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Study Finds High School Students Increasingly Use Hookahs, E-Cigarettes

Reuters (11/28, Doyle) reported a study published online Nov. 17 in the Journal of Adolescent Health suggests that Southern California high school students are increasingly using hookahs, e-cigarettes, and other alternative tobacco products, often at the same time. The study showed that around 10 percent of 11th and 12th graders used e-cigarettes or hookahs in the last 30 days.

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— “Hookah and e-cigarettes popular with high schoolers,” Kathryn Doyle, Reuters, November 27, 2015.

Alcohol Consumption Among Women On The Rise, Study Finds

HealthDay (11/25, Preidt) reported that new research from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) found that reported alcohol consumption in the previous 30 days among women rose from about “45 percent to more than 48 percent, while it fell among men, from slightly more than 57 percent to just over 56 percent.” The investigators analyzed data from 2002 to 2012 and found that “the average number of drinking days in the past month also increased among women, from 6.8 to 7.3 days, but fell among men, from 9.9 to 9.5 days.” The findings were published online Nov. 23 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

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— “Women starting to match men’s drinking habits,” Robert Preidt, HealthDay via CBS News, November 25, 2015.

Major Depression May Be Linked To Increased Risk Of CV Events In Black Patients

Medscape (11/27, Brauser) reports that a study suggests that “not only is major depression common in black patients, it’s also associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events.” The “analysis of more than 3000 participants from the Jackson Heart Study, which is comprised of black individuals from Jackson, Mississippi, showed that those with major depressive symptoms at baseline (22%) had almost twice the hazard of having a stroke or CHD up to 10 years later compared with those without depressive symptoms.”

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Report: VA Devoted Millions To ACA Outreach, “Few Resources” On Pending Applications.

The Washington Examiner (11/25) reports that officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs “spent millions of taxpayer dollars promoting the Affordable Care Act to veterans who didn’t even need the coverage, but have dedicated relatively few resources to helping veterans on the agency’s long waiting list get access to their benefits, internal documents show.” Internal reports obtained by the Washington Examiner show the VA spent $6.125 million on an outreach campaign for the ACA that ended last year. An August documents “indicates the VA sent 2.8 million Affordable Care Act ‘buddy’ letters in Aug. 2013.”

By comparison, in August of this year, “the VA sent just 10,000 letters warning combat veterans that their eligibility for health care benefits was about to expire.” According to the article, many veterans with pending applications for the VA system were never told they needed to turn in their discharge papers as proof of military service.

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— “VA spends millions promoting Obamacare, little cutting wait times,” Srah Westwood, Washington Examiner, November 24, 2015.

About One In Ten Kids As Young As Age Three May Have Suicidal Thoughts, Suggestive Behaviors

Medscape (11/25, Brooks) reports that approximately “one in 10 children as young as age three years may have suicidal thoughts or suggestive behaviors, and these linger into middle childhood for three of four children, particularly for those with depression or externalizing disorders,” according to the findings of a 306-child study published in the November issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and funded by the National Institutes of Health. An editorial accompanying the study observed that “the numbers of children who express suicidal thoughts and engage in these behaviors are ‘larger than we might have guessed.’”

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