A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released on Thursday reveals that arthritis limits millions of working Americans' productivity, activity or ability to work. John H. Klippel, M.D., president and CEO of the Arthritis Foundation says, "Arthritis is the nation's most common cause of disability and limits activity for 19 million adults with the disease."

A previous CDC study shows in 2003 state-specific earning losses due to arthritis ranged from $78 million to $4.3 billion. That same year, the total cost of arthritis to the United States economy was $128 billion

According to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Preventing Chronic Disease found that health disparities especially smoking levels exist among people with disabilities. Smoking prevalence among people with disabilities is nearly 50 percent higher than among people without disabilities. The ratio is 29.9 percent vs. 19.8 percent. Researchers also noted that in 2004, smoking prevalence for people with disabilities was highest in Delaware (39.4 percent) and lowest in Puerto Rico (16.5 percent).

The study found that about 70 percent of people with disabilities who smoke and had visited a doctor in the last year had been advised to quit smoking. However, more than 40 percent of those advised to quit reported not being told about the types of tobacco-cessation treatment available

bout one in four disabled are smokers, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention reported Wednesday.

In the first national study to compare smoking rates between the two groups, researchers say that smoking is more prominent in people with disabilities

The incidence of heart attacks in New York dropped by at least eight percent with the implementation of a secondhand smoke law, a study by the state Health Department shows.

The report found that hospitals admitted 3,813 fewer patients for heart attacks in 2004 than would be expected in the Big Apple without the indoor smoking ban. This is consistent with the results of similar studies elsewhere

Dole has issued an international voluntary recall for their prepackaged lettuce salad Monday, after a sample taken from a store in Canada tested positive for E. coli.

A division of Dole Food Co. said the recall affects all packages of Dole's Hearts Delight salad mix sold in the United States and Canada with a "best if used by" date of September 19, 2007, and a production code of "A24924A" or "A24924B