Month: February 2014

British American Tobacco will become the biggest tobacco company to show a television advert for e-cigarettes in Britain on Monday but will leave out any reference to ‘smokers’ to comply with laws which ban the promotion of tobacco products. Soaring sales of e-cigarettes, metal tubes with batteries which heat nicotine-laced liquids into a vapor, have caught the eye of some of the world’s biggest tobacco companies including BAT, Altria Group and Imperial Tobacco. A consultation into the rules governing e-cigarette advertising is due to be launched shortly by UK regulators governing print, online and broadcast advertising but BAT said the current rules left e-cigarette advertising unclear. E-cigarettes are seen as less harmful than regular cigarettes and a useful way to wean smokers off their habits but critics say they can act as a gateway to nicotine addiction and that more research is needed on the health implications.

By Kathleen Raven NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who have had a knee or hip replacement reap the benefits of intense rehab months after they've returned home, according to a new analysis. "If you can get patients to a certain threshold level, they can do the rest of the rehabilitation on their own," coauthor Kenneth Ottenbacher told Reuters Health. Ottenbacher directs the Center for Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He and his team analyzed data from 12,199 U.S. patients who underwent knee or hip replacement between 2008 and 2010.

Medicine is one industry that has seemingly remained unaffected by the evolution of creative design techniques. Each shipment is delivered in a two-week roll of packs, organized by date.

A Mississippi mother expecting rare idential triplets received a shocking surprise just days before Valentine’s Day.        

It’s hard to know what’s real and what’s just PR, but here are nine surprising people – or groups of people – who, based on my reporting and research, are actually pretty serious about meditation.        

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea said on Monday a United Nations report on its human rights record due to be issued later in the day was based on material faked by hostile forces backed by the United States, the European Union and Japan. A statement sent to Reuters from the Communist state's diplomatic mission in Geneva said that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea "categorically and totally rejects the report," drawn up by a three-member Commission of Inquiry. The two-page North Korean statement, in English, said the report was an "instrument of a political plot aimed at sabotaging the socialist system" and defaming the country. And it denounced the Commission as "a marionette running here and there in order to represent the ill-minded purposes of the string-pullers, such as the United States, Japan and the member states of the EU." The Commission was set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council a year ago at the request of the European Union, the United States and Japan under a resolution adopted by consensus at the 47-member state forum.

"I think this is overwhelming support for early interventions and immediate interventions and really advancing the science about interventions," Laura Bogart, from Boston Children's Hospital, told Reuters Health. In the past, when researchers have surveyed students at one point in time, children and teens who were being bullied tended to score lower on measures of physical and mental health. They analyzed data from the Healthy Passages study, which surveyed students in Alabama, California and Texas about how much bullying they experienced and evaluated their physical and mental health. Generally, those who had been bullied in the past scored better on measures of physical and mental health, compared to those who were currently being bullied.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia says a Saudi man has died from a new respiratory virus related to SARS, bringing to 60 the number of deaths in the kingdom at the center of the outbreak.

While this post is certainly not meant to diagnose anyone, here are five indications that your healthy efforts may have morphed into detrimental patterns.