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Ad Calls for Smoke-Free Restaurants, Bars and Workplaces Statewide AUSTIN, Texas, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As a Texas House committee prepares to consider comprehensive smoke-free workplace legislation this week, a coalition of public health organizations is launching a radio advertising campaign urging the Legislature to approve a smoke-free law that protects all Texans from harmful secondhand smoke. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) The radio...
Traditional ceiling fan technology teams up with ultraviolet-C light energy for 99% germ reduction CLEVELAND, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Haledyne announced today the introduction of the Healthy Fan, which improves the indoor environment of a home by killing more than 99 percent of airborne germs. The Healthy Fan maximizes air circulation by utilizing traditional ceiling fan technology in combination with a mounted air purifying medallion. It uses Ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light energy to...
New research in AIP's journal Chaos reveals sleep cycles in early fetusAfter about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting state of non-REM sleep. But whether the brains of younger, immature fetuses cycle with sleep or are simply inactive has remained a mystery, until now.Mathematician Karin Schwab and a team of neuroscientists at...
More than half of non-smoking New Yorkers have elevated levels of cotinine in their blood "“ meaning that they were recently exposed to toxic second-hand smoke in concentrations high enough to leave residues in the body. Cotinine, a by-product of nicotine breakdown, is not harmful itself but signals exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. A Health Department study, published online this week in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research, shows that 57% of adult New Yorkers (2.5 million)...
In a major study on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), German researchers believe they may have found several previously unrecognized risk factors for the disease, such as sleeping away from home and sleeping outside of the parent's bedroom.Dr. Mechtid M. Vennemann of the University of Munster explained in a recent medical journal article that various studies in the 1980's and 1990's revealed that sleeping face down presents a significantly increased risk of SIDS. Following these...
Australian researchers say babies born to a mother who smokes are more likely to be slower to wake and this may explain sudden infant death syndrome. Rosemary Horne and doctoral student Heidi Richardson of Monash University compared babies of mothers who smoked both during the pregnancy and after the baby was born with babies who lived in a smoke-free environment. Horne said the study suggested that maternal smoking can impair a baby's ability to respond to external stimuli, which may...
Monash University researchers have shown that babies born to a mother who smokes are more likely to be slower to wake or respond to stimulation "“ and this may explain their increased risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).Scientific director of the Ritchie Centre for Baby Health Research Associate Professor Rosemary Horne and PhD student Heidi Richardson compared babies of mothers who smoked both during the pregnancy and after the baby was born, with babies who lived in a smoke-free...
Indigenous children are more likely to get sick, hurt or die than other children in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, researchers say. Study leader Dr. Smylie at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, part of the Keenan Research Centre at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital found indigenous children suffered from infant mortality rates up to four times the national average, higher rates of sudden infant death syndrome, child injury,...
WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO) All South Dakota workplaces, including restaurants and bars, will be smoke-free beginning July 1, thanks to legislation approved by the Legislature last week and signed into law today by Governor Mike Rounds. Governor Rounds and the Legislature have delivered a historic victory for...
Call on Legislature to "See the light on smokefree air" INDIANAPOLIS, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders of Indiana's major faith denominations today joined the fight to reduce the devastating effects of tobacco-caused death and disease in Indiana by asking legislators to pass a comprehensive smokefree law that protects every Hoosier's right to breathe clean, smokefree air. Faith leaders will march to the State House and assemble candles into a super-size no-smoking symbol in an...
