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Tom Higgins is one of 200 people who've applied for a medical marijuana registry identification card since Monday.

She is popularly known as sitjifiri . Sylvia Khuzwayo travels across the Shiselweni region, in the southern part of the Kingdom of Swaziland, giving testimonials to communities on her experience of living with HIV.

If patients have any doubt whatsoever about the status of their health, the explanation given by their doctor for their symptoms, or the care they receive, they should not wait to get a second medical opinion. It literally can save their lives.

With economic damage expected to last months or years, anxiety, depression and stress are troubling people everywhere.

The 61.66 cent increase on the federal tax on cigarettes - a move hailed as a simple, highly effective way to improve health and save more than $44.5 billion in long-term future health-care costs - went into effect on March 31. . . .This is, pure and simple, excellent health-care policy. The price increase can reduce smoking rates by encouraging people to quit and keeping children from starting to smoke in the first place.In Wisconsin, the federal price increase will keep an estimated 33,500 children from smoking, encourage 16,000 adult smokers to quit, and prevent nearly 15,000 smoking deaths, according to federal estimates. It is also expected to save Wisconsin approximately $740 million in future health-care costs. . . .Smokers who want to quit can call the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-QUIT NOW for free coaching and a free two-week supply of lozenges, gum or patches.

They do not go to parks over the weekend or to the beach in summer. They do not receive gifts under the Christmas tree. They only see the sun behind the bars. Before 2006 (the year parliament granted a major pardon which decreased the number of prisoners), children up to three years of age living with their mothers in prison numbered about one hundred.

The deployment of military personnel to active war zones, which involves issues of separation, time away from home, and eventual reunion, increases the vulnerability of their families, The heavy reliance on National Guard and Reservists and the downsizing of traditional installations means that military families are increasingly likely to live in local communities rather than on military installations.

The bill will place tobacco under the authority of the FDA. However, writing in the New York Times, Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, worries that by persuading smokers that cigarettes are safer, they will encourage smokers to smoke more.She also points out that the bill gives the fda authority to reduce nicotine in cigarettes. As it is the smoking that does the damage and not the nicotine, and as smokers tend to draw more heavily when they smoke, this would only increase the damage done to smoker's health.'The so-called 'Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act,' concocted by one anti-tobacco group in cahoots with Altria, will actually lead to more deaths from smoking,' the doctor concludes.A further worry is that the new alternatives to smoking will be made illegal with little chance of reversing the ruling. . . .Dr Joel Nitzkin, Chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force for the American Association of Public Health Phys

HIV is a complex disease that requires specially trained physicians; HIV specialists to deliver the complex care necessary to live a long healthy life. What is the key to finding the right doctor? What is the key to finding an HIV specialist?