California quitline study shows telephone counseling cuts smoking
A New England Journal of Medicine study finds California's free quitline doubles quitting rates versus no counseling. The UCSD led program mailed self help materials and offered three sessions. after one month 21 percent quit with counseling vs 10 percent without. State quitlines spread nationwide aided by tobacco settlement funds.
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Renee Haapanen
California
Ventura
New England Journal of Medicine
University of California At San Diego
Shu- Hong Zhu
Angela Geiger
American Cancer Society
Austin
Texas
Steven A. Schroeder
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Colonia
Oxnard
Calif
Haapanen
Schroeder
Health-Care Foundation
South Dakota
Laurie Gill
Salmonella from blood donor linked to snake toxin exposure
A donor’s platelets contaminated with Salmonella, traced to a pet snake, were used in transfusions to two patients. One recipient died, the other survived. The case may be the first documented reptile to human transmission via platelet transfusion and was reported in The New England Journal of Medicine. The 47 year old snake owner donated on April 7, 2001.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Blood Institute
New England Journal of Medicine
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