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...
Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States (1). One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to This report summarizes the results of...
Secondhand tobacco smoke kills at least 3600 people a year in the UK, according to a new study, including the death of one pub or bar worker every week. Konrad Jamrozik at Imperial College, London, UK, says exposure to secondhand smoke in all workpl...
The Wakayama prefectural board of education recently distributed a brochure to all third- and fourth-year primary school students explaining the ill effects of smoking. The move is unusual in that the education ministry's curriculum guidelines stipu...
The World Health Organization (WHO) launches this year's campaign for World No Tobacco Day with the slogan: Tobacco and Poverty: a vicious circle, stressing the enormous economic costs of tobacco use and cultivation to families, communities and coun...
It seems that teenagers immediately start smoking more if anti-smoking campaigns are cut down. According to a new report, American state cut backs on anti-smoking campaigns are having an immediate effect on teen smoking - it is going up.Minnesota's...
A recent investigation found that some drinkers in London pubs absorbed nicotine and other dangerous chemicals equivalent to smoking one cigarette every three hours. Over the course of a year, the laboratory results from our sample mean the average...
A new analysis of data on smoking and health finds that smokers who quit before the age of 35 have a reasonable chance to regain their health over time and to live as long and as well as people who have never smoked. The Duke University Medical Cent...
Just six days before Norway's ban on smoking the government has issued posters that read 'Welcome to Norway. The only thing we smoke here is salmon'. The posters are part of a new anti-tobacco campaign launched by the Norwegian Ministry of Health be...
Public health experts act to bypass fortress-like Guildford Depository and expose tobacco giant's secrets to proper public scrutiny. A highly confidential project which will improve public access to millions of pages of sensitive and potentially inc...
A new study will be underway which will try out the effectiveness of a quit-smoking model that deals with the challenges teenage smokers face. It will be carried out by researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (USA). The study will t...
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...
