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| Doctors Should Be Trained To Confront Parent Smoking |
With the growing concerns of children's exposure to secondhand smoke, it has become more critical than ever to involve health care providers such as pediatricians in educating parents about the potential hazardous health consequences.
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05/14/07 |
| Doctors Say No To Blanket Bans On Treatment For Smokers And Obese Patients, UK |
Commenting on reports that smokers and obese patients are being denied surgery, Chairman of the BMA's Consultants' Committee, Dr Jonathan Fielden, said:
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05/14/07 |
| Smoking Influences Crohn's Disease - Effect Seen On Location, Severity Of The Disease In The Gastrointestinal Tract |
A new study in The American Journal of Gastroenterology suggests that smoking may determine which part of the intestinal tract is attacked in those who suffer from Crohn's disease. Where the disease is located often determines whether the patient will ev |
05/07/07 |
| New Campaign, Featuring Smokers' Personal Stories, Encourages Tobacco Users To "Be A Quitter" |
Smokers and tobacco users trying to quit will soon have a potent ally - fellow smokers. On September 26, 2006, The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), both agencies of the Department of Health and Hum |
05/07/07 |
| Prenatal Nicotine Exposure Can Lead To Cardiac Function Reprogramming In Adult Offspring |
At least 11 percent of American women smoke during pregnancy. The negative effects of nicotine exposure to their fetuses and newborns are significant. A 2004 report by the Surgeon General, for example, found that women who smoked during pregnancy had ch |
05/07/07 |
| Smokers Take More Sick Leave: More Evidence Of The Benefits Of Going Smokefree Early |
Research from Sweden shows that smokers take almost 8 days more sick leave every year than non-smokers. [1] This large, nationally representative study provides the best evidence to date that smoking affects productivity. Across the whole sample, the a |
05/07/07 |
| Tobacco Giant's "School Of Cool" Recruits Young Smokers |
British American Tobacco (BAT) executives gather today to celebrate a "good year" at their annual shareholders' meeting in London. But health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) believes the company is profiting from a new generation of young smo |
05/07/07 |
| Smoking Common During Pregnancy |
While pregnancy may be considered an effective motivator for smoking cessation, results of a new study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health indicate that pregnant U.S. women commonly smoke, placing themselves and their unborn children at |
05/07/07 |
| FSU Researcher's Award Will Fund Study Into Cardiovascular Grafts |
A Florida State University researcher who is developing methods for regenerating blood vessels damaged by secondhand tobacco smoke has received a fellowship award that could provide as much as 0,000 over five years for her to pursue new scientific app |
05/07/07 |
| 1.1 Million Smokers Quit On No Smoking Day 2007, UK |
Figures released today show that 1.1 million smokers (1 in 10) actually stopped smoking on last month's No Smoking Day (14 March) and a third of all smokers took a positive step towards stopping smoking. |
05/07/07 |
| Doctors Call For Tough Measures To Break The Tobacco Trap To Protect Children From Tobacco Smoke In Scotland |
Ten-pack cigarettes should be banned, shops that sell cigarettes should be required to have licences and keep cigarettes under the counter and tobacco vending machines should be outlawed. These are the some of the hard-hitting recommendations in the BMA' |
05/07/07 |
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