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Oil Spill Threatens Native American “Water” Village
Resource: National Geographic News “In the town of Grand Bayou, Lousiana, the main thoroughfare is the water. There are no streets, no cars. Everyone gets around by boat. Just recovered from Hurricane Katrina, the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon … Continue reading
Posted in Gulf Oil Spill & Health
Tagged Bayou, Deepwater Horizon, Environment, Grand Bayou, Man-Made Disaster, Oil, oil spill, United States
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Oil Spill Threatens Native American "Water" Village
Resource: National Geographic News “In the town of Grand Bayou, Lousiana, the main thoroughfare is the water. There are no streets, no cars. Everyone gets around by boat. Just recovered from Hurricane Katrina, the oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon … Continue reading
Posted in Gulf Oil Spill & Health
Tagged Bayou, Deepwater Horizon, Environment, Grand Bayou, Man-Made Disaster, Oil, oil spill, United States
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Well-done meat intake, heterocyclic amine exposure, and cancer risk.
Zheng W, Lee SA. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203-1738, USA. wei.zheng@vanderbilt.edu High intake of meat, particularly red and processed meat, has been associated with an increased risk of a number of common cancers such … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer Research
Tagged cancer, cancers, Carcinogens, Cooking, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Heterocyclic amines, Meat, Mutagen, Nashville, OAO, Oncology, Prostate cancer, Tennessee, tumors, United States, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, wei.zheng@vanderbilt.edu
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Secondhand Smoke: Questions and Answers
Resource: National Cancer Institute Key Points Secondhand smoke (also called environmental tobacco smoke) is the combination of smoke given off by the burning end of a tobacco product and the smoke exhaled by the smoker (see Question 1). Of … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer Research, Second Hand Smoke
Tagged airline flights, asthma, brain tumors, breast cancer, Bronchitis, cancer, cancers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, chemicals, Cigar, cough, ear infections, Federal law, France, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, Heart Disease, International Agency for Research, Ireland, leukemia, Lung cancer, lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, National Cancer Institute, New Zealand, Nicotine, nicotine by-product, Norway, Passive smoking, pneumonia, SIDS, Smoking, Sudden infant death syndrome, Surgeon General, Tobacco, tobacco product, tobacco products, Tobacco smoking, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Surgeon General, United States, Uruguay
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Confirmed – Secondhand Smoke Causes Heart Attacks
Resource: American Lung AssociationA new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence, has confirmed that exposure to secondhand smoke is a significant cause of heart attacks among nonsmokers. This report underscores … Continue reading
Posted in Cancer Research, Heart Disease, Secondhand smoke
Tagged American Lung Association, asthma, breakdown product, chemicals, Cigarettes, District of Columbia, Environment, Health/Medical/Pharmaceuticals, heart attacks, Heart Disease, Institute of Medicine, Lung cancer, Lung Disease, Lung diseases, Nicotine, Passive smoking, respiratory tract infections, Smoke, Smoking, Tobacco, U.S. Surgeon General, United States
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