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Liquid used in e-cigarettes damages cells crucial for a healthy heart - EHN
▻https://www.ehn.org/vaping-hurts-your-heart-2638041485.html

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The flavors used in e-cigarettes—especially menthol and cinnamon—damage blood vessel cells and such impacts increase heart disease risk, according to a new study.

The study, published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, is the latest to link e-cigarettes, or vaping — which has been touted as a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes—to heart problems. It is the first study to test how e-liquids affect the endothelial cells that line the interior of blood vessels. These cells are crucial in delivering the blood supply to the bodies’ tissues and sending cells to promote healthy blood vessels, tissue growth and repair.

E-cigarettes are small devices that heat up liquids (usually propylene glycol or glycerol) to deliver as aerosol (vape) mixture of nicotine and flavors.

The study comes as e-cigarette use continues to rise. Roughly 1 in 20 U.S. adults now use e-cigarettes but the real growth is happening among youth: use among U.S. high school students went from 11.7 percent in 2017 to 20.8 percent in 2018, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In addition, about 4.9 percent of middle school students use e-cigarettes, the FDA found.

The study was limited in that the e-liquids weren’t heated, which could alter how the exposed cells react. The research, however, is just the latest linking e-cigarettes to heart impacts.

In March, researchers presented a study of nearly 100,000 Americans that found e-cigarette users are more likely to suffer heart attacks and strokes compared to non-users.

Another large national study in January of 400,000 Americans reported e-cigarette users have a 70 percent higher risk of stroke and a 60 percent higher risk of heart attack, when compared to non-users.

With use rising, health groups continue to push for more strict regulation. A judge this month ordered the FDA to review all U.S. e-cigarette products.

The ruling was a response to a federal lawsuit filed by health groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, that alleged the FDA hasn’t adequately regulated e-cigarettes and is leaving a generation of U.S kids on the path to nicotine addiction.

#Tabac #E_cigarettes #Vaping #Santé_publique

Shirley & Spinoza Radio
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▻http://compound-eye.org

Shirley & Spinoza Radio appears to be the work of one man - Fausto Caceres - as opposed to a child star and a 17th-century philosopher. The station, which you can stream via the internet, iTunes, Windows or Flash Player, has been on air in one form or another since the late 90s and has roots in the American college town of Berkeley. Now, somewhat exotically, it broadcasts from behind the Iron Firewall in the People’s Republic of China – in Urümqi in the western Xinjiang region.

Whenever I’ve tuned in – which has been most of the past week, apart from the football and a bit of Bacon – the same show has been on. Entitled Broken Bouncing Mixed Up Radio Waves, it’s a fantastic collage of pre-rock’n’roll swing, easy listening, 50s radio adverts, pulp sci-fi soundtracks, telephone static, old folk and country, cut’n’paste pop from interestingly named acts like Stock, Hausen and Walkman, plus, if one is fortunate, Moog cover versions of Bacharach and David tunes. Predicting what genre you’ll hear next is impossible.

Yes, there is much fromagerie and arty wibble, but also much beautiful vintage music that would never get airtime on regular radio such as Theremin pioneer Clara Rockmore, whose wonderful The Swan followed the Carter Family’s I Will Never Marry; two tracks that you would never expect to work together, but, thanks to Caceres’s excellent ear, flowed into each other seamlessly – an example of what he calls “live mixing” where he places songs and sounds on top of each other spontaneously and hopes for the best.

This oddball transmission from the edge of the planet deserves more listeners. A statistical widget on the site revealed that for much of my listening pleasure, I was one of just nine people tuning in - knowledge that made me feel both privileged and sad. Not that Caceres is without his fans - he was even the subject of a film about his other obsession - a secondhand photo album that contains letters from a schizophrenic man who believed he was being chased by the Mafia.

