Individuals with Parkinson’s disease are less likely to smoke or consume high doses of caffeine than their family members who do not have the disease, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) will host free head and neck cancer screenings from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Friday, April 20, at the Eye & Ear Institute, third floor, 203 Lothrop St., Oakland.
Smokers reported that consuming milk, water, fruits and vegetables worsened the taste of cigarettes, while consuming alcohol, coffee and meat enhanced their taste, according to the scientists.
Psychologist Wesley Schultz of California State University, San Marcos, believes that despite the fact that we want to be normal, most people are very bad at estimating what normal human behavior really looks like.
Milk does the body good — and may help smokers break the habit, say researchers at Duke University Medical Center.
Cancer researchers estimate that the number of cancer cases will more than double over the next 25 years, with the great majority of the increase in developing countries.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are now studying an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering from advanced widespread emphysema.
The ban on smoking in public places in Wales, which came into force on Monday (2 April) provides a great opportunity for thousands of smokers to quit according to the National Public Health Service for Wales.
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) today is releasing materials presented to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a scientific briefing requested by the MPAA last Feb. 23, 2007 in Hollywood on the health impact of youth smoking and the behavioral influence of films that depict tobacco use.
Scientists supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, have for the first time identified genes that might increase a person?s ability to abstain from smoking.