Archive for December, 2009

5 Tips to help you achieve your health-related goals and more

Year after year, New Year’s resolutions are one of the first things to fall by the wayside after the flush of fresh optimism at the beginning of the new calendar year has faded. The following five tips can help you stay on track with your health and other goals – and make this year a [...]

Waterpipe Smoking More Dangerous Than Cigarettes

Smoking from a hookah, or waterpipe, has become trendy among college-age Americans, in part because of the belief that hookahs are a safer alternative to smoking. In fact, the opposite is true, as a new study demonstrates.
 
Reuters reported Dec. 7 that researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and the American University of Beirut studied a group [...]

State Health Department Announces New Mobile Medical Pharmacy Unit

Important addition to state’s public heath preparedness resources
 
        FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 24, 2009) – The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) and the Kentucky Pharmacists Association (KPhA) announced today that a new mobile pharmacy unit has been acquired to provide pharmaceutical services in support of disasters and emergencies.
         “The acquisition of this mobile pharmacy [...]

H1N1 Phishing Alert

The CDC/OCISO Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) has received reports of fraudulent emails (phishing) referencing a CDC sponsored State Vaccination Program.
The messages request that users must create a personal H1N1 (swine flu) Vaccination Profile on the cdc.gov website. The message then states that anyone that has reached the age of 18 has to have [...]

Nicotine levels higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke in the home

PHILADELPHIA – New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
 
Specifically, hair nicotine concentrations were higher in children exposed to secondhand smoke at home, and the younger the [...]

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