Friday, December 30, 2011
PrimeVapor wants smokers to know that there is now a choice between quitting and smoking. Dr. Micheal Siegel is a professor at Boston University
Thursday, December 29, 2011
There is a different way to get that hit of nicotine without hurting yourself and those around you according to prominent harm reduction specialists like Bill Godshall of Smoke Free Pennsylvania. It’s called an e-cigarette and it is the future of smoking in America
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Also tagged 2010-concluded, cigarettes-were, different-way, flavor, future, harm-reduction, report, research, school, smoke-free, the-harmful
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
One in 13 teenage girls, aged 14 to 20, reported having a group-sex experience, with those young women more likely to have been exposed to pornography and childhood sexual abuse than their peers, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researcher…
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Also tagged boston-university, busph, group-sex-experience, new-study, peers, public, public-health, reported-having, school, sexual health / stds, sexual-abuse, teenage-girls, young-women
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THE DEC. 3 editorial “Banned in Boston, for now” blames manufacturers of e-cigarettes for resisting “efforts at regulation by the federal Food and Drug Administration by labeling e-cigarettes as devices for smoking pleasure, not therapeutic devices for nicotine replacement.” Why would the Globe want manufacturers to misrepresent the intended purpose of the products
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Also tagged better-health, better-markers, federal, globe, inhalers-should, intended, nicotine, nicotine-vapor, not-therapeutic, products
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In what is believed to be the first study of its kind to demonstrate an association between the antidepressant escitalopram and improved general pain, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), have found that opioid-dependent patients treated with escitalopram experienced meaningful reductions in pain severity and pain interference during the first three months of therapy…
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Also tagged antidepressant, boston-university, busm, during-the-first, first-three, general-pain, its-kind, meaningful-reductions, medicine, pain / anesthetics, pain-severity, patients-treated, school, the-first
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Women approaching 60 years of age who have one alcoholic drink a day, appear to enjoy better overall health as they age than abstainers say Qi Sun from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues, who examined data from nearly 14,000 women taking part in the the Nurses’ Health Study and report their findings on…
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) were recently awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), to improve upon the “seek, test, treat, and retain” paradigm in Eastern Europe among HIV-infected Russian and Eastern European injection drug users (IDUs) in narcology (addiction) care…
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that among HIV-infected adults with alcohol problems, measuring their carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) biomarker was a poor and inaccurate method for detecting unhealthy drinking. These findings currently appear on-line in AIDS Care
Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) and Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified unhealthy substance use as a risk factor for not receiving all appropriate preventive health services. The findings, which currently appear in BMJ Open, identify unhealthy substance use as a barrier to completion of mammography screening and influenza vaccination…
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A study just released by the Journal of Public Health Policy is taking a closer look at traditional tobacco cigarettes vs. e-cigarettes, and the results are surprising even the biggest skeptics. Based on available evidence, the study “Electronic cigarettes as a harm reduction strategy for tobacco control: A step forward or a repeat of past mistakes?” concluded that e-cigarettes are safer than tobacco cigarettes, and have the potential to become a smoking cessation device
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Also tagged charlotte-based, grammy, journal, michael-siegel, public-health, school, study, tobacco, university, usa
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