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 A big belly has been always linked with increased risk for heart diseases and diabetes, but a new study showed that a fat belly also increases the risk for early death. The study was one of the largest and longest health studies in the world and tracked 360,000 Europeans. The researchers found out that the people with big bellies have a...
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 More and more teenagers start to smoke. Some of them find it enjoyable and some don’t want to try a second time. Scientists have discovered that the people who have enjoyed smoking from their first puff have something related to a variant gene. These are the people who were likely to become the regular smokers.Scientists from the...
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 Diabetes, overweight and underweight people are perilous to their sperm production, showed two reports presented Wednesday at the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology, in Barcelona, Spain. Scientists from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, analyzed the sperm of more than 5000 men in couples...
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 Scientists looked at the link between
diabetes and depression and have found that diabetes contributes to depression
and vice versa.
The study, published yesterday in the “Journal
of the American Medical Association,” indicated that people who are treated for
type 2 diabetes had a 52% higher risk of developing symptoms of...
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 Coffee isn’t harmful to your health, says a
new study. Is it true that long term, regular coffee consumption has beneficial
health effects? It appears that the main benefit is that it reduces the risk of
dying from heart disease.
The study research, published in the “Annals
of Internal Medicine,” tracked over 84,000 women and...
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The Institute of Environmental
Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm
conducted a study which shows that people who use to drink alcohol may decrease
their risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. The study involved 2750 people.
1,650 of them had arthritis.
Alcohol has been proven to reduce the risk of...
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Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston published a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association for June 4. No matter how shocking it may sound, they showed colon cancer patients who have a family history of the disease may live longer when treated than those people who do not have it in their family...
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 China has
15 million (1.5 percent) underage smokers, 68 percent of them experienced their
first contact with cigarettes before they had reached the age of 13, a
government report said.
About 40 million of China’s 130
million children between the age of 13 and 18 have tried smoking and 15 million
have become addicted, China...
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 Smokers who are willing to give up this unhealthy habit have
many means of doing it: nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, medical help.
But they often fail. A new study found the reason: it is more difficult to quit
alone but in groups. The research was published yesterday in the New England
Journal of Medicine.
Findings show...
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 Researchers from the National Institute of Drug
Abuse proved that consuming marijuana limbers up the chances to develop heart
diseases. It seems that smoking marijuana determines the body to produce a
greater quantity of a protein that increases levels of blood fats, which are
closely linked to heart attack and stroke. The study was...
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 It has been proven that people who sleep less than six hours or more than nine each night are disposed to a higher risk of obesity, physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol drinking, according to a study made by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Among adults 18 and older who sleep between seven to eight hours a...
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 Medical records of 121,000 American women were gathered between 1980 and 2004 and analyzed, with the crux set on the effects that smoking stoppage has on one’s health state.
The study was made by researchers at Harvard Medical School in Boston and published by the American Medical Association in the May 7 issue of its Journal....
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 Although overall life expectancy in the U.S. has increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000, Washington Post staff writer David Brown and Majid Ezzati, researcher at the Harvard Global Health, have showed based on a research study that the situation is different as concerns poor...
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 Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington found that life expectancy is
declining in many poor US counties, especially among women. Smoking, obesity
and high blood pressure are three main factors which reduce the life expectancy
of women in Appalachia Mississippi River states and parts of...
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 According to a new US
study presented at an American
Academy of Neurology
meeting, heavy drinkers and smokers develop Alzheimer’s disease six to seven
years earlier than those who don’t smoke and drink. A second US study found
people with high cholesterol in their early 40s are one and a half time more
likely to develop...
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 Mobile phones could be even more threatening for human
health than smoking. At least this was the theory that an Australian
neurosurgeon tried to demonstrate.
Vini Khurana, a top Australian neurosurgeon, said that using
mobile for more than 10 years could double the risk of brain cancer. This was
the result of a 15-month analysis...
