Monday, December 13, 2010
Among a large number of Chinese men presenting with chest pain or EKG changes, sequential subjects undergoing cardiac angiography were evaluated for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) lesions according to their reported recent alcohol intake…
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Salmon sperm is just not tasty – and that is good news for innovative technology company Nissei Bio, which wants to turn it into cigarette filters. While sushi lovers devour the sperm and sexual organs of fish such as cod, a lack of appetite for salmon “milt” means the northern island of Hokkaido generates thousands of tonnes of waste material rich in DNA each year, says Norio Nishi, Nissei Bio managing director. With the right processing, DNA can be used as a filter to capture dangerous toxins, says Professor Nishi, who is also professor emeritus at Hokkaido University.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Abstract: Background: Drug problems are reemerging in China since the nation implemented economic reform and an “open door” policy in the early 1980s. This is causing both national and international concern. However, knowledge and understanding of the Chinese drug problem is fairly limited because of the nation’s unique social and political history.
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The International Tobacco Control (ITC) Project today released a series of 11 research studies – published as an online supplement to the journal Tobacco Control. The series examines the Chinese tobacco epidemic, raising concerns about tobacco industry practices and tobacco control policies in China, and the health impacts of Chinese cigarettes in China and around the globe…
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Victoria Vasconcellos, the Chicago-based founder of an internet retailer, is in the thick of a regulatory battle that could affect millions of American cigarette smokers, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Vasconcellos imports electronic cigarettes from a Chinese manufacturer and sells them on her website, Cignot.com, to 14,000 customers. The 48-year-old is part of a growing legion of e-cigarette purveyors who are defying the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which contends the nascent nicotine products are drug devices that require pre-market approval and may pose their own health risks
Objective We hypothesized that the drinking behavior of adolescents in China is influenced by expectancies and self-efficacy and that adolescents’ cultural orientation towards western versus traditional Chinese values influences expectancies, self-efficacy and drinking behavior, with western values leading to more dysfunctional patterns of beliefs and drinking, and that these beliefs are influenced by students’ gender and school environment.Methods A total of 1020 high school students from Beijing completed the Chinese Adolescent Alcohol Expectancy, the Chinese Cultural Orientation and the Chinese Self-regulation Self-efficacy questionnaires.Results Results generally confirmed our hypotheses. Higher negative expectancies and higher self-efficacy reduced the likelihood of drinking significantly. Higher positive expectancies increased the likelihood of regular drinking but not occasional drinking
In the 25 years since drug abuse re-emerged in China in the 1980s, the National Institute of Drug Dependence (NIDD) has made many contributions to China’s antidrug campaign. This present paper offers an account of the history, current status and future of drug dependence research at NIDD. NIDD was originally a research centre at Beijing Medical University, founded by the Chinese Ministry of Health to address the rapid spread of drug abuse in China.
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Authors: Kang L, Li B, Gao L, Li S, Wang D, Hu M, Li J The efficacy and safety of Tai-Kang-Ning (TKN) capsule, a traditional Chinese medicine formula, for the treatment of acute heroin withdrawal syndrome were investigated by conducting a double-blind, double-dummy, positive-controlled, and randomized trial. Sixty-four patients with acute heroin withdrawal syndrome were recruited. These patients were treated with either TKN or lofexidine in a fixed schedule of doses for 10 days
Authors: Kang L, Li B, Gao L, Li S, Wang D, Hu M, Li J The efficacy and safety of Tai-Kang-Ning (TKN) capsule, a traditional Chinese medicine formula, for the treatment of acute heroin withdrawal syndrome were investigated by conducting a double-blind, double-dummy, positive-controlled, and randomized trial. Sixty-four patients with acute heroin withdrawal syndrome were recruited. These patients were treated with either TKN or lofexidine in a fixed schedule of doses for 10 days
CONCLUSIONS: Nonfatal heroin overdoses are common among Chinese heroin users. Drug users should be encouraged to participate and remain in methadone treatment to prevent overdose and be educated about proper response to overdose to reduce risk of overdose death.