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An estimated 11 million smokers in the United States own a smartphone and increasingly they're turning to apps in an attempt to quit. But many of the most popular anti-smoking apps for iPhones or Androids lack some basic strategies that are known to help smokers quit, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
A key cell process that could cause damage to bile ducts and help explain some liver diseases has been identified by scientists.
Actual medical error reporting by doctors to hospitals seems to occur less than it should when compared to physicians' views on whether they should report such errors, University of Iowa researchers said in the Jan. 14 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Allergies and other environmental factors can make asthma harder to manage when the season changes to fall.
"Aid to the poorest countries is dropping because donors are becoming more 'risk averse,' according to a senior official from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development," The Guardian reports, noting that "OECD figures last week showed that official development assistance from rich countries fell by four percent in real terms last year, following a dip in 2011."
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