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 A new study by US researchers has found that people exposed to pesticides had a 1.6 times higher risk of developing Parkinson's Disease, a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that impairs the sufferer's motor skills and their speech. Another study at the Kuakini Medical Center in Honolulu has found that an impaired sense...
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 Scientists have found that
70-year-old people who take care of themselves, leading healthy lifestyles, not
smoking and maintaining a reasonable body weight and blood pressure are likely
to live until 90. The study, conducted by Boston’
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also states that the former lifestyle during
youth is not relevant,...
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 According to a recent study
involving no less than 903 New Zeelanders, it seems that people who frequently
smoke marijuana are prone to severe gum disease, also known as periodontal
disease. This is somehow ironic, to worry about your gums, when you’re addicted
to drugs, but researchers do their jobs and we should take their findings...
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 A recent study carried out by researchers at the King’s College in London and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey suggests that people who are physically active are younger and healthier than those who live a sedentary life.
The study was published Monday, in the Archive of Internal Medicine. According to the...
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 Researchers say that people who suffer from severe psoriasis
die younger than people who don't have the condition or who have mild forms of it;
however, the reasons are unclear.
Psoriasis is a common but incurable disorder that commonly
causes red scaly patches on the skin. It can also cause inflammation of the
joints, which is...
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Researchers have come to a conclusion that something as
available and as common as sunlight may help prevent the spreading of some
forms of lung cancer.
A new study finds that lower levels of the sun's ultraviolet
B (UVB) rays are associated with a higher incidence of lung cancer across 111
countries.
Still, that doesn't...
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 The American Cancer Society released a rather macabre study
on Monday saying that about 7.6 million people will die this year worldwide
from various types of cancer, with lung cancer, heavily driven by smoking, killing
975,000 men and 376,000 women.
In all, about 12.3 million people will develop cancer this
year, the organization...
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 According to a new study, smoking might be the cause of
age-related hair loss among men.
Doctors in Taipei found that the risk for the condition is largely genetic,
however some environmental factors may also play a role.
“Androgenetic Alopecia, a hereditary androgen-dependent disorder, is
characterized by progressive thinning of...
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 New research suggests that moms who smoke before, during, and even after pregnancy may be compromising their daughters' future fertility.
The study involved female mice injected with environmental toxins found in cigarette smoke before they became pregnant and while they were nursing.
Though the mice's litter size was not...
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 According to a new study, nearly three times as many smokers
given an experimental vaccine against nicotine quit for one year, compared with
those given a placebo.
The vaccine is called NicVAX. It triggers the production of
antibodies that seek out and bind with nicotine molecules in the blood. That
makes them too big to cross the...
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 According to a recent research conducted by a group of
scientists, the belief that smoking could further affect breast cancer in women
is totally false.
It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not
appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more
aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the...
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 According to a recent scientific discovery, nine out of ten
mothers whose babies died to cot or cot related complications smoked during
pregnancy.
The study, thought to be one of the most authoritative to
date on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), says women who smoke during
pregnancy are four times more likely than non-smokers...
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 According to the researchers at the University of Warwick and University College
London the lack of sleep doubles a person’s risk of death from cardiovascular
diseases, too much of sleep can also have the same mortality effect from
predominantly non-cardiovascular diseases.
Professor Francesco Cappuccio from the University...
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 According to a recent research conducted by the University of Florida, teenage girls who are on a diet
are twice as likely to start smoking compared directly to their peers who may
not be on a diet.
The researches goal was to look at the dieting and smoking
habits of over 8,000 test subjects, all females in their teens.
They...
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 First-degree smokers are not the only ones affected by
smoking, secondhand smokers are just as in danger, and so are their house pets.Recent veterinary studies performed in the USA show that
secondhand smoke not only threats the health of nonsmokers, it can also hurt
house pets such as dogs and cats.
“Secondhand smoke has been...
