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Menthol cigarettes may increase stroke risk study says

WASHINGTON DC WUSA Menthol cigarette smokers are more likely to have a history of stroke than smokers who prefer other types of cigarettes according to a new study published in the April 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine Researchers found that menthol cigarette smokers were more than twice as likely to have a stroke than nonmenthol smoke... Read More

Write all prescriptions in capital letters Mumbai citizens tell doctors

MUMBAI It turns out that all those jokes about doctors scrawl are not funny at all Doctors illegible handwriting causes 7000 deaths in the US every year and another 15 million Americans report minor adverse reactionsbe it diarrhoea or rashesor even death Now a movement has begun in Mumbai asking the medical fraternity to write prescriptions i... Read More