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11/15/2018 / By Ethan Huff

What can be done to address the number of suicides carried out with pesticides?

According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, roughly 45,000 Americans take their own lives every single year, making suicide the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. And recent research out of Denmark reveals that as many as 20 percent of these suicides – and in some parts of the world that […]

07/18/2018 / By Russel Davis

It’s working: Lung cancer rates have gone down in communities with strong smoking laws, study results reveal

Imposing strong smoke-free workplace laws may lead to a significant decline in lung cancer rates, according to a study published in the journal Cancer. A team of researchers at the University of Kentucky has examined how smoke-free laws affect lung cancer prevalence across the state as part of the study. Data show that Kentucky has more cases of lung […]

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