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Opportunities for tobacco control remain available, and it is becoming increasingly clear that smoking cessation models deserve high priority both in research and in any preventive health care system.
Recognition of the incidence, etiology, and risk factors of blood stream infection in patients with HIV infection can lead to preventive and therapeutic measures that may reduce the associated increased mortality and morbidity.
Steve Roberts reports that the tobacco agreement is being marketed as a protect-the-kids bill (PBS's Washington Week in Review ). This strikes Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ) as disgustingly hypocritical, because the original deal--accepted by the tobacco CEOs--contains the same underage smoking preventive measures as the Senate's.
Primary care physicians, by virtue of their position and function in healthcare, are key to the delivery of preventive care [ 1 ] . However, routine integration of primary prevention into practice has been sub-optimal, resulting in lost opportunities to decrease morbidity and mortality [ 2 ] . For example, though the Preventive Services Task Force [ 3 4 ] recommends that preventive services be a part of every medical visit, studies report a compliance rate of only 20% to 60% [ 5 6 7 ] .
2) Even if an employee does not suffer adverse job consequences for rejecting a supervisor's advances, the employer can be held liable unless a) the employer shows it "exercised reasonable care to prevent and correct promptly any sexually harassing behavior" and b) the employee "unreasonably failed to take advantage of any preventive or corrective opportunities."