Archive: 30/11/2015
BBC reports BAT tobacco giant paid bribes in east Africa
British American Tobacco paid bribes to officials in east Africa, including two members of a convention created under the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat smoking, according to a BBC investigation airing on Monday.
Nov 30, 2015
Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care releases updated guideline
For adults aged 65 years or older living in the community, there is no benefit to screening for cognitive impairment if they are asymptomatic, according to a new Canadian guideline published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association ...
Nov 30, 2015
Vital statistics data can help fill gap about prescription opioid-related deaths
A new study indicates that Statistics Canada data could be used to estimate the number of prescription opioid-related deaths in Canada to aid in national surveillance of this important public health issue by provincial and ...
Nov 30, 2015
Shining light on microbial growth and death inside our guts
For the first time, scientists can accurately measure population growth rates of the microbes that live inside mammalian gastrointestinal tracts, according to a new method reported in Nature Communications by a team at the ...
Nov 30, 2015
Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adults associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease death
Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adults was associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death but it was not associated with the development of coronary artery calcification in a long-term study of a large ...
Nov 30, 2015