Cigarettes found to be low tar using this test can yield seven times more nicotine when smoked with 50 ml puffs every 30 seconds. Actually supplying condoms is a more effective way of ensuring they are used than is providing promotional information, according to the results of a randomised trial in Nicaragua. Researchers posted bottles of powerful sunblock to the parents of white children, while control families got nothing. After three years, the children in the intervention group had significantly fewer acquired naevi than controls, suggesting they had successfully reduced their dose of solar radiation and, by implication, their later risk of skin cancer. Skin biopsy of a pigmented lesion is one of the commonest specimens that the jobbing histopathologist must face.
Male drivers lodged in congested traffic have new cause for misery.
The finding helps to explain previous studies which found that occupational drivers take longer to conceive. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of sudden death in young adults, but assessment of this risk has until now been problematic. Apart from family history, the only recognised risk factors for sudden death are ventricular tachycardia or a previous cardiac arrest, which really means that the only reliable risk factor for sudden death is sudden death. A whole profession, namely health visiting, has grown up based on the belief that interventions to improve parenting are effective, but there has been little formal evaluation in Britain. Something of the hope that two newlyweds must have in the future pervades the emotional tenor of each encounter, and the relationship must be consensual and negotiable and both parties should gain in the course of their encounters.