* Editor’s Note: This story is the first in a two-part investigative series, with the second article scheduled to run after the Fourth of July holiday. Over the years, regulatory filings show, Star Scientific (Nasdaq: CIGX) has often changed its pretty story — with the former cigarette maker now spinning tobacco as the key to breakthrough medical cures – but the company has rarely changed its ugly numbers.
Filed in tobacco
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Also tagged actually-fading, damaging-report, editor, enthusiastic, fourth, make-the-stock, martin-shkreli, nutraceuticals, over-the-years, pharmaceuticals, stock, story, tobacco
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Abstract Aim To assess the association between access to off-premises alcohol outlets and harmful alcohol consumption. Design, Setting, Participants Multilevel study of 2334 adults aged 18 to 75 years from 49 census collector districts (the smallest spatial unit in Australia at the time of survey) in metropolitan Melbourne
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-outlets, association, australia, between-outlet, eight-or-more, harm-at-least, harmful-alcohol, number, participants, short-term-harm, shortest, smallest
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Hospital patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are at an increased risk of developing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), which affect 1.7 million patients annually in the United States. HAIs are infections that patients acquire during their hospitalization and that were not present at the time of admission to the hospital…
In recent years, a renewed debate has developed around the potential for modified tobacco products to play a role in reducing tobacco-related harm. During the 1960s and 1970s medical experts recommended to smokers who could not quit that they switch to cigarettes with lower tar and nicotine content.
Filed in Harm Reduction, tobacco
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Also tagged ability, harm-reduction, medical-experts, potential, public-health, reduced, reduction, renewed-debate, tobacco, until-the-late
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Abstract Aims: To investigate changes in population smoking prevalence in jurisdictions which have implemented comprehensive smokefree legislation, taking into account long-term trends in smoking behaviour. Design: Interrupted time series analysis of population-level survey data using segmented regression. Setting: 21 countries, American states or Canadian provinces which have implemented comprehensive smokefree legislation.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged existing-trends, introduction, level, level-or-trend, majority, models-quantify, period-compared, provinces-which, rate, republic, some-locations, using-segmented
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Young people who start smoking at an early age have a much higher risk of starting to use cannabis by the time they turn 17. Risk factors that increase the likelihood of starting to smoke include externalising problem behaviours such as impulsiveness.
Conclusion: Heroin users attended MMT programs irregularly and their periods of attendance significantly declined by duration of the time they stayed in the treatment program. Additional interventions should be employed to help patients adhere to this long-term treatment program
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm). Its name comes from the fibrillating (i.e., quivering) of the heart muscles of the atria, instead of a coordinated contraction. The result is an irregular heartbeat, which may occur in episodes lasting from minutes to weeks, or it could occur all the time for years…
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
A long-term study has found that children who scored lower on measures of self-control as young as age 3 were more likely to have health problems, substance dependence, financial troubles and a criminal record by the time they reached age 32…