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NewsLeading hospitals enter anti-smoking pact
Ten Massachusetts hospitals, including some of the nation's leading hospitals, entered a citywide pact, committed to instituting smoke-free campuses. To coincide with the annual Great American Read more...
Hospitals must shoulder smokers' costs, court decides
After 13 years, a St. Louis circuit court may have laid to rest the question of whether tobacco companies should have to pay for the care of smokers who are indigent or don't pay their hospital Read more...
Pennsylvania hospital joins a growing list banning nicotine use
Pennsylvania-based St. Luke's Hospital & Health Network is taking its cue from systems in Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and New York by enforcing a policy of not hiring nicotine users. Beginning May 1, Read more...
No-smoking trend picks up steam
In January, news broke that Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System would begin screening potential new hires for tobacco and nicotine use and withdraw job offers when candidates test Read more...
Tenn. healthcare system won't hire smokers
Smokers need not apply at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Memorial Health Care System. In a controversial move that some call bold and others label as discriminatory, the Southeast's' leading medical system Read more...
Obesity problems outweigh smoking progress
If the U.S. obesity epidemic continues, it could make the decline in smokers a moot point interms of health gains in the U.S., warns a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Smoking Read more...
Study: Quitting smoking before surgery improves patient outcomes
Patients who smoke had best stop doing so before they have surgery. That's the conclusion drawn by a group of German medical researchers, who have concluded that that patients who kick the habit Read more...
Cancer rates drop for first time
There's good news on the cancer front: For the first time since the government started keeping track, the rate of cancer in the U.S. has decreased. Researchers already knew that the number of cancer Read more...
ALSO NOTED: FDA admits it can't afford to boost foreign inspections; Researchers test anti-smoking vaccine; and much more...
> The FDA has conceded that maybe, just maybe, it will need more money if it's going to do a good job of inspecting foreign drug manufacture sites. Read more...
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