Teens’ initial response to nicotine crucial: study
Joseph DiFranza of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. While peer pressure and other factors may lead young people to try smoking, it is the brain's response to that first dose of nicotine that likely most determines who gets addicted
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Humanitarians up close
Nashville Tennessean - Each year, the independent, international medical humanitarian organization sends doctors, nurses, sanitation experts and other medical and nonmedical professionals on thousands of assignments to troubled parts of the world. They provide health care
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Wanted: MDs in Northshire
Bennington Banner - MANCHESTER The Northshire Medical Center is having difficulty recruiting a new doctor, and at least one candidate turned down the job because of the high cost of housing in the area. A letter to the Manchester Journal signed by Dr. Robert Schwartz
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