & Johnson said late Tuesday that it will pay $2.5 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits brought by hip replacement patients who accuse the company of selling faulty implants that led to injuries and additional surgeries.
The agreement presented in U.S. District Court in Toledo, Ohio, is one of the largest for the medical device industry. It resolves an estimated 8,000 cases of patients who had to have the company's metal ball-and-socket hip implant removed or replaced. J&J pulled the implant from the market in 2010 after data showed it failed sooner than older implants.
The deal provides roughly $250,000 per patient and covers those who had their implants removed or replaced before Aug. 31 this year. The company expects to make most of the payments to patients in 2014.

The way people describe cancer?

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 Are army metaphors such as "battling" always appropriate when it comes to melanoma, requests Phil Graystone.In summer time season of 1971 the US govt was under stress. After 10 expensive decades of implementation in Vietnam the community hunger for war was evaporating and Chief executive Rich Nixon was starting to take out soldiers.

It was against this qualifications that on 23 Dec 1971, Nixon finalized into law the Nationwide Cancer Act. He dedicated $1.5bn to what became known as "the war on cancer". Having did not subdue the Viet Cong, Nixon expected that dealing with an attacker that straight affected on an incredible number of People in america would provide him the most important success of his obama administration.

Nixon didn't beat melanoma of course, but he did convert the over stated claims we use to discuss it. Up to that factor melanoma had been a embarrassing key in many family members. Often melanoma sufferers weren't even informed what they were being affected by. Movie acting professional David John created the term "the Big C" to prevent labeling the illness. But through the Nineteen seventies melanoma obtained a new terminology.
For 40 decades the terminology of combat has taken over melanoma discussion.We have given melanoma a character and created an attacker of it, so that these days it's very common to discuss battling melanoma, battling melanoma, even throwing melanoma. Oncologists are coloured as brave fighters, the SAS of the healthcare globe - sometimes battling side to side with scalpels, sometimes using laser treatment, ray weapons and substance weaponry.

In truth, melanoma is a selection of many different illnesses, but we have converted them into only one attacker. It's probably no chance that this has occurred at a time when the US and the UK have been involved in the similarly subjective and apparently unwindable War on Terror

Co-op Group chair quits over Paul Flowers drugs claims

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 The Co-op Team seat has reconciled, saying "serious questions" have been brought up by the scandal over its former financial seat, John Blossoms.Mr Blossoms apologised after he was shot supposedly purchasing medication, while the Co-op has said it is analyzing.

Questions have also been brought up about Mr Flowers's proficiency in the part, to which he was hired truly.
Len Wardle, who led the panel that hired Mr Blossoms, said he sensed it was "right" that he walked down now.Meanwhile Bob Anderson, former us president of the Co-op Financial institution, is showing before MPs on the Treasury Choose Panel, where he is providing proof about the struggling bank and its takeover of the Britannia Developing Community. The organization said Mr Wardle had reconciled as seat of the team and from the panel "with immediate effect". He had organised the place since 2007 but declared last 30 days that he would stop working in May 2014.

"The latest details about the behavior of John Blossoms, the former seat of the Co-operative Financial institution, have brought up a variety of serious concerns for both the lender and the team," Mr Wardle said in a declaration.

"I led the panel that hired John Blossoms to cause the lender panel and under those conditions I think that it is right that I phase down now."

Hospitals in England told to publish staffing levels

Posted by Unknown Monday, 18 November 2013 0 comments

Hospitals in England are to be made to publish monthly details of whether they have enough nurses on their wards. 

 

Hospital nurses

 

From April, patients will be able to see the numbers on a new national safety website, and whether they meet recommended levels.
It forms part of the government's response to the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal, which will be laid before Parliament later.
Labour said the "new focus on recruitment" was long overdue.
The move has been called for by nurse leaders and MPs in recent months.
The neglect and abuse at the hospital between 2005 and 2008, which led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients, had already been well documented, but the £13m Francis Inquiry, published at the start of February, also revealed wider cultural problems in the NHS.
Intense debate It accused the NHS of putting corporate self-interest ahead of patients and concluded that the failings went from the top to the bottom of the system.
In total 290 recommendations were put forward and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to say most of them have been accepted, when he addresses MPs later.
It has already become clear steps such as creating an offence of wilful neglect to cover nurses and doctors and tougher standards for healthcare workers will be introduced.
But in recent months there has been intense debate about the issue of staffing levels - something the Francis Inquiry said should be looked at.
Continue reading the main story Jane Cummings Chief Nursing Officer
The Safe Staffing Alliance, which includes organisations such as the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), has called for a minimum ratio of one nurse to eight patients, while the Health Select Committee has said hospitals should follow the lead of hospitals like the Salford Royal, which displays staffing levels on individual wards.
The government has already asked the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the official advisory body for the health service, to look at how safe staffing should be measured.
Evidence suggests different levels of staffing are needed for different wards.

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