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How maternal smoking or nicotine use increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in later life

Scientists now understand more about why being exposed to nicotine while you were a fetus will increase your risk of developing cardiovascular disease as an adult. "We have found distinct links between cigarette smoking or ...

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Commonly used vitamin could help produce 'good' cholesterol, researchers find

(Medical Xpress) -- Maintaining healthy cholesterol levels can keep heart disease, heart attack and stroke away. And a commonly used vitamin could help by increasing production of “good” cholesterol in the body, ...

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Researchers find important 'target' playing role in tobacco-related lung cancers

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have discovered that the immune response regulator IKBKE (serine/threonine kinase) plays two roles in tobacco-related non-small cell lung cancers. Tobacco carcinogens induce ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Using plants to silence insect genes in a high-throughput manner

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, are now using a procedure which brings forward ecological research on insects: They study gene functions in moth larvae by manipulating ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Smoke-free-air laws should include bars

Exempting bars from a statewide smoking ban in Indiana would significantly reduce the health benefits of a smoke-free-air law. Including bars not only protects the health of employees, say Indiana University tobacco control ...

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CAMH discovery identifies potential target for anti-craving medications

Scientists at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) have identified a potential target for the development of anti-craving medications for people with addictions to stimulants such as methamphetamine.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Studies on smoking cessation in ethnic minorities

Telephone counseling services (also known as quitlines) are an effective intervention for Chinese-, Korean-, and Vietnamese-speaking smokers living in the U.S., and should be incorporated into current smoking cessation services, ...

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists devise new imaging technique for analysis of biological samples

(PhysOrg.com) -- When trying to understand how cells respond to toxins, scientists want to do as little sample preparation as possible. Preparing these cells by immersing them in chemicals or drying them out ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Philippines pushes tobacco - for fish farming

The Philippines has launched a new campaign promoting tobacco -- not for smoking but for fish farming, a government tobacco agency official said Thursday.

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Setting a good example? Smoking amongst key occupational groups

(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published by researchers from University of Otago, Wellington has found that smoking rates have declined rapidly amongst many occupational groups over the last 25 years.

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First physical evidence of tobacco in a Mayan container

A scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an anthropologist from the University at Albany teamed up to use ultra-modern chemical analysis technology at Rensselaer to analyze ancient Mayan pottery ...

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