Cell phones and cancer
The World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer met this week in Lyon, France to analyze health-risk data regarding the electromagnetic fields generated by cell phones. Their initial report was published this week, concluding that the chronic use of cell phones could be “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. The group didn’t do any primary research themselves; rather, they reviewed [...]
Arizonans are Kicking the Habit / World No Tobacco Day
Over 166,000 Arizonans kicked their tobacco habit in 2010. Our smoking rate now stands at only 13.5%. This news is exciting when you consider that many states have seen increases in tobacco use over the last couple of years. This brand-new data isn’t published yet, but our team thinks that this will put is neck-and-neck with Utah for the lowest [...]
AZ Medical Marijuana Program Update
In light of recent communication from the U.S. Attorney for Arizona, the Governor asked the Attorney General to file a suit this week asking for a declaratory judgment from a federal court regarding the legality of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act and our Rules. We had been planning to begin accepting dispensary applications beginning next Wednesday, June 1 (continuing through [...]
Limit the Sun, Not the Fun
Today is Don't Fry Day - a day established by the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention to remind people of the importance of sunscreen. In Arizona, we need more than a day - it is more of a season and now that school’s just about out (or is), kids have more time on their hands for outdoor fun. The [...]
Celebrating Women’s Health
With all the things that have been going on I somehow neglected to write about Women’s Health Week - which was a couple of weeks ago. The theme this year is “It’s Your Time” and serves to remind women to take time out to take care of themselves. Women in all parts of the world have primary influence on the [...]
Who is John Snow?
He’s a guy that’s often thought of as the founder of modern day epidemiology because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in England in the mid 1800s. At the time, scientists and the public believed that diseases like cholera were spread by “miasma”- basically that diseases like cholera were spread by pollution or “bad air”. [...]