Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Wearing a nicotine patch may help improve memory loss in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, according to a study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology…
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) – A study released in the January 9th issue of the Journal of Neurology suggests that nicotine patches may help individuals with early memory loss
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Acupuncture and sham acupuncture appear equally effective in treating migraines, according to a clinical trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). An international team of researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine the effect of acupuncture compared with sham acupuncture in treating migraines in 480 patients at nine hospitals in China…
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
With the start of a New Year, the tobacco industry is once again looking for alternative revenue drivers to cigarettes, which continue to fall out of favor with the general public. The Paragon Report examines investing opportunities in the tobacco industry and provides equity research on Star Scientific, Inc.
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Illicit drug usage is practiced by approximately 200 million people globally, Australian researchers reported in the medical journal The Lancet.
One of the most important changes brought about by sociological research on drug use is the visibility of ‘the drug user’ as an active and multidimensional participant in the social world. While the medical and psychological literature which dominates drug research investigates drug users in a broad sense, it tends to constitute users as clinical objects or monadic subjects who are extracted from the social world and placed into the flat empty space of ‘the study’ or ‘the data’.
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study…
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Universities and colleges need to do more to protect young adults from the dangers of illicit stimulant use and to educate them about harms, argue the authors of an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Students use stimulants to keep them alert to enhance their academic performance, although the perceived benefits are questionable…
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Charlotte is one of two test markets for Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American Inc.’s newest products: dissolvable, smokeless tobacco lozenges that come as orbs, sticks or strips.
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Devices marketed as “electronic cigarettes” are in reality crude drug delivery systems for refined nicotine, posing unknown risks with little new benefits to smokers, according to tobacco control experts. In a “Perspective” published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the Legacy’s Steven A.