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| American Academy Of Pain Medicine Scientific Poster Abstracts From The 24th Annual Meeting |
Pain medicine investigators presented preliminary research findings on Thursday, February 14, 2008, at poster sessions held during the 24th annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine at the Gaylord Palms, Orlando, February 12-16, 2008.
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03/05/08 |
| Stem Cells Prevented From Becoming Cartilage By Toxins In Cigarette Smoke |
A toxic pollutant spread by oil spills, forest fires and car exhaust is also present in cigarette smoke, and may represent a second way in which smoking delays bone healing, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Orthopaedic Researc |
03/05/08 |
| Don't Drive Smokers Into Dangerous Behaviour, UK |
Commenting on the latest survey by Nottingham University into smoking outside NHS hospitals, Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health, said:
"UNISON supports a smoke-free workplace and campaigned long and hard to bring in the current legislation. At the |
03/05/08 |
| Misperceptions About Smoking Cessation Aids May Hinder Smokers From Using Effective Treatment For Quitting |
Leading researchers
in the field of smoking cessation are gathering at the annual meeting of
the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) to present the
latest research on smoking... |
03/05/08 |
| Health Of Women And Children Threatened By Tobacco Use Including Secondhand Smoke Exposure During Pregnancy |
Findings from a National Institute of Health (NIH) study indicate that rates of tobacco use during pregnancy, as well as exposure of pregnant women and their young children to secondhand smoke, are significant threats to health in several low and middle- |
03/05/08 |
| New Study: How Cigarette Smoke Causes Cancer |
Everyone has known for decades that smoking causes cancer, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in ciga |
03/05/08 |
| Efforts To Fix Or Kill Lung Cancer Cells Thwarted By Protein |
A protein that helps lung cancer cells thrive appears to do so by blocking healthy cells' ability to fix themselves when radiation or chemicals, such as nicotine, damage their DNA, according to a University of Florida study to be published Friday (Feb. 2 |
03/05/08 |
| Secondhand Smoke Exposure: Worldwide Concern |
Although secondhand smoke has been linked to death and illness, a new study suggests that parents around the world do very little to protect their children from "passive smoking" exposure.
Heathe... |
03/05/08 |
| France: Heart Attack Rates Drop Following National Smoking Ban |
Statistics show that since a smoking ban took effect in France a year ago, admissions of patients with myocardial infarction dropped 15 percent at emergency wards.
French health authorities told the National Sanitary Institute that there was a 15 per |
03/05/08 |
| Public Health Officials Warn About The Unrecognized Health Hazards Of Smoking From A Hookah, Reports The Harvard Mental Health Letter |
A new fad among college
students and other young people -- smoking from a hookah -- is raising
public health concerns. The centuries-old tradition of smoking from a
hookah, or waterpipe, is ... |
03/05/08 |
| Step-Parents Influence Teenage Smoking Behaviour, UK |
Smoking by a non-biological parent is as influential as smoking by biological parents in determining whether their teenager smokes, reveal the results of a Cancer Research UK study published in the journal Addiction*.
Researchers based at Cancer Researc |
03/05/08 |
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