(1) U.S. National Cancer Institute (2008). Monograph 19: www.cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/19/index.html. (2) Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control (2007).
www.socialclimate.org/pdf/smoking-attitudes-movies.pdf. Learn more at www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu | UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education
The national cancer institute1 concluded:
Having confirmed movies’ causal role in recruiting
||a new generation of smokers, our nation can score a
major victory against tobacco and protect countless [...]

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Taken from the April Issue of the Joint Commission’s Newsletter

Joint Commission Alert: Prevent pediatric medication errors
Medications specifically made for adults and administered to children in health care facilities are putting young patients at greater risk for drug errors, according to a Joint Commission alert issued to improve pediatric safety. The Joint Commission’s latest Sentinel [...]

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The National Library of Medicine has a freely accessible database of drugs in lactation called LactMed.
You can search LactMed using either the common name or the medical name. For example, when I type in “Paxil” the first result I get is for “Paroxetine.”
A search will result in a summary of whether or not [...]

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