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Adolescent use of e-cigarettes triples in the US

The US Surgeon General recently issued a report that adolescents' use of electronic cigarettes has more than tripled since 2011. As recently as 2010, e-cigarettes...

Deaths by chronic illness increasing in Africa – WHO

City life and its modern trappings have brought bad habits to developing African nations that will see more die of chronic illness than infectious...

Over 1m Russians are HIV+ but little being done

Quietly, the number of Russians who have received a positive HIV diagnosis passed the 1m mark in 2016, The New York Times reports. However, that there...