02Jan/14

Levying heavy taxes key to quit smoking Study – Jagran Post

January 2, 2014Lungadmin

Levying heavy taxes key to quit smoking Study
Jagran Post
Levying heavy taxes key to quit smoking: Study. quick bites. Toronto: To reduce smoking in middle-income countries like India, where the cheapest cigarettes are relatively affordable and where smoking rates continue to rise, heavy taxes is the only way …
Tobacco tax hike urgedRegina Leader-Post
Trebling tobacco tax ‘could prevent 200 million early deaths’Zee News
St. Mike’s study finds tripling tobacco tax worldwide could cut smokers by a thirdToronto Star
Business Standard
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02Jan/14

Carthage doc came from India to pioneer lung programs here – Carthage Press

January 2, 2014Lungadmin

Carthage doc came from India to pioneer lung programs here
Carthage Press
It’s been a busy 2013 for Carthage Dr. Sitaraman Subramanian. The specialist in internal medicine and pulminary diseases has continued his own practice and won Mercy McCune-Brooks Hospital’s Humanitarian of the Year award, all while battling his own …

02Jan/14

Taste of the Orient: Diverse Asian restaurants star in Region – nwitimes.com

January 2, 2014Lungadmin

Taste of the Orient: Diverse Asian restaurants star in Region
nwitimes.com
“Lung Wah in Hammond for Singapore Chow Mei. Yum.” – Mar Miles. • “Happy Wok in … Asian restaurants in the Region star a rich melting pot of cuisines from Thai and Chinese to Japanese, Indian and other ethnic eateries. Everyone from meat lovers, …

01Jan/14

NZ beats West Indies by 159 runs in 3rd ODI – indiatvnews.com

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

indiatvnews.comNZ beats West Indies by 159 runs in 3rd ODIindiatvnews.comHe employed his own psychologist who traveled with him, including to his stints in the Indian Premier League, abut during his international absence he tested positive to a banned …

01Jan/14

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approves – pharmabiz.com

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approves
pharmabiz.com
The government has taken the right steps to enhance the state of cancer care in India, Dr Kshitish Chandra Mishra, radiotherapy, High – Tech Medical College and Hospital, Bhubaneshwar told Pharmabiz in an email interaction. Access to cancer detection …

01Jan/14

Higher tobacco taxes could cut smoking rate by a third: study – Toronto Star

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

Toronto Star

Higher tobacco taxes could cut smoking rate by a third: study
Toronto Star
A study headed by St. Michael’s Hospital’s Centre for Global Health Research, published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that tripling tobacco taxes around the world could reduce the number of smokers by 433 million people and …
Death and taxesCanada.com
Tripling tobacco taxes to prevent 200 million premature deathsCancer Research UK
Tripling tobacco taxes worldwide would avoid 200 million tobacco deaths, study …Medical Xpress

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01Jan/14

The World's 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies – Gizmodo India

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

The World’s 19 Weirdest Hangover Remedies
Gizmodo India
Not to be outdone by their canary-eating contemporaries, the ancient Greeks treated their hangovers with a breakfast of sheep lungs and two owl eggs. Owl eggs, sure, I mean, eggs are pretty much eggs. But lungs are extremely rubbery (I tried some …

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01Jan/14

Doctors find betel nut in kid's clogged windpipe – Times of India

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

Doctors find betel nut in kid’s clogged windpipe
Times of India
AHMEDABAD: Hitesh Mali, 11, had been suffering from breathlessness for many months now. Diagnostic tests revealed that the child from Rajasthan had nearly 90% blockage in the windpipe going to his right lung. Surprisingly, when doctors tried to remove …

01Jan/14

AIIMS to Open Tobacco Cessation Clinic – The New Indian Express

January 1, 2014Lungadmin

The New Indian ExpressAIIMS to Open Tobacco Cessation ClinicThe New Indian ExpressAll India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar is set to start a Tobacco Cessation Clinic soon to help people to overcome the deadly addiction, that is the s…

31Dec/13

The Canadian Press looks back at what made news in 2013 – Macleans.ca

December 31, 2013Lungadmin

Macleans.caThe Canadian Press looks back at what made news in 2013Macleans.ca16: Regulators in the U.S., Japan, India and Europe temporarily grounded and ordered a safety review of all Boeing 787 Dreamliners after a series of problems with the lithium-…

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