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 According to recent reports made public by a Dutch science lab researching
the effects of smoking, people who smoke are 50 percent more likely to develop
Alzheimer's disease or dementia than people who do not smoke or who givven up smoking.
Researchers announced these results after analyzing seven years of data from
almost 7,000...
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 Researchers in the UK have recently discovered that in families where at least one parent smokes children have a level of cotinine (a toxic metabolite of nicotine) five times higher than normal.The word “cotinine” is an anagram of “nicotine” and is a product of the metabolism of nicotine.The British study included 104 new born babies (12...
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 Researchers have found that oral sex with multiple partners increases the risk of contracting the human papillomavirus, which in turn increases the risk of developing throat cancer.
The risk is present for both men and women. The study is published in the May 10 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers, from John...
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Legislators in the German state of Bavaria elected a new premier, Horst Seehofer, 59, on Monday after the party he leads, the Christian Social Union (CSU), lost its absolute majority at the polls.
He comfortably won the vote by a 104-71 margin, though four members of the new state coalition, comprising the CSU and the small...
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 As the European nations have decided, cigars will be prohibited in the Netherlands, inside coffee shops and other public locations. Still, marijuana is allowed in cannabis cafes, but not mixed with tobacco.
Amsterdam has come to be the most popular capital of the world for allowing marijuana and cannabis inside cafes. From Tuesday,...
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Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced on Friday a new and weird case. The New York investigators have a new problem to deal with: it seems that a man was attacked and beaten by several police officers. After that, they sodomized the man in a Brooklyn subway station last week. The case was made public this week and has raised a...
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 The Chicago Health Department is getting ready to enforce
its plan of a statewide smoking ban in bars, restaurants and most public places
that goes into effect on New Year's Day. Some bars and restaurants have already
cut off smoking. Others are waiting until the law goes into effect next
Tuesday.
There will definitely be some...
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 Authorities have reported that an 83-year-old man residing in
a flat on Henllan Place suffered severe trauma and burns after his sofa caught
fire yesterday sometime around lunchtime, and that he passed away this morning
due to complications.
He was taken to hospital with around 80% burns, but has
since died from his injuries.A...
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 In acceptance with the Great American Smokeout, a national campaign sponsored by the American Cancer Society to encourage smokers who want to quit to seek help, Sheridan hospital banes tobacco.While the hospital has always been a smoke-free facility, the policy will prohibit all forms of tobacco on the hospital grounds, said Len Gross,...
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 According to a recent study conducted in U.S. schools and
announced on Friday, French fries and other fatty and sugary foods and drinks
are becoming harder to come by, but many schools are falling short on providing
physical education for pupils.
More schools prohibit smoking and other tobacco use, but
more than a third do not...
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 According to recent statistics released by the Alberta Cancer Board, Alberta’s economy is being over-burdened by smokers due to annual medical bills and loss in productivity.The study shoes that Alberta allocates more than $470 million of $1.8-billion total annual income, to smokers and tobacco-related illness.More than 3,400 people die...
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 Children living with adult smokers stand more chances to have a problem called food insecurity than those who live with non-smokers, a new study suggests. Food insecurity, a term developed in the 1990’s, describes the incapability to access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year. It is associated with health...
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 According to the recommendations of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, adult tobacco smokers should get the pneumococcal vaccine.Over 50 percent of serious invasive pneumococcal diseases occur in adults who smoke cigarettes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Pneumococcal diseases, which are infections caused by a...
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 After more than half a year since it was proposed, Pasadena officials passed a resolution that will partially prohibit smoking in the city.According to the law provisions, smoking will be forbidden in outdoor malls, shopping areas and shopping centers, on movie lines and in outdoor dining areas. AMTS are included, as well as community...
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 The unexpected death of NBC television commentator, Tim
Russert, aged 58, has generated a series of questions coming from patients that
have become restless about the medical system and the way patients are usually
assessed.
This problem is very serious, since a great percentage of
people die swiftly of heart disease, without...
