Tobacco policy and communications expert Jim Thrasher believes the decision goes well beyond the individual. In a new $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the health promotion, education, and behavior professor will investigate how social influences – particularly those through social media – impact teens’ decisions to smoke and use e-cigarettes.

The American Heart Association and Chicago Bears provided Hands-Only CPR education at high school girls’ flag football championship to improve cardiac emergency outcomes

What is the “most Canadian” animal? Spoiler: it’s not the beaver, or the moose.
 
Published today in the journal The Canadian Field-Naturalist, the study from a team of Simon Fraser University researchers ranks, for the first time ever, species of terrestrial vertebrates in Canada by their level of Canadian evolutionary distinctness: the amount of time animals have evolved independently from other Canadian species.
 
High ranked species have no close national relatives and can embody up to a hundred million years of evolution shared with none other in the country.
 
The study found that, overall, amphibians and reptiles are Canada’s most evolutionarily distinct species, with Apalone spinifera – better known as the spiny softshell turtle – being the most evolutionary distinct terrestrial animal in the land.

About The Study: This overview identifies research gaps and methodological challenges that need to be addressed to guide intervention strategies and future policy relevant to youth and suicide risk. 

A new commentary found that power plants’ use of these devices saved up to 9,100 lives and up to $100 billion in health costs in 2023. These estimates reveal the substantial health benefits that could be at stake if the next presidential administration implements policies that aim to weaken the Clean Air Act and limit the regulatory authority of the EPA. The commentary was written by researchers at Boston University School of Public Health, the Sierra Club, the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.