Tag: nicotine patches

• Saturday, August 19th 2017 - 06:57 UTC

  Falklands' all health and social services sites Smoke Free as of February

  

  The Falkland Islands announced that all Health & Social Services sites are to be Smoke Free from 1st February 2018. Following on from the ban on smoking in any Government property, the Health & Social Services Department are going one step further by banning cigars, cigarettes and any vaping devices from all Health & Social Services sites, starting from the 1st February 2018.

• Monday, March 10th 2014 - 05:57 UTC

  Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan biochemist developer of the birth control pill, dies at 91

  

  The following is an obituary published in The New York Times to honor a Uruguayan born scientist, graduated in Montevideo's Medicine School, who in his long career in the US is credited with having developed the birth control pill and the nicotine patches among other biotechnological advances.