Those of us interested in the health of Americans of all races write to support the FDA ban on menthol flavoring in tobacco products. Such a ban will potentially prevent thousands of deaths per year from cancer, lung disease, as well as cardiovascular disease.
Those of us concerned about health disparities agree that the time has come to ban menthol.
In the late 1980s, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company made plans to market a new brand of menthol cigarette, Uptown.
Philip Morris International’s call for a smoke-free world echoes cigarette makers’ past efforts to burnish their nicotine-stained image, but what if this time they’re serious?
As architects, we welcomed the challenge set forth by Emory Healthcare and the Emory Woodruff Health Sciences Center to build a new cancer care center for Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
On Jan. 11, 1964, at a packed press conference for over 200 reporters at the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC, Surgeon General Luther L. Terry released what would become one of the most important and most widely cited documents in the annals of medicine: “Smoking and Health—Report of the Advisory Committee of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service.”
Medicare has started to pay for navigation for guiding patients through the maze of health care services in settings where treatment involves multiple specialties.
Sidney Wolfe, a physician who co-founded the Health Research Group, and—as a pioneer of “research-based advocacy”—took pharmaceutical companies to task over bad drugs, often shaming federal regulators into changing policies for the benefit of patients, died Jan. 1 in Washington. He was 86.
In 1964, the Office of the Surgeon General issued a report on smoking and health that ended a debate that had raged for decades—stating that cigarettes cause lung cancer and other diseases.
On Dec. 21, 1973, Jerry D. Boyd ran the first printing of a little newsletter that would become The Cancer Letter.
