Under the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, manufacturers could no longer produce tobacco labeled or advertised “light,” “low” or “mild” after June 22, 2010, or distribute it after July 22, though retailers may sell off remaining stock.
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Lifestyle
"Shockumentary" Inspires Cosmetic Reform
The Personal Care Products Council proposed that cosmetics plants register with FDA, disclose ingredients and report serious adverse events. The plan follows the Story of Cosmetics video, which says fewer than 20 percent of cosmetic chemicals have been assessed by the safety panel.
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Cancer Prevention Starts in Childhood
Parents are urged to shield children from UV rays with shade at midday, covering clothing, wide-brimmed hats, wraparound sunglasses and SPF 15 or higher, and to keep them out of tanning beds. The piece also describes the three-shot HPV vaccine recommended for girls aged 11 and 12.
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A Simple Way to Reduce Your Cholesterol - Better than Drugs
Researchers report major discrepancies between the cuts in nonfatal stroke and heart attack claimed by the JUPITER statin trial and findings from other research, calling the trial's data set biased and questioning drug company involvement.
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Are Cell Phones the New Cigarettes?
Maureen Dowd asks in the New York Times whether cell phones are the next cigarettes, citing a study of people who began using them as teenagers that calculated a 400 percent rise in brain tumors after 10 years. San Francisco now makes retailers display radiation levels.
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Avandia will stay on the market, but you don't have to take it
An FDA advisory panel voted 20 to 12 to keep Avandia on the market, though tougher label warnings may follow. The piece argues patients can ask for Actos instead, which cardiologist Steven Nissen and FDA reviewer David Graham say offers similar benefits far more safely.
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Where can I learn about adopting a child?
A reference page explaining that adoption permanently transfers parental rights and responsibilities from birth parents to adoptive parents, that states differ on open and closed adoption, and that stepparent and relative adoptions are handled more simply than other types.
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THIS Asthma Solution Costs No Money…
A four-year study of more than 1,000 children with asthma found those who started with vitamin D insufficiency were 50 percent more likely to have a severe attack requiring hospital care, after accounting for asthma severity, weight and family income.
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Is Exercise the Best Drug for Depression?
Psychologist Jasper Smits is testing exercise as a treatment for anxiety and mood disorders. Aerobic programs have repeatedly improved depression about as much as medication does and appear to prevent relapse, and researchers suggest exercise may shift serotonin and norepinephrine.
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Real Contraceptive Choices: Alternatives to Risky Hormone Pills, Patches and Shots
Mercola writes that 80% of American women have used oral contraceptives, and argues their convenience is outweighed by serious health risks, since pills, patches and injections are potent synthetic hormones. He says doctors rarely mention natural family planning options.
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Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 9
A study found breast development now begins at an average age of 9 years and 10 months, a year earlier than a comparable 1991 study. Mercola connects early puberty to chemical exposure, citing earlier work on PBB-contaminated animal feed and on phthalates in Puerto Rican girls.
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Cigarette Use Among High School Students --- United States, 1991--2009
CDC's analysis of Youth Risk Behavior Survey data shows lifetime cigarette use among high school students fell from 70.1 percent in 1991 to 46.3 percent in 2009, current use from a 1997 peak of 36.4 percent to 19.5 percent, and frequent use to 7.3 percent, with the declines slowing after 2003.
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Physical Fitness Reduces Chronic Disease Risk
An epidemiological study of college students linked fitness and body fat to metabolic risk factors, with fitness mattering more for some: fit women had lower triglycerides and higher HDL, fit men lower blood glucose. CDC data show obesity flat at 28 percent as exercise rose.
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100 Years Old and Counting
Boston University researchers built a model from 150 genetic variants that predicted survival into the late 90s and beyond with high accuracy, and identified 19 genetic clusters covering 90 percent of the centenarians studied. They say more work is needed to explain how the variants act together.
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Study Shows Link Between Viagara and STDs
Reviewing health claims from 1.4 million men over 40, researchers found the 34,000 prescribed erectile dysfunction drugs were two to three times more likely to have a sexually transmitted disease. The lead author cautions the drugs may not be what drives the link.
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Study Shows Link between Depression and Dementia
Following about 1,000 Framingham Heart Study participants for up to 17 years, University of Massachusetts researchers found depression doubled the risk of dementia and substantially raised Alzheimer's risk. Whether the link is causal or merely associative still needs further research.
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Childhood obesity on the rise in the U.S.
Seventeen percent of Americans aged 2 to 19 were obese in 2007-2008. Among 6- to 11-year-olds the rate climbed from 6.5 to 19.6 percent since around 1980, and one study found 80 percent of children overweight at ages 10 to 15 were obese by 25.
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Study: Too Much TV Creates Attention Problems
Iowa State researcher Edward Swing followed 1,300 third through fifth graders and 210 college students; those who watched the most television were 1.6 to 2.2 times more likely to show attention problems 13 months later. Pediatrics published the findings.
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