Mississippi Wins Over $3 Billion in Tobacco Settlement
Mississippi will receive about 1 percent of the national tobacco settlement, totaling over 3 billion dollars. Attorney General Mike Moore announced in Washington that the deal precedes a Pascagoula trial, with the state aiming to ensure its share and push national regulatory actions, including advertising restrictions.
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Washington
Pascagoula
Jackson County Chancery Court
Congress
White House
Local doctors leave Ottawa practice in two moves
Ottawa Family Physicians loses two physicians Lance A. Reynoso and Robert L. Brown with Reynoso departing July 25 after long service since 1989 and Brown Aug 31 after joining in 1994. Brown will work in student health at the University of Kansas while his family stays in Ottawa. Administrators say patient transfers are being arranged and recruitment is ongoing.
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Lance A. Reynoso
Robert L. Brown
Chad
Reynoso
Doctors
Ater
Brown
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Betty Franklin
Nurse Practitioner Joins Franklin County Health Department
Nola Alquist Turner, RN, joins Franklin County Health Department to perform KanBe Healthy physicals and family planning services on Mondays and Tuesdays. She will help launch the Kansas Breast and Cervical Cancer Initiative for women over 50, funded by CDC and Kansas Department of Health and Environment, drawing on 20 years at Topeka-Shawnee County Health Department.
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Franklin County Health Department
Nola Alquist Turner
Health Department
Kansas
Topeka-Shawnee County
Kansas Nurse Summit Guides Workplace Survival in Wichita
The Kansas Staff Nurse Summit a continuing nursing education seminar for direct patient care nurses will run Friday July 11 from 830 am to 4 pm at the Harvey Hotel Wichita KS Registration fees 25 KSNA members 35 non members before July 7 late or on site 30 members 45 non members Call KSNA at 913 233 8638 or email troberts echo sound net for registration and details.
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Kansas Staff Nurse
Harvey Hotel
S. Rock Road
Kansas State Nurses Association
KSNA
Troberts
Echo.sound.net
Study links inhaled steroid asthma to cataracts
A Sydney led study of 3 654 adults aged 49 to 97 finds inhaled steroids tied to higher cataract risk, with 27 percent of long users affected, more than five times the usual rate. Experts urge continuing treatment and warn against abrupt changes.
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Oston
Australia
McGill University
Montreal
Robert G. Cumming
University of Sydney
New England Journal of Medicine
Gary
Rachelefsky
University of California At Los Angeles
American Academy of Asthma, Allergy
Leo T. Chulack Jr
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston
Brigham and Women’s
Safety commission issues tips 4 fireworks safety
The Consumer Product Safety Commission notes 7600 fireworks injuries last year with a third to children under 15. It aims further reductions, bans unduly dangerous devices like M-80s, and warns against relighting fizzling fireworks. Suggestions include keeping water handy and lighting only on flat surfaces away from flammables.
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Consumer Product Safety Commission
Safety Commission
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Study defuses fears of living near power lines
A National Cancer Institute study finds no solid evidence that magnetic fields from high voltage lines increase childhood leukemia risk. Analyzed 638 ALL cases and 620 controls, with inside home measurements. only a non-significant 24 percent rise at very high fields. Experts differ on whether this settles the issue.
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National Cancer Institute
Leslie L. Robison
University of Minnesota
Robison
New England Journal of Medicine
Martha 8. Linet
United States
David Savitz
University of North Carolina
Charles Stevens
Salk Institute
National Research Council
U.S
Abortion pill trials expand to 10000 U S women
EW YORK AP A small abortion rights group will offer free RU 486 to 10000 U S women in research trials as a stopgap until nationwide distribution. Trials began with 1000 women in Rochester Bellevue Burlington Kalispell New York San Francisco and Seattle with new sites planned in New York Texas Maryland and Florida funded by the John Merck Fund. The FDA has approved testing but not final marketing.
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Burlington, Vt
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John Merck Fund
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Florida
Lader
France
Sweden
Great Britain
Food and Drug Administration
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