Appalachian Teen Smokers: Not On Tobacco 15 Months Later

Opportunity, community, and teen pregnancy in an Appalachian state.

This study examines female adolescents' responses to opportunities, costs, and community in West Virginia. It is posited that adolescent women's responses to structurally determined contextual factors will be the most important determinant of the teen birth rate. It is posited that girls avoid becoming pregnant and work to stay in school as a wise investment in their future. The variation in...

Medical professionalism in the new millennium: a physician charter 15 months later.

As we mark the 15-month anniversary of the physician charter that was published simultaneously in Annals of Internal Medicine and The Lancet in 2002 (1, 2), the members of the Medical Professionalism Project are pleased by the level of interest and activity the charter has engendered. Several hundred U.S. and international newspapers cited the charter in related stories; more than 70 radio, tel...

Renal homotransplantation: 20 to 36 months later.

FRobr November 1962 to March 1964, 64 uremic patients were treated with renal homoirafts obtained lrom living volunteer donors. The surgical m d non-operative techniques used to treat these patients were adapted from the pioneering methods described in thiscountry by Hume,' Murray, Merrill and Harrison.? and Goodwin7--and in Europe by Calne: Kiiss,Wamburger6 and Woodr~ff.~ Thirty-seven, or 58 p...

“Smokers Need Not Apply:” A Legal and Ethical Defense of a Policy on Not Hiring Smokers

“Smokers Need Not Apply:” A Legal and Ethical Defense of a Policy on Not Hiring Smokers Editor’s Note: Over the past five years, an increasing number of health care organizations have adopted and continue to adopt no-smoker rules that result in turning away job applicants who smoke. Several Catholic health care systems and facilities are among them. The reason for instituting such policies is t...

A hard road: finding ways to reduce teen tobacco use.