An experimental wonder drug, Rimonabant, helps you lose weight, quit smoking and it also helps protect your heart.
Trials have shown that 33% of people on ...
Press release date: Monday, 05 Apr 2004 (BMA London)
Commenting on the two papers in BMJ online first today about passive smoking*, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, Head of BMA Science and Ethics, made the following statement:
"The evidence shows...
Research has indicated that women smokers have more difficulty quitting and maintaining abstinence from cigarettes than men. Several factors may contribute to gender differences in smoking cessation outcomes, including depression and fears of gai...
If you smoke and carry on smoking you are four times more likely to develop age-related macular degeneration when you are old - this makes you go blind.
A new study was carried out at Manchester University (UK). The researchers say that ci...
This quarterly report presents provisional results from the monitoring of the NHS Stop Smoking Services (formerly known as the smoking cessation services).
Of those clients who set a quit date during the period April to December 2003, 112,200...
When it comes to exercising and quitting smoking, men may be closer than women to adopting these healthy behaviors as permanent habits, according to a new study of 554 low-income minorities.
Men surveyed for the study were more likely than wom...
People who are naturally aggressive and hostile may have a genetic propensity to smoke and become addicted to cigarettes. This is according to research carried out in USA.
The team at the University of California Irvine said that the same ge...
The BMA (British Medical Association) is marking National No Smoking Day (10 March) by calling on the Government to ban smoking in all workplaces.
BMA Head of Science and Ethics, Dr Vivienne Nathanson, made the following statement:
'Eve...
New figures out today show that there is a continuing fall in the number of people in England who smoke.
The General Household Survey statistics show that smoking prevalence among adults aged 16 and over has dropped from 28% when 'Smoking K...
Adolescents who show a high level of aggression and hyperactivity may be at greater risk for smoking cigarettes than those who do not present these behavioral symptoms, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse's...
According to a survey carried out by the BBC, about three-quarters of the British population would like to see smoking banned in all public places.
In this survey 9,000 people were questioned. The survey formed part of a research programme...
According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, thermography shows grea...
A researcher in the Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute and Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center has found a way to identify which men need a second prostate ...
Boys aged 13 and 14 living in rural areas, are the most likely of their age group to access pornography, and parents need to be more aware of how to monitor their children's viewin...
Continuing with more than a decade of research, doctors at the University of Minnesota have discovered a treatment to help patients with advanced cases of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y ...
More US residents "will need government help" with health insurance, as employers shift more of the cost to employees and health care costs continue to increase ...
Four recently published opinion pieces examined health insurance and the various reform proposals being considered in Massachusetts. Summaries appear below.Char ...
The Maryland General Assembly on Thursday overrode Gov. Robert Ehrlich's (R) veto of a bill that will require employers with more than 10,000 workers in the sta ...
Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing. University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are now examining whet...
According to a new study published in the latest issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine and conducted in the Department of Psychology of McGill University, the...
Lawmakers in 30 states are preparing to introduce bills that would require large corporations to increase their spending on employee health insurance, the New Y...
