The advent of electronic cigarettes and vaping products in the mid-2000s stirred hope among smokers of regular cigarettes that they had finally found their holy grail—a safe substitute for the object of their addiction. Soon, e-cigarettes were touted as an instrument to curb tobacco consumption, the No. 1 cause of lung cancer around the globe, and manufacturers capitalized on such imagined benefits in marketing the novel products to teens and young adults, with great success. Alas, science
This article has gone the rounds of different but prominent chat groups (MD alumni batches in QC, Marikina, Manila, and other areas), after the recent Senate hearing on the Doctors-Pharma collusion issue. The assessments of this anonymous doctor were widely shared in social media because it is reflective of a now divided medical community. Call for Unity Guilty until proven innocent - this seems to be the system now that even in the opening statement at the senate hearing - there is apparent implication of outright wrong doings rather than setting a tone of clarificatory hearing / inquiry. It is so disheartening to
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