nursingisinmyblood
medicalelephant
A mother’s 200-year-old gift to anatomy. “The woman in labor has no name. She must have had one at some point, but as bad luck would have it, she was hit and killed by a carriage as she walked in front of the San Carlos Royal College of Surgery, back in 18th-century Madrid. Nobody claimed the body, whose round belly contained a child about to be born. It was quite a windfall for the surgeons in training at the school, which was always short of corpses on which to learn anatomy.
nursingisinmyblood
onwardtoahealthytomorrow
Costly Cigarettes and Smoke-Free Homes
Researchers find both effectively reduce tobacco consumption among low-income smokers
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say high-priced cigarettes and smoke-free homes effectively reduce smoking behaviors among low-income individuals – a demographic in which tobacco use has remained comparatively high.
Writing in the October 17, 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, principal investigator John P. Pierce, PhD, professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director for population sciences at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, and colleagues found that expensive cigarettes – $4.50 or more per pack – were associated with lower consumption across all levels.
“Living in a state where the average price paid for cigarettes is low ($3.20 or less per pack) means that all smokers, regardless of income, will smoke a lot more than those who live in a state with higher prices,” said Pierce. “This is the case for those living below the federal poverty level as well as for the wealthy.”
When smokers agreed to a smoke-free home, not only were they more likely to reduce their smoking but, in addition, if they quit, they were less likely to relapse.
“Price is a deterrent to smoking,” said Pierce, “but successful quitting (90 or more days) was associated in this study only with a smoke-free home.”
nursingisinmyblood
scientificillustration
I finally rendered those views of the heart that I’d been meaning to get to.
So here you are, an anterior and a posterior view of the heart.
hychlorions
oh yeah update on my guitar neighbor since y'all were so interested in them: they moved to a building further from mine and now i don’t hear them playing their guitar anymore
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theonion
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