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33,000 veterans who are taking the
anti-smoking drug Chantix received letters warning them about possible side
effects, including suicidal thoughts or violent behaviour. The drug has been
involved in the accidental deaths of more than 2,000 people who use it since
1981.
The Veteran Affairs Department’s Secretary
said the VA...
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 NBC newsman Tim Russert, 58, died Friday
while recording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” His death
shows that medicine can’t always prevent the risk of sudden death. It raised
questions on the amount of stress his work put on him and the increased heart
attack risk he was exposed to.
Dr. Randall Zusman of...
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In a statement he made Thursday, Barack Obama's doctor said the
presidential candidate had a good health condition when he last checked the
politician sixteen months ago. Given the senator’s excellent state, the doctor said the only things that might have bad effects on his health were his family history of cancer and his vice of...
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Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drugmaker, is planning an advertising and public-relations campaign, as a response to announcements about its antismoking drug Chantix and its already known negative effects on the users' health.Alarm signals were pulled as regards this drug, after studies have revealed its potentially dangerous...
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 Although there have been many
studies warning that smoking is an unhealthy habit, a recently released study
highlights the risk of dying due to smoking. The new study, published Thursday
in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that in India one million people are expected to die
every year in the next decade from tobacco-related...
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 After 17 years of following the lives of 192 couples, the
researchers at the University
Of Michigan School Of Public Health
and its psychology department made public their findings. Surprisingly, their
study found that couples who express their discontent and release their anger
live longer than those couples who suppress their...
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Smoking bans in public places have recently come into effect in several European countries and Germany is set to join their ranks this August.
There has never been a better time to kick the habit, but smokers should be warned - without professional help the task is likely to be much harder. Statistics show that only between 1 and 2...
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Nicholas Troy Sheley, suspected
of taking the life of 8 people, was apprehended on Tuesday night when he stepped outside a bar
in Granite City, Illinois. He was instantly recognized from
news by two regular customers, Gary
Range and Samantha
Butler, and bartender Jennifer Lloyd. The authorities were immediately alerted.
The...
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 J. R. Simplot, the billionaire whose fortune helped create an agriculture business, which made French Fries a staple of the American traditional meal, and also one of the biggest computer chip makers in the world, died on Sunday at his home in Boise.An official at the Ada County Coroner's office said that the 99- year- old died of...
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 British singer Amy Winehouse had a performance on Saturday,
in front of 80,000 music festival fans at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, England,
which included a bit of violence on her part.
At the end of her show, which lasted one hour, she climbed down from the stage
and threw a punch on one of the festivalgoers.
It is not...
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 It might not be a big surprise, but the drugs Amy Winehouse
just can’t get enough of are now officially endangering her life.
In an interview with the Sunday Mirror, the soul singer’s
father, Mitch Winehouse, expressed his worries concerning his daughter’s
health, after doctors said she had early stage emphysema and an...
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 The British authorities confirmed on Wednesday that the London police has started examining a home video which is allegedly showing the troubled soul singer Amy Winehouse smoking an unknown substance from a glass pipe.A video footage was broadcasted on Tuesday on the British newspaper The Sun’s web site, showing the singer saying that...
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 Senior Iraqi officials report that on the eve of Defense
Secretary Robert M. Gates’ arrival on an unannounced visit to Iraq today, car
bombs in Baghdad and three northern Iraqi cities killed at least 22 people and
injured more than 60 others.
Taken together, the killings,
including a particularly deadly suicide car bomb attack on...
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 The National Center of Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University made a study on 1,002 children aged between 12 and 17 years old. Many of them said they find it easier to obtain prescription drugs illegally than to buy beer, cigarettes of marijuana. Among the prescription drugs that children are interested in there are...
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 The US Food and Drug Administration
announced Tuesday it approved a new test for aggressive breast cancer called
the SPOT-Light test by Invitrogen Corp. of Carlsbad, Calif.