Sensibly, Caceres appears to have left his radio operation to run on automatic pilot these days – while he makes field recordings of traditional Chinese music – but an archive suggests there were once busier times at Shirley & Spinoza, especially at the weekends where regular shows included SpoooOOOooky (dedicated to horror film trailers), Old Timey Radio (vintage radio dramas) and Remote Operator, which mixed together “environmental recordings from life here in China, genuine China tunes, opera clips and cat solos”. All three can be downloaded from the site, the latter is highly recommended for anyone who likes the sound of Chinese airport ambience mixed together with a Japanese experimental banjo band called Satanicpornocultshop and a singing cat. You don’t get that on Magic. Well, not often.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/aug/24/station-to-station-shirley-and-spinoza

#radio #web_radio

The Scarcity of Abortion Training in America’s Medical Schools - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/learning-abortion-in-medical-school/395075

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that all medical schools offer opt-out abortion training, but the reality still lags behind the official guidelines. In a 2005 survey of U.S. medical schools in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, only 32 percent of respondents said they offer a formal lecture specifically about abortion as part of their OB-GYN rotation, and 23 percent reported “no formal education” about abortion at all. (Some schools that don’t have classes about abortion specifically may address the subject in classes on ethics or contraception.) In the same survey, 55 percent of medical schools reported that they offered students no clinical exposure to abortion.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine, for example, banned abortions at its facilities in the 1970s (except those performed to save the life of the mother) as part of an agreement with the state legislature that authorized $5.5 million to renovate the university’s football stadium. The state Supreme Court upheld the decision in 1976, and elective abortions in public university-affiliated hospitals are still illegal in Arizona. (Several other states, including Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas, also have laws in place that restrict or ban abortions in publicly funded institutions, including state universities.) How can future physicians decide they want to provide abortions if they’ve never seen one?

#avortement #enseignement #femmes #santé

Examen : le toucher vaginal de routine s’avère inutile - Pourquoi Docteur ?
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Un examen qui fait partie de la routine des femmes est remis en question. Ce 1e juillet, dans Annals of Internal Medicine, l’American College of Physicians (ACP) met à jour ses recommandations concernant l’examen vaginal de routine… et se prononce contre. Leur revue de la littérature conclut à l’inutilité d’une telle pratique lorsque la femme ne manifeste aucun symptôme.

La méta-analyse
Annals of Internal Medicine | Screening Pelvic Examinations in Asymptomatic, Average-Risk Adult Women: An Evidence Report for a Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of PhysiciansScreening Pelvic Examinations
▻http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1884533

Study Selection: 52 English-language studies, 32 of which included primary data.
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Conclusion: No data supporting the use of pelvic examination in asymptomatic, average-risk women were found. Low-quality data suggest that pelvic examinations may cause pain, discomfort, fear, anxiety, or embarrassment in about 30% of women.

Les directives
Annals of Internal Medicine | Screening Pelvic Examination in Adult Women: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of PhysiciansScreening Pelvic Examination in Adult Women
▻http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1884537

ACP recommends against performing screening pelvic examination in asymptomatic, nonpregnant, adult women (strong recommendation, moderate-quality evidence).

Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience? | danah boyd
▻http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130301160528-79695780-is-facebook-destroying-the-american-college-experi

When less privileged youth get to know children of powerful families, new pathways of opportunity and tolerance are created. But when youth use Facebook to maintain existing insular networks, the potential for increased structural inequity is great.

#réseaux_sociaux #ségrégation via @hlc

Study Links Food Allergies To Pesticides In Tap Water | TIME.com
►http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/03/study-links-food-allergies-to-pesticides-in-tap-water

Over the past 20 years, the number of people allergic to milk, eggs, wheat nuts and shellfish has soared, jumping by 18% between 1997 and 2007, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But why?

A team of researchers reporting in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), decided to look at whether that rise in food sensitivities could be related to another growing trend during that time period — the use of environmental pesticides and purifying chemicals.

#allergie #chimie #eau #santé #environnement #alimentation