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Our daily digest of worrying stories from Amy Winehouse�s world includes the news that her tour manager quit after finding heroin in his system after he inhaled it passively on their tour bus. According to the Sun, Thom Stone produced a doctor�s note to prove he had traces of the drug in his system and that he wanted to leave the tour. A source told the paper: �He was watching them get off their heads on drugs and wondering whether Amy was even going to get up on stage. It was a nightmare job. �They (she and hubby Blake Fielder-Civil) didn�t get on with Thom and were taking the p*** when he tried to pull that excuse to leave. They wanted rid of him anyway.� The final straw reportedly came when Amy and her banged-up bloke where arrested in Norway with cannabis last month.
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Washington Adventist, Shady Grove Adventist, Suburban, Montgomery General, Holy Cross and Frederick Memorial are the latest in Maryland to enact a stricter ban. They join major companies such as Bethesda defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. and other hospitals including Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, where it is responsible for about 438,000 deaths annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 38,000 die because of secondhand smoke exposure, the agency says. Cigarette smoking costs more than $167 billion in lost employee productivity and medical expenses, according to the center. Health care costs related to secondhand smoke run about $10 billion annually.
Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout the Influenza Season
BETHESDA, Md. (Map) - BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- To raise awareness of the need to vaccinate more infants, children and adolescents against influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with Families Fighting Flu, declared today, November 27, as the first ever "Children's Flu Vaccination Day." The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition commends this effort to emphasize the importance of annual influenza vaccination to protect children and their contacts from this serious and potentially deadly virus. "Influenza claims more American lives every year than all other vaccine- preventable diseases combined," said Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Coalition Chair, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Experts Release New Asthma Care Guidelines
MONDAY, Nov. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Asthma control and prevention of attacks are the focus of new national asthma guidelines released by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP). The 23 million Americans -- including 6.5 million children -- with asthma can avoid serious symptoms and disability if they follow these latest guidelines to keep their asthma under control, said the experts who wrote the guidelines. "Asthma is not an event, it is a chronic disease that can be managed so that symptoms are controlled and severe attacks are prevented," Dr. Michael B. Foggs, chief of asthma, allergy and immunology at Advocate Health Care in Chicago, said in a prepared statement. "The guidelines underscore the fact that people who are diagnosed with asthma do not have to suffer breathing difficulties or cut back on their activities.
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