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Memory Loss In Older Adults May Be Improved By Nicotine Patches

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…

Potential Role of Natural Alkaloids in Combatting Memory Loss

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

Difficulties In Treating Migraines Highlighted By Two Randomized Controlled Trials

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…

Star Scientific and Reynolds American Poised to Benefit from E-Cigarette Scrutiny: The Paragon Report Provides Equity Research on Star Scientific…

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.

200 Million Illicit Drug Users Worldwide

Illicit drug usage is practiced by approximately 200 million people globally, Australian researchers reported in the medical journal The Lancet.

The politics of visibility: Drug users and the spaces of drug use

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’.

Study Finds Care For Mentally Ill Veterans Is As Good Or Better Than In Other Health Systems

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…

Stimulant Abuse On Our Campuses

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…

Charlotte is test market for smokeless tobacco lozenges : Reynolds hopes to make up for its shrinking U.S. cigarette market while health officials…

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.

“E-Cigarette or Drug Delivery Device?” : Schroeder Institute Researchers Raise Questions About Safety, Usage and Future Implications of New…

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.