Thursday, November 17, 2011
Today is the American Cancer Society’s 36th annual Great American Smokeout, but after 35 years, we might expect to see better results. There are still 45 million smokers in the U.S., and 440,000 smoking-related deaths every year, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). The toll is 7,400 in Kentucky, nearly 18,000 in Ohio.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Abstract: Background: Buprenorphine/naloxone (BUP/NX) is not licenced for use in China or Thailand and there was little clinical experience with this drug combination in these countries at the inception of HIV Prevention Trial Network (HPTN) 058, a randomized trial comparing risk reduction counselling combined with either short-term or long-term medication assisted treatment with BUP/NX to prevent HIV infection and death amongst opioid-dependent injectors.Methods: We conducted a safety phase that included the first 50 subjects enrolled at each of the three initial study sites (N=150).
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Also tagged buprenorphine, china, chinese, comparing-risk, inception, network, reducing-opioid, study, study-subjects, term-or-long, these-countries, trial-network
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Researchers speaking on the final day of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) focused on the growing interest in the scientific path to an HIV Cure…
A group of French scientists (from the Unit of Research on Nutritional Epidemiology, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bobigny, France; the French Institute for Prevention and Health Education, St…
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Also tagged agricultural, bobigny, france, french, french-institute, french-national, from-the-unit, health, health-education, institute, nutritional, research, research-on-nutritional, unit
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ABSTRACT Aims To examine the proportion of self-reported alcohol consumed by different gender and age groups in Brazil over the past year, and to examine whether the prevention paradox applies to Brazilian data on alcohol-related problems.
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Also tagged all-problem, binge-drinkers, brazil, brazilian, data-on-alcohol, distribution, drinkers, drinking-better, examine-whether, majority, over-the-past, proportion, response-rate, volume-consume
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Current alcohol consumption guidelines are inadequate for the prevention of cancer and new international guidelines are needed, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Guidelines in some countries are not currently based on evidence for long-term harm…
Tobacco harm reduction—encouraging the use of cigarette alternatives as a way to reduce the public health impact of smoking—is the subject of fierce debate in the public health community.1,2 Some believe such alternatives perpetuate nicotine addiction in smokers and may even be manufactured and marketed specifically to keep smokers smoking.3 “The goal should be relief from addiction to nicotine, not long-term maintenance,” says Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. . . .
ABSTRACT Aims According to theprevention paradox a majority of alcohol-related problemsin a population can be attributed to low to moderate drinkers simply because they are more numerous than heavy drinkers, who have a higher individual risk of adverseoutcomes.
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Also tagged annual-alcohol, distribution, drugs, european, european-school, largely-between, month-accounted, problems-varied, support-general, survey, three-or-more
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This article provides an overview of a sociological study of the views of 338 drug addiction treatment professionals.