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Health Highlights: July 9, 2009

Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Hospitals in Arkansas, Oklahoma and California have the highest death rates for patients with heart attack or heart failure , while hospitals in northeastern states such as New Jersey and Massachusetts have the lowest rates, says a Yale University ...

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Related Topix: Medicaid, Health, Medicine, Medication, Smoking

Fri Jul 10, 2009

Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY

Visitors to T.J. focus on stopping smoking

Dr. Michael V. Burke, treatment coordinator at the Nicotine Dependence Center at the Mayo Clinic, left, and Dr.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication, Rochester, MN, Rochester Metro

Thu Jul 09, 2009

RedOrbit

Pre-cessation Patch Doubles Quit Success Rate

Using a nicotine patch before quitting smoking can double success rates, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication

MediLexicon

Watson Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Approval For Fruit And Cinnamon Flavored Coated Nicotine Gums

Main Category: Smoking / Quit Smoking Also Included In: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare Industry, Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Medication, Smoking, Health, Nicorette, Nicotine Gum (generic)

Wed Jul 08, 2009

WSYR

Are electronic cigarettes a safer alternative?

They're called electronic cigarettes, and manufacturers claim smokers can get a nicotine fix without the harmful agents that typically cause cancer.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication

Tue Jul 07, 2009

The Hartford Courant

Smoking Cessation Harder For Women Than Men

Women appear to have a tougher time quitting smoking than men, according to researchers at Women's Health Research at Yale.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Women's Health, Medication, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Bupropion (generic), Depression

MediLexicon

Roll-your-own Cigarettes As Deadly As Ready Mades

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Smoking / Quit Smoking Article Date: 07 Jul 2009 Roll-your-own cigarettes expose smokers to similar levels of cancer-causing chemicals as manufactured cigarettes according to a new study by Cancer Research UK now published in Addiction Biology *. In the first study of its kind researchers compared ...

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Oncology, Medication

Rochester IMC

Reefer Madness II: Send Comment to FDA

The war on tobacco is a fake crusade designed to protect the cigarette industry.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Family, Kids, Medicine, Medication, Agriculture, Science

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Shaister.com

Stop Smoking Treatment - Consider the Result Ahead of Opting

Perhaps, you are a chain smoker and currently would liketo kick that habit by accomplishing certain stop smoking treatment .

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication

Messenger

Electronic cigarettes puff like the real thing

Could you imagine James Bond stirring his martini at an exotic casino while waiting for the battery to charge his electronic cigarette? Electronic cigarette? Yes, the "smokeless cigarette" is hitting the market, promising devoted smokers a way to get a puff of nicotine and look, act and feel like they're smoking, but without burning tobacco.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication, Food and Drug Administration, Tampa Metro

Medford Mail Tribune

Ingenious or insidious?

The use of smokeless tobacco in Jackson County has steadily risen in recent years among teens and adults - and now, officials fear the introduction earlier this year of new, candy-flavored "dissolvable tobacco" lozenges will make matters worse.

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Related Topix: Jackson County, OR, Medicine, Medication, Medford Metro, Ashland, OR, Talent, OR, US Politics, US News, Senator Jeff Merkley, US Senate, Democrat

The Olympian

Lives will be saved with tobacco regulation

Congress has passed, and President Barack Obama has signed, historic legislation that will give federal regulators authority to regulate the tobacco industry.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Food and Drug Administration, Medication, Marketing, Opinion

Sun Jul 05, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

FDA faces tricky task in limiting damage inflicted by tobacco

The tobacco bill newly signed into law is a compromise that acknowledges a few hard political facts: - More than 43 million Americans remain addicted to the nicotine in tobacco .

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Food and Drug Administration, Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Henry Waxman, Democrat, Marketing

The Standard

Warning: Quit-smoking drugs can kill ... but they're still on sale here

Two drugs to help smokers kick the habit will continue to be sold in Hong Kong despite claims they may trigger depression or induce suicidal thoughts.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Depression, Food and Drug Administration, Biotech, GlaxoSmithKline, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Bupropion (generic), Medication

Sat Jul 04, 2009

MediLexicon

New Study Shows Many Unplanned Quit Smoking Attempts Are Successful

Data published in the journal, Nicotine and Tobacco Research , shows that many U.S. quit attempts are unplanned and can be a successful route to cessation.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication, University of Pittsburgh

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Juneau Empire

Outside editorial: Big tobacco: Down but never out

Smoking kills an estimated 443,000 Americans every year. For each person who dies, 20 more develop serious illness.

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WPEC-TV West Palm Beach

FDA: Stop-smoking drugs must carry suicide warning

The smoking cessation drugs Chantix and Zyban must now carry a boxed warning - the strongest type possible - about the risk of serious mental health problems, including depression, behavior changes and suicidal thoughts, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Smoking, Food and Drug Administration, Medicine, Health, Zyban, Wellbutrin, Bupropion (generic), Medication, Depression

Thu Jul 02, 2009

PR-inside.com

Declare Your Independence and Stop Smoking for Good This Fourth of...

"This summer is the perfect time for LA County residents to stop smoking, get healthy and save money during these tough economic times," said Dr.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Los Angeles County, CA, Medication, Social Software

Food and Drug Administration

Smoking - Medicines to Help You

You are a woman. You are a smoker. You are not alone. Approximately 18% of adult women smoke.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Medication, Lung Cancer, Circulation

The Coastal Courier

New law to clamp down more on smoking

Smoking may be little less enticing after the passage last Monday of an anti-smoking law, but whether it will encourage more people to kick the habit or never start still is up in the air.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Healthcare Law, Law, Medication, Marketing

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