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Cigarette smoking increases colorectal cancer risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study results strengthen the evidence that people who smoke cigarettes over a long period of time have an increased risk for developing colorectal cancer, even after adjusting for other risk factors.


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lighting-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.


Popular diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of heart failure and death

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sulphonylureas, a type of drug widely used to treat type 2 diabetes, carries a greater risk of heart failure and death compared with metformin, another popular antidiabetes drug.


Head and neck cancer survivors who use alcohol and cigarettes have increased death risk

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption before head and neck cancer diagnosis strongly predicts the patient's future risk of death, according to published studies. Now, results of a new study show a similar effect among ...


Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea (AP)

Cambodian moms-to-be chew tobacco for nausea

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(AP) -- When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco.


Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Smokeless tobacco called 'moist snuff' is contaminated with harmful substances

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff — placed between lip and gum — has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's ...


Defining feeding milestones in neonates helps improve quality of life

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study conducted by researchers and physicians at Nationwide Children's Hospital sheds new light on feeding challenges often faced by premature infants. Although the prevalence of this disorder is well recognized, ...


Can cleft palate be healed before birth?

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In a study newly published in the journal Development, investigators at the USC School of Dentistry describe how to non-surgically reverse the onset of cleft palate in fetal mice - potentially one step in the journey to a b ...


New study measures HIV anti-retroviral regimens' safety and efficacy

New study measures HIV anti-retroviral regimens' safety and efficacy

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine released on World AIDS Day reports that viral failure, the point at which medication can no longer suppress the HIV infection, was twice as likely and happen ...



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