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Shelly Fan, University of California, San Francisco
Tinkering with the brain's electrical field shows tantalizing promise for boosting memory, but it doesn't always work. A new study offers one reason why.
Smoking kills close to 440,000 people in the U.S. each year.
California Department of Health Services
While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here's how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.
A no smoking sign in London. Via Flickr.
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Smokefree laws save lives quickly, by preventing heart attacks. A recent study showed a drop in heart attack deaths by 12 percent, adding to a growing body of research on benefits of the laws.
Nancy Berglas, University of California, San Francisco and Jillian Eversole, University of California, San Francisco
Understanding where teens learn about sex and how that influences them can help us find ways to encourage healthy sexual behaviors, such as using condoms and birth control.
Californians are going to be seeing more messages like this because voters stood up to Big Tobacco and passed a $2 tobacco tax increase.
California Department of Health Services
Laurel Mellin, University of California, San Francisco
This election season has brought more anger and name-calling than any in recent history, and it has affected many of us. Here are some ways you can ward off some of the stress associated with it.
Tobacco companies are spending millions to stop a cigarette tax increase in California that public health officials say would save thousands of lives a year.
California Department of Health Services
California, the nation's single largest market for cigarettes, has one of the lowest taxes on them. A proposal to raise the tax by US$2 a pack could signal a sea change.
Precision public health can make a huge difference to people across Africa.
Albert González Farran, UNAMID
Precision public health has the potential to transform the global health sphere by ensuring that the right interventions are brought to the right people in the right places.
Seized counterfeit hydrocodone tablets.
Drug Enforcement Administration/Handout via Reuters
Three studies find higher rate of health issues for people who live near large or many fracked natural gas well sites.
California aggressively fights Big Tobacco usage in ads such as this, with funds voters allocated when they increased the tobacco tax by passing Proposition 99 in 1988. California Department of Public Health.
California Department of Public Health
California has one of the nation's lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
Public display in Montevideo, Uruguay, of the toxins found in tobacco.
REUTERS/Pablo la Rosa
Eric Crosbie, University of California, San Francisco and Stanton Glantz, University of California, San Francisco
Uruguay fights tobacco more strongly than many countries 100 times its size -- including the U.S. It recently won a battle against Philip Morris. Should others follow the example of this tiny nation?
Want help to lose weight? Train your brain.
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In South Africa, female sex workers go for HIV tests, receive counselling and use condoms – but don't access antiretroviral treatments. More options are now available and can change this.
Homeless in Los Angeles: Bernard Leatherhood (62) and Arthur Johnson (72).
Lucy Nicholson/Reuters
Margot Kushel, University of California, San Francisco
Field research in Oakland highlights a major issue that Americans have yet to face up to: how to deal with growing numbers of homeless older people in our streets.
Packets of synthetic cannabinoids illegally sold in New York City.
Sebastien Malo/Reuters
Synthetic cannabinoids – drugs that mimic the psychoactive effect of cannabis – have been linked to injuries and deaths. And when one is banned, another rises to take its place.
Don’t add sugar.
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Robert Lustig, University of California, San Francisco
Researchers have found that cutting sugar out of kids' diets can improve their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of metabolic health.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are supporting their daughter Shiloh’s decision to be called John.
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Carole Joffe, University of California, San Francisco
On the first day of the new Congress in January, anti-abortion legislators in the House introduced the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The bill would have banned abortions after 20 weeks, except…
Public Health Researcher, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco
