http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently. http://www.physorg.com/news177922617.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:02 EST news177922617 Many women don't quit smoking because they are afraid of gaining weight. That's because nicotine suppresses the appetite and boosts a smoker's metabolism. http://www.physorg.com/news177852188.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:02 EST news177852188 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online. http://www.physorg.com/news176738820.html Medicine & Health Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:30:01 EST news176738820 Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers participating in the same program who grasped a computer-simulated ball, according to a study described in the current issue of CyberPsychology and Behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news175870193.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:50:55 EST news175870193 The good, the bad and the ugly: That's a quick summary of the effects of dopamine, a natural brain chemical that's linked to pleasure, addiction and disease. http://www.physorg.com/news174154939.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:22:41 EST news174154939 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hooked on your cell phone and cigarettes? Fortunately, your mobile device could help you kick the nicotine habit, according to a new review from New Zealand. http://www.physorg.com/news174152658.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:45:59 EST news174152658 (PhysOrg.com) -- Immunization with an experimental anti-cocaine vaccine resulted in a substantial reduction in cocaine use in 38 percent of vaccinated patients in a clinical trial supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a component of the National Institutes of Health. The study, published in the October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, is the first successful, placebo-controlled demonstration of a vaccine against an illicit drug of abuse. http://www.physorg.com/news173978776.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:26:51 EST news173978776 By seeing what substances and molecules affect the development of our diseases, we can develop drugs that prevent or cure diseases. In her dissertation at Kalmar University in Sweden, Ann Novotny has found that the signal molecule acetylcholine (ACh) is important for the progress of cancer of the large intestine and colon, knowledge that is important to factor in when developing drugs that block the effects of Ach on tumor cells. http://www.physorg.com/news172915513.html Medicine & Health Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:30:02 EST news172915513 European scientists said Sunday they could explain why nicotine patches designed to help smokers kick their habit can cause skin irritation. http://www.physorg.com/news172073080.html Medicine & Health Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:20:01 EST news172073080 Researchers from the Catalan Institute of Oncology have studied the impact of the law banning smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants on those working in these places. The results are positive - 5% of waiters have stopped smoking, and the number of cigarettes smoked by those who still smoke has fallen by almost 9%. http://www.physorg.com/news171802414.html Medicine & Health Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:54:27 EST news171802414 New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 10th issue of the journal Neuron, helps to explain why and how drug-associated memories, such as the place of drug use, drive and perpetuate the addiction. http://www.physorg.com/news171723185.html Medicine & Health Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:20:02 EST news171723185 People who start nicotine replacement therapy at least four weeks before surgery can halve their risk of poor wound healing. This is what the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) concludes in information published on informedhealthonline.org today. http://www.physorg.com/news171203574.html Medicine & Health Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:40:03 EST news171203574 While smoking cigarettes appears to significantly increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis, using Swedish snuff does not, according to a study published in the September 1, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news170954792.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:40:06 EST news170954792 Nina Ball regularly walks by a row of smokers outside the charter school in North Philadelphia where she helps youths find jobs and get into college. A year ago, she might have bummed a cigarette there. http://www.physorg.com/news170257694.html Medicine & Health Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:52:19 EST news170257694 Attention all smokeless tobacco users! It's time to banish the comforting notion that snuff and chewing tobacco are safe because they don't burn and produce inhalable smoke like cigarettes. A study that looked beyond the well-researched tobacco hazards, nitrosamines and nicotine, has discovered a single pinch -- the amount in a portion -- of smokeless tobacco exposes the user to the same amount of another group of dangerous chemicals as the smoke of five cigarettes. http://www.physorg.com/news169644304.html Chemistry Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:40:01 EST news169644304 (PhysOrg.com) -- If your mother smoked during her pregnancy, you are more likely to be addicted to nicotine as a young adult. http://www.physorg.com/news168703041.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:30:03 EST news168703041 Smoking has once again been implicated in the development of advanced cancer. Exposure to nicotine by way of cigarette smoking may increase the likelihood that pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will become metastatic, according to researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson. Their study was published in the August edition of the journal Surgery. http://www.physorg.com/news167922110.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:30:02 EST news167922110 Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, shows that exposing rats to a context associated with eating chocolate activates a part of the brain's reward system known as the orexin system. This finding helps explain why eating can be triggered by environmental cues even in the absence of hunger. The results have implications for the development of new drug treatments for overeating. http://www.physorg.com/news167912905.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:30:02 EST news167912905 Secondhand smoke (SHS) is not only a nuisance, but a potential health concern for many college students, and administrators should be taking steps to reduce students' exposure, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news167375057.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:05:03 EST news167375057 Using a nicotine patch before quitting smoking can double success rates, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers. They say their latest data suggest changes should be made to nicotine patch labeling. http://www.physorg.com/news166363480.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:06:32 EST news166363480 (PhysOrg.com) -- Despite recent declines in cigarette use in the U.S., nicotine dependence has remained steady among adults and has actually increased among some groups. The finding by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that public health initiatives have been far more successful in preventing Americans from taking up smoking than in persuading hard-core smokers to stop. The study is available online in the American Journal of Public Health and will be published in the August 2009 issue. http://www.physorg.com/news165845935.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:19:05 EST news165845935 Despite recent declines in cigarette use in the U.S., nicotine dependence has remained steady among adults and has actually increased among some groups. The finding by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that public health initiatives have been far more successful in preventing Americans from taking up smoking than in persuading hard-core smokers to stop. The study is available online in the American Journal of Public Health and will be published in the August 2009 issue. http://www.physorg.com/news165064403.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:13:43 EST news165064403 (AP) -- Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he's spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation's toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked. http://www.physorg.com/news164877289.html Medicine & Health Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:43:16 EST news164877289 Researchers have discovered a reason why smoking greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke. Nicotine promotes insulin resistance, also called prediabetes, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, according to the new study. http://www.physorg.com/news163946959.html Medicine & Health Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:49:29 EST news163946959 A lung cancer treatment that inhibits nicotine receptors was shown to double survival time in mice, according to Italian researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news163677485.html Medicine & Health Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:58:37 EST news163677485 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has identified a specific class of pharmaceutical drugs that could be effective in treating babies vulnerable to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), because their mothers smoked during pregnancy. http://www.physorg.com/news163258116.html Medicine & Health Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:29:04 EST news163258116 Available evidence supports the use of online or other computer-based smoking cessation programs for helping adults quit smoking, according to a meta-analysis of previously published studies appearing in the May 25 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news162487363.html Medicine & Health Mon, 25 May 2009 16:23:16 EST news162487363 Morphine patches are supposed to reduce use of painkillers, and provide more control over their use in chronic pain conditions. But researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim have found otherwise. http://www.physorg.com/news161788928.html Medicine & Health Sun, 17 May 2009 14:24:12 EST news161788928 Higher concentrations of melanin -- the color pigment in skin and hair -- may be placing darker pigmented smokers at increased susceptibility to nicotine dependence and tobacco-related carcinogens than lighter skinned smokers, according to scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news161026957.html Medicine & Health Fri, 08 May 2009 18:43:08 EST news161026957 The calming neurological effects of nicotine have been demonstrated in a group of non-smokers during anger provocation. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Behavioral and Brain Functions suggest that nicotine may alter the activity of brain areas that are involved in the inhibition of negative emotions such as anger. http://www.physorg.com/news159774124.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:45:36 EST news159774124