Emissions program shifts to high gear
SignOn San Diego - One truck at a time, San Diego County air pollution officials are trying to cut the smog-forming particles spewed by old Mexican big rigs that cross the international border. By installing pollution-control devices on these vehicles at no cost to the
Death linked to meth exposure
Coloradoan - A 12-year-old Loveland girl died of heart failure consistent with that seen in patients known to be exposed to methamphetamine, the Larimer County Coroner’s Office has ruled. In a report issued late Wednesday, Dr. Michael Arnall, forensic pathologist
Walter Reed refines, expands tobacco cessation program
Stripe - Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death among Americans, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in 2004. Long-time tobacco users who encounter health problems from tobacco use
A new ‘cloud’ for ABC News
SignOn San Diego - ABC News has been forced to drastically scale back an ambitious initiative to provide a customized broadcast of World News Tonight for the West Coast because executives have not been able to settle on who should join Elizabeth Vargas on the
Your views: Ban smoking in public buildings
La Crosse Tribune - Nonsmokers inhale thousands of chemicals from environmental tobacco smoke, killing thousands of Americans. An estimated 35,000 of these deaths are from heart disease and about 15,000 are from lung cancer. This means that environmental tobacco smoke