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NEJM Fails to Correct Data on Children’s E-Cigarette Use
by Brad Rodu April 15, 2014The New England Journal of Medicine and authors of a commentary on e-cigarette use have ignored our call for correction of a substantial error regarding e-cigarette use among American schoolchildren in 2011 and 2012. Authors Amy L. Fairchild, Ronald Bayer and James Colgrove of Columbia University double-counted some users in a figure they used to illustrate data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS).
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VID: Greg Gutfeld’s EPIC Rant about NYC Ban on E-Cigarettes
by Jim Lakely December 20, 2013Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.
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Health Care
Chicago’s NBC Affiliate Covers Key CDC Hearing for Meningitis Vaccine
by Jim Lakely July 23, 2011Heartland’s Kendall Antikeier mentioned our efforts to bring the public’s attention to the Centers for Disease Control’s seeming reluctance to recommend — after the FDA has done so — a…
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Heartland releases new Infant Meningitis Vaccine Policy Tip Sheet! Today in Shoreline, Washington, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and The…