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Healthcare students often uninformed about smoking dangers, cessation

By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – Nursing and physiotherapy students may be smoking less than they were a decade ago, but they also know less about the health consequences of tobacco and how to help patients quit the habit, a new study from Spain suggests. “The fact that less than 40 percent of students knew that smoking caused emphysema and only 10 percent identified smoking as a major cause of

Healthcare students often uninformed about smoking dangers, cessation

By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – Nursing and physiotherapy students may be smoking less than they were a decade ago, but they also know less about the health consequences of tobacco and how to help patients quit the habit, a new study from Spain suggests. “The fact that less than 40 percent of students knew that smoking caused emphysema and only 10 percent identified smoking as a major cause of

Healthcare students often uninformed about smoking dangers, cessation

By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – Nursing and physiotherapy students may be smoking less than they were a decade ago, but they also know less about the health consequences of tobacco and how to help patients quit the habit, a new study from Spain suggests. “The fact that less than 40 percent of students knew that smoking caused emphysema and only 10 percent identified smoking as a major cause of

Civilians in Yemen's Aden struggle to survive fighting, shortages: Red Cross

Lamon, a Swiss national, worked in Aden from January 2014 and stayed months into the Houthi military push on the city that prompted an Arab military intervention on March 26.     A Saudi-led coalition of Gulf Arab countries has been bombing the Iran-allied Houthis for three months to try to restore Yemen’s exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Saudi Arabia, determined to thwart any arms deliveries to the Houthis,

Civilians in Yemen's Aden struggle to survive fighting, shortages: Red Cross

Lamon, a Swiss national, worked in Aden from January 2014 and stayed months into the Houthi military push on the city that prompted an Arab military intervention on March 26.     A Saudi-led coalition of Gulf Arab countries has been bombing the Iran-allied Houthis for three months to try to restore Yemen’s exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Saudi Arabia, determined to thwart any arms deliveries to the Houthis,

Civilians in Yemen's Aden struggle to survive fighting, shortages: Red Cross

Lamon, a Swiss national, worked in Aden from January 2014 and stayed months into the Houthi military push on the city that prompted an Arab military intervention on March 26.     A Saudi-led coalition of Gulf Arab countries has been bombing the Iran-allied Houthis for three months to try to restore Yemen’s exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Saudi Arabia, determined to thwart any arms deliveries to the Houthis,