Public Health

Smoking Cessation Reduces Heart Attack Risk—But By How Much?

The authors of a new study reported in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology say they know how much smoking affects cardiac health before and after a heart attack and have determined whether cutting back instead of completely kicking the habit ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2010 - 3:12pm

Extended Nicotine Patch Therapy Helps Smokers Kick The Habit

Extended use of nicotine patches – 24 weeks versus the standard eight weeks recommended by manufacturers – boosts the number of smokers who maintain their cigarette abstinence and helps more of those who backslide into the habit while wearing the patch, ac ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2010 - 6:37pm

Is Homeopathy Good For The British Economy?

Is Homeopathy Good For The British Economy? The UK's National Health Service, the NHS, is funded from taxation. A committee of MPs is to produce a report soon regarding NHS spending on homeopathic water- I decline to use the term 'remedies' ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 2 2010 - 4:07am

Cholesterol's Link To Heart Disease Not So Simple

By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers now have a clearer and more complicated picture of how one class of immune cells goes wrong when loaded with cholesterol. The findings reported in Cell Metabolism show that, when it come ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2010 - 7:33pm

Individual Risk Assessments May Motivate Smokers To Quit

Despite the endless anti-smoking campaigns and serious health risks associated with tobacco use, many smokers don't give up the habit. Currently, the smoking quit rate remains discouragingly low. Smokers try to quit on average 12 to 14 times before th ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2010 - 7:45pm

Simple Lifestyle Changes Could Mean Fewer Obese Preschoolers

Family meals, adequate sleep, and limited TV time may reduce obesity prevelance among preschoolers by almost 40 percent, according to a study in the March Issue of Pediatrics. The new research is the first to assess the combination of all three routines wi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2010 - 11:49am

Drinking Beer (Moderately) May Promote Bone Health, Food Scientists Say

Researchers studying the relationship between commercial beer production methods and the resulting silicon content say that beer is a rich source of dietary silicon (a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density) and may help prevent osteoporosis.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:32pm

Third Hand Smoke Is A Real...Killer?

Previously blamed for cognitive deficits in children, so called third hand smoke, the nicotine residue from tobacco smoke that clings to virtually all surfaces long after a cigarette has been extinguished, also reacts with the common indoor air pollutant n ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:02pm

Most Smokers Quit 'Cold Turkey', Researchers Say

Despite the over-promotion of nicotine replacement therapies by drug companies and anti-tobacco activists, the most successful method used by ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, according to a new policy forum in PLoS Medicine. In the article, researchers ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2010 - 11:40am

Music, Not Xbox, May Be To Blame For Teenagers' Headaches

According to a study of 1025 13-17 year-olds, gaming, texting, or staring at the TV for hours on end are unlikely to cause headaches in adolescents, but listening to one or two hours of music every day may do the trick. The study appears this week in BMC N ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2010 - 1:19pm