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  • Healthcare costs nosedive when smokers quit

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    By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) – When cigarette smokers quit, societal healthcare costs immediately plunge, a new study shows. If 10 percent of American smokers gave up cigarettes and the rest cut back by 10 percent, the U.S. could shave $63 billion off medical costs the next year, the analysis found. “You start to see…

  • Prostate cancer treated more aggressively in the city

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    By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Urban men with localized prostate cancer may be more likely to get surgery or radiation than their rural peers, a U.S. study suggests. Men had 23 percent higher odds of getting these aggressive treatments when they lived in densely populated U.S. counties than if they resided in rural counties,…