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Pediatrics Group: Minimum Age to Buy Tobacco, E-Cigarettes Should Be 21: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi,

Pediatrics Group: Minimum Age to Buy Tobacco, E-Cigarettes Should Be 21: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH The minimum age to purchase tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS, including e-cigarettes) should be 21, according to new...
Source: jwatch.org

A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset - Slashdot

A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes: This is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control

Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes: This is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Perth on October 21, 2015. E-cigarettes are the latest innovation in nicotine delivery products to fly the harm-reduction…
Source: theconversation.com

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered

Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered behavioral intervention to promote skin self-examination (SSE) and sun protection behaviors may already have higher knowledge of melanoma signs, according to a research letter...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Tough alcohol policies linked to lower death rates from liver damage: (HealthDay)—States with strong alcohol control policies

Tough alcohol policies linked to lower death rates from liver damage: (HealthDay)—States with strong alcohol control policies have lower death rates connected to alcohol-related liver damage, a new study finds.
Source: medicalxpress.com

NHS leadership in crisis as running hospitals becomes near-impossible | Denis Campbell: Health trusts are haemorrhaging

NHS leadership in crisis as running hospitals becomes near-impossible | Denis Campbell: Health trusts are haemorrhaging chief executives under pressure to balance the books and deliver high-quality care
Source: theguardian.com

Our book "Urban myths about learning and education" summarized on one page: Yesterday I discovered this one-page summary

Our book "Urban myths about learning and education" summarized on one page: Yesterday I discovered this one-page summary of our book by Oliver Cavigliol and it looks great (note to myself, be careful with the Coca Cola...). This is a new updated version, including my 2 co-...
Source: theeconomyofmeaning.com