Tobacco companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes in stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students.

Stanford University Medical Center today announced the release of the Fall 2008 Community Benefits Summary for Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine.

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Laura Cinnamon of Lipman Hearne, Inc., +1-202-457-8100, lcinnamon@lipmanhearne.com, for The Medpedia Project Medical Community Unites Behind Extraordinary Global Effort Project Calls for Additional Qualified Editors SAN FRANCISCO,July 23/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The Medpedia Project today announced the formation of the world's largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medpedia.