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Nicotine Levels Higher in Children Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in the Home

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, supports the World Health Initiative’s efforts for a home smoking ban, according ...


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Vaccine being developed to help smokers quit

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glaxo-SmithKline has joined forces with Nabi Pharmaceuticals to produce a vaccine to help smokers give up their addiction permanently.


Waterpipe tobacco smokers inhale same toxicants as cigarette smokers

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Smoking tobacco through a waterpipe exposes the user to the same toxicants - carbon monoxide and nicotine - as puffing on a cigarette, which could lead to nicotine addiction and heart disease, according to a study led by ...


Carvedilol shown to have unique characteristics among beta blockers

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

In a new study, researchers report that a class of heart medications called beta-blockers can have a helpful, or harmful, effect on the heart, depending on their molecular activity.


New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke leads to possible therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which ...


Investigating muscle repair, scientists follow their noses

Investigating muscle repair, scientists follow their noses

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

When muscle cells need repair, they use odor-detecting tools found in the nose to start the process, researchers have discovered.


Bladder cancer risks increase over time for smokers

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according ...


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Research reveals exactly how coughing is triggered by environmental irritants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have revealed how environmental irritants such as air pollution and cigarette smoke cause people to cough, in research published today in the American Journal of Respiratory an ...


New cancer study takes major step toward improved treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cancer researchers at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center have found a way to turn ineffective new cancer drugs into cancer-fighters. By using their patented chemical compound, SHetA2, researchers tricked cancer ...


Researchers solve structure of NMDA receptor unit that could be drug target for neurological diseases

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory reports on Thursday their success in solving the molecular structure of a key portion of a cellular receptor implicated in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other serious ...



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