The test measures the number of copies of
the HER2 gene in tumour issue. A packet of 20 test kits will cost $1,400. Patients
who suffer from this form of...
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 Pilots or air traffic controllers will no longer be allowed
to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix. This appeal of the Federal Aviation
Administration is argued by the side-effects of the drug, which have been
discovered and announced in the last months. These negative influences on the
human body may be a threat to the safe operation...
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 The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it is
likely that the well-known anti-smoking drug Chantix may be linked to some
serious psychiatric problems. The FDA alert comes two weeks after the drug-making
company Pfizer added stronger warnings on the drug’s label regarding behavioral
changes, mood swings and suicide...
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 According to a new research study, a new obesity drug that
jams the biological trigger responsible for cannabis "munchies" is
effective even at low doses.
The drug, called taranabant, is the second in a new
generation of appetite-reducing weight loss medications.
It follows the lead taken by rimonabant, developed by...
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 According to a recent study, smoking a moderate amount of cannabis
(marijuana) may relieve pain but smoking high doses may increase pain.
"Previous studies have suggested that smoked cannabis
increases pain," lead investigator Dr. Mark Wallace of the University of
California, San Diego told Reuters Health. "This is...
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 According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Chantix,
Pfizer’s prescription drug for smoking cessation, may cause suicidal thoughts,
according to a statement issued yesterday by the federal agency.
Shares of New York City-based Pfizer Inc., which has about
2,000 employees in New Jersey, were down $0.30, or 1.3 percent, to...
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Pressed by military and partly disgusted by brutality exercised by Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, Pakistani tribesmen are rising up against Islamic militancy in some parts of the tribal region along Afghan border and other areas.
Three ethnic Pashtun tribes in Bajaur district - the Salarzai, Tarkhani and Utmankhel - raised a...
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India on Thursday imposed a countrywide ban on smoking in public spaces in its fight against tobacco use, which a medical study warned would claim 1 million lives in the country each year from 2010.
The ban, aimed at the country's 120 million smokers, has received a good response from people across the country, Health Minister...
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A man was lynched by an irate mob in a bar in Eastern Ugandan after refusing to stop smoking despite repeated requests from fellow drunken patrons, an official said Friday.
The incident was the first deadly attack targeting a smoker since a 2004 ban on smoking in public places was imposed in the East African nation.
"The man...
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Six New Zealand soldiers
awaiting court martials for allegedly smoking hashish while serving
with an army reconstruction team in Afghanistan were freed on a
technicality on Thursday.
The six members of the 107-strong team based in Bamyan Province were
awaiting hearings after being flown home in March to face the charges.
Bamyan...
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 According to statement released by officials and state media on Monday, a fire erupted at a shoe factory in Southeast China, killing 37 people in the latest industrial accident to hit the world's fourth-largest economy.The blaze at the Feida workshop, located near the city of Putian in coastal Fujian province, broke out at 9:50 pm (1350...
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 According to the New York Times, the House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco industry.Taking into account the record of warnings about smoking risk and the fact that smoking causes one in five deaths in the U.S., John D. Dingell,...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 The American business magnate Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Wednesday they will spend $500 million for a worldwide, anti-smoking campaign.According to the World Health Organization’s estimates, tobacco will kill almost a billion people in the 21st century, which means 10 times as many as it killed in the...
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 Lance Armstrong, a retired American professional
road racing cyclist, the only individual to win the Tour de France seven times,
joined efforts with four former U.S.
surgeons general on Wednesday to raise awareness to fight cancer.
Armstrong, a testicular cancer survivor, addressed
the media at the National Call to Action on...
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 A new law passed in the Chicago Park District will vote
Wednesday on a proposal to ban smoking at public beaches, playgrounds and play
lots. If it passes, it will go into effect immediately.
The Chicago Park District announced the proposal at Margate
Park on Tuesday morning. It would
prohibit smoking at all of the beaches, play...
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