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-reliever, or simply because they liked it and wanted to. The researchers at Liverpool John Moores University also showed that smoking within families was a key influence, with many young people parti...

Posted on: Monday, 19 January 2009, 12:27 CST A new study suggests that modifiable indoor respiratory triggers - namely exposure to cigarette smoke and pests in home - may be at least partly to bla...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants born at very low birth weights are at increased risk of lung ailments in the first 12 months of life, and a new study suggests that modifiable indoor respiratory triggers, namely exposure to cigarette smoke and pests in the home, may be at least partly to blame.

Before going to the gym for a workout or after indulging in cake at the office party, people with diabetes can use a portable monitor to take a quick blood glucose measurement and adjust their food or insulin intake to prevent extreme dips or spikes in blood sugar. The inexpensive finger-prick testing devices that allow diabetics to check their glucose levels throughout the day may sound like small conveniences. That is unless you are diabetic and can remember back a decade or more, when having that disease came with far more fear and guessing and far less control over your own well-being.The quality of life afforded to diabetics by technologies that easily and inexpensively extract information from the body offers a glimpse of what all medicine could be like: more predictive and preventive, more personalized to the individual's needs and enabling more participation in maintaining one's own health. In fact, we believe that medicine is already headed in that direction, largely because o

When President-elect Barack Obama takes office this week, we will have another health-nut-in-chief, like our last leader. Obama played pickup basketball on primary election days, ate salmon, rice and broccoli on the road, and often jogged three miles without huffing. The svelte president seems to be a role model in all ways but one: his smoking.

With an epidemic of antibiotic-resistant infections growing, experts are warning grocery-store pharmacies that antibiotics giveaways are an unhealthy promotional gimmick. If grocery stores want to help customers and save them money during cold and flu season, the Infectious Diseases Society of America says, they should offer free influenza vaccinations instead.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is offering a new Assertive Community Treatment Knowledge Informing Transformation (ACT KIT) packet as the first in a new series of Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Informing Transformation (EBP KIT) packets. EBP KIT materials help mental health caregivers provide a broad range of proven mental health services in a wide variety of community settings.read more

There are too few health visitors to implement the findings of new research saying that the profession could help new mothers suffering from postnatal depression. Unite, the largest union in the country, which embraces the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association, was commenting on University of Sheffield research which said that new mothers developing postnatal depression would be helped if health visitors are trained to spot signs and offer psychological help.

It seems smoking really has become taboo. It's banned in city buildings, bars, restaurants, many parks and even some Canadian city streets. But many Ottawa residents are still being fumigated in t...

This study shows that males who smoke cigarettes are almost twice as likely to need root canals than non smokers.