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 Rimon...
STATISTICS ON NHS STOP SMOKING SERVICES IN ENGLAND, APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 2003 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...
When combined with a popular smoking cessation medication, telephone-based counseling was more successful in helping smokers quit than individualized mailings, a new study has found. Overall, participants randomly assigned to the telephone program w...
Contact: Shelly Plutowski rplutowski@mayo.edu 507-284-5005 Mayo Clinic ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Women who were sexually abused as children are much more likely to be current smokers than women who weren't abused as children. That's a key finding of a pre...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was targeted by anti-tobacco groups last Saturday as they protested about his efforts to bring back smoking into California's meeting rooms. Arnold is converting the Capitol's interior courtyard into a 'smoking plaza'. A S...
Smoke free areas in pubs and clubs to not protect customers and workers from the effects of passive smoking, say Australian researchers. The air quality in 17 clubs were examined by Professor Bernard Stewart from Sydney's South-East Area Health Serv...
UK Health Secretary launches biggest consultation ever on public health Health Secretary seeks debate on how we can all live healthier lives HEALTH Secretary John Reid today unveiled details of a huge national consultation on how to improve the nati...
A new report in the UK has urged the UK government to consider taxes on fatty foods and a ban on smoking in public places as part of a radical disease prevention strategy. The report, commissioned by Chancellor Gordon Brown, comes from Derek Wanless...
Smoking appears to be the most important lifestyle risk factor for bone loss in older women, a new University of Melbourne twin study has found. While lifestyle factors, such as smoking, were previously known to affect bone mass, the relative import...
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. Cha ...
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...
Large majorities of those who were treated with therapy and with medication satisfied with their care - A national survey of the generaladult population and of ...
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...
