Teens' Use of E-Cigarettes Doubles in a Year

Teens' Use of E-Cigarettes Doubles in a Year
5 (HealthDay News) — The use of electronic cigarettes — or e-cigarettes — by U.S. middle and high school students more than doubled from 2011 to 2012, federal health officials reported Thursday. And, rather than using electronic cigarettes as a …
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Hundreds of Thousands of Teens Use Pot, Alcohol Each Day: Report
29 (HealthDay News) — Despite recent gains against substance abuse by American teens, hundreds of thousands of them use marijuana and alcohol on a given day, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. On a typical day, an estimated 881,684 kids aged 12 …
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More Drugs Show Promise in Fighting Hepatitis C
The study, of 362 people with chronic hepatitis C, found that the new drugs — combined with one older drug — cleared the virus from up to 69 percent of patients. And that was without having to use interferon, a difficult-to-take injection drug that …
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