June 12, 2009 Senate Approves Tight Regulation Over Cigarettes

By DUFF WILSON

WASHINGTON - More than four decades after the surgeon general declared smoking a health hazard, the Senate on Thursday cleared the final hurdle to empowering federal officials to regulate cigarettes and other forms of tobacco for the first time.

The legislation, ( Read more... )

FREE FLU SHOTS OUTSIDE PNC PARK
BEFORE PIRATES GAME SEPT. 8

Clinic to Offer 1,000 Doses of Vaccine for Seasonal Influenza

The Allegheny County Health Department and County Immunization Coalition are teaming up with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to provide free flu shots outside PNC Park, ( Read more... )

I am reluctant, but am going to force myself to get out of the house tonight and go to ballroom dancing at Carnegie Mellon University.  It's still tough doing things in public places, especially in close contact with other people. I guess as much is to be expected at this point. But, the only way to get back to normal life is to keep on doing it! ( Read more... )

Has anyone else been having issues with their LJ comment notifications ( Read more... )

Again... I am frustrated, really really frustrated, by my inability to think or write as easily and clearly as before I got sick. Hypoxia? Too many harsh drugs in my system? Regardless of cause, I'm having a hard time reading articles and retaining the information. This makes trying to catch up on incomplete classwork difficult, and thinking about ( Read more... )

Two relevant excerpts from my health policy class reading this week:

"Self-awareness extends to a person's understanding of bis or her values and goals. Someone who is highly self-aware knows where he is beaded and wby; so, for example, he will be able to be firm in turning down a job offer that is tempting financially but does not fit with his ( Read more... )

Ive been in the hosital since an emergency visit on thursday. I had surgery wth a bad recoveryperiod. and it looks like i'm having a second surgery done sometime today hopefully with an easier recovery time. The whole thing has been unpleasent medically, yet I'm being treated well and with a lot of kindness b=vy everyonme.I'm extremely thankful for ( Read more... )

Omg, this crazy scottish woman is amazing and inspiring.

She posts great dog training videos of her dogs.

This one cracks me up! I was holding my sides laughing.

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Ok, seriously, today our ER was full of perfectly NOT-SICK people with no flu symptoms whatsoever, who all were convinced that they were infected with swine flu. All of them. And, then they all wanted to  know what the calfeteria was serving for lunch/dinner....

On my next shift i'm going to bring in "Happy Swine Flu Day (again...)" cupcakes with ( Read more... )

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