Monday, October 10th, 2011
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health have announced a joint, large-scale, national study of tobacco users to monitor and assess the behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations. The initiative, called the Tobacco Control Act National Longitudinal Study of Tobacco Users, is ...
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Saturday, October 8th, 2011
According to this week's announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health, a joint, large-scale, national study, the 'Tobacco Control Act National Longitudinal Study of Tobacco Users' will be conducted monitoring and assessing smoker's behavioral and health impacts of new government tobacco regulations...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
METABOLIC DISEASE: Antioxidants combat risk factor for type 2 diabetes in mice The number of individuals with type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions. One of the main risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes is resistance of the cells in the body to the effects of the hormone ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
The number of children aged 4 to 17 years being prescribed ADHD medications in the USA has been steadily rising since 1996, researchers from the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) have reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry. The authors wrote ...
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Specialists in Stony Brook University School of Medicine's Departments of Neurology and Neurological Surgery took part in a nationwide National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial, the results of which showed that patients at high risk for a second stroke had a lower risk of stroke and death when treated ...
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