Latest study tagged ‘medicine’
Finance, Health - Friday, October 16, 2009 15:39 - 0 Comments
Smoking bans and heart-attack rates
A 2009 study by the Institute of Medicine, Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects, has determined that the health benefits of smoking bans are both immediate and significant. Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the report looked at 11 U.S. and European studies on the health effects of smoking bans.
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- Realistic costs of carbon capture
- Effects of charter schools on achievement, attainment, integration, and competition
- The cost of carbon cap and trade
- Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse?
- Ethanol: Law, economics, and politics
- Global potential for wind-generated electricity
- Health insurance and mortality in U.S. adults
- Genetically engineered seeds and crop yields
- The effects of raising the minimum wage
- Stabilizing and then reducing U.S. energy consumption
- Comparing the cell phone driver and drunk driver
- Red-light cameras for the prevention of road traffic crashes
- Copyediting for reporters
- Public policies to alter use of alternative financial services
- Trees and property values
- Bankruptcy or bailouts?
- Transportation policy tools