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Oral Piercings Pose Potential Health Care Risks
Like clothing and hairstyles, oral piercings give teens and adults a way to express themselves. While trendy, this fashion statement poses a number of potential oral and overall health care risks. It"s also important to note that oral piercings most commonly involve the tongue, and also the lips, cheeks, uvula or a combination of sites. Oral piercings have been implicated in a number of adverse oral and systemic conditions.
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Effectiveness Of School Closure During A Flu Pandemic
An article published in the August edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases studies how the closing of schools during flu pandemics causes a health, social, and economic impact. The review is the work of Dr Simon Cauchemez and Professor Neil Ferguson, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, UK, and collaborators. They examined data from earlier epidemics and pandemics worldwide. They conclude that extended school closure early on can considerably relieve saturated hospitals by reducing the number of cases at the highest point of the pandemic. On the other hand, it is uncertain if the intervention would have a major impact on the total number of cases. Also, it is linked with high social and economical costs, and could potentially disrupt health care systems and other vital services. In closing, the review indicates that the ultimate decision to close schools for extended periods should cautiously consider the severity of the pandemic.
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AIDS Patients With Serious Complications Benefit From Early Retroviral Use, Stanford Study Shows
HIV-positive patients who don"t seek medical attention until they have a serious AIDS-related condition can reduce their risk of death or other complications by half if they get antiretroviral treatment early on, according to a new multicenter trial led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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World Lung Foundation Marks World No Tobacco Day With New Counter-Marketing And Advertising Campaigns

On World No Tobacco Day, World Lung Foundation is partnering with government health ministries in China and India to launch new tobacco counter-marketing campaigns in those countries, where the largest populations of smokers in the world reside. WLF also completed an online video for the World Health Organization, which will be disseminated globally. In Tianjin, China, WLF is launching a campaign called "I Participate In Smoke Free Places" with a large outdoor event that will be attended by thousands of citizens, senior government officials such as the Vice-Mayor of Tianjin, representatives from the Tianjin Spiritual Civilization Office, Tianjin Municipal Health Bureau, and local media. Special exhibition panels and a selection of tobacco control ads will warn against the harms of second-hand smoke. In Yunnan province, WLF and Yunnan Health Education Institute are launching a campaign with two TV and mobile media ads and 30,000 posters that graphically depict the personal harms of smoking. A TV ad called "Giving Cigarettes Is Giving Harm," which addresses the cultural behavior of giving cigarettes as gifts, an ad called "Sponge, which graphically depicts how human lungs absorb cigarette tar, will air on regional TV. Print and mobile versions of "Sponge" will be shown on posters and LED screens on local buses WLF is also working with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the World Health Organization in India on the launch of a national TV and radio advertising campaign using the "Sponge" concept. Versions of the ad will air in five languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Tamil. In New Delhi, WLF is organizing a petition campaign and a citizen march in partnership with Beopar Mandal, Karol Bagh and the Delhi Hotels and Restaurants Association. The march will culminate in a street performance that depicts the harmful effects of tobacco. In Russia, WLF will be presenting on mass media strategies at the 2nd All Russian Forum "Health or Tobacco" in Moscow and the 5th All Russian Conference "Doctors against Tobacco" in Yaroslavl. WLF has been running regional campaigns in Samara, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia this month. WLF also developed an online video for the World Health Organization that counters the tobacco industry"s assertion that cigarettes are cool. The video, called "Show Truth," advocates for warnings on cigarette packs that use graphic images to show the harms of smoking. This year"s theme for World No Tobacco Day is "Tobacco Health Warnings." "World No Tobacco Day is a moment to highlight the global tobacco epidemic to policy makers, the health community and citizens around the world," said Peter Baldini, Chief Executive Officer, World Lung Foundation. "WLF emphasizes such communication through strong, visceral images that show what tobacco really does to people." Tobacco use is the leading preventable agent of death in the world today, and is responsible for more than five million deaths each year - one in ten adults worldwide. Within 25 years the death toll from tobacco will climb to more than eight million people per year, and it is estimated that half of all people who smoke today will eventually be killed by the direct or indirect effects of tobacco. World Lung Foundation


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