By PAULA SPAN from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2TWQMZD
Friday, 15 March 2019
Heart Guidelines Rarely Backed by Good Science
Less than one in 10 recommendations are based on results from multiple randomized controlled trials (considered the "gold standard"), and that percentage has actually dropped in the past decade, the researchers reported.
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States Raising Smoking Age to Combat Teen Vaping
Newly released numbers from the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey show more than 3.6 million teens used e-cigarettes in 2018. Those numbers include a 78% increase from 2017 in use among high schoolers and a 48% increase among middle schoolers.
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Tobacco, E-Cigarette Lobbyists Circle as F.D.A. Chief Exits
By SHEILA KAPLAN and MATT RICHTEL from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2JfuDl5
