The drop in calls from casinos was similar to drops in ambulance calls from elsewhere two years earlier when Colorado banned smoking everywhere but casinos. How did the smoking ban lead to a reduction in ambulance calls? Partially by eliminating exposure to secondhand smoke, said Stanton Glantz, PhD, the study's lead author.
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GEMS remains focused on bringing health within your reach. This is why our members have trusted GEMS to take care of their healthcare needs. Here are some of their stories.
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Migraine sufferers are more likely than other people to have an incomplete network of arteries that supply blood to the brain, researchers have found. It was once believed that migraines were caused by dilation of blood vessels in the brain, while more recently it has been attributed to abnormal brain signal activity.
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Researchers have found a common inherited genetic overlap in five mental disorders - which is highest between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (15%), moderate between bipolar disorder and depression and between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression (about 10%), and lowest between schizophrenia and autism (3%).
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South African GPs and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) are being offered free training to help patients quit smoking and excessive drinking, improve their diets and exercise more as part of a new nationwide programme to stem the tide of chronic lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.
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We are a nation of fat women, chubby kids and smokers who pretend they are not. These are some of the findings of the first-ever SA National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (SAHANES) for 2012 released yesterday. The survey involved a representative sample of over 25 000 South Africans countrywide, and was conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council and the Medical Research Council (MRC).
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South Africa showed a 63% decline in new HIV infections among children in 2012, UNAIDS has said. "South Africa has shown tremendous progress in reducing the numbers of children and women acquiring HIV infection and in providing access to HIV treatment to both groups," UNAIDS said in a report.
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