Cigarettes cost the average Australian smoker about $A300,000 ($NZ365,365) in their lifetime, a new calculation shows.
A South Australian infectious disease physician, Dr Ross Philpot, has run new statistics on the physical and financial cost of smoking.
By 65, the average 20-a-day smoker will have puffed on 400,000 cigarettes, and by the time they die 500,000 will [...]
Women who stop smoking can enjoy major health benefits within five years, but it can take decades to correct respiratory damage and lower their risk of lung cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday.
Those who kicked the habit had a 13 per cent reduction in the risk of death from all causes including heart and vascular problems [...]
WASHINGTON - Congress on Wednesday moved a step closer to handing the Food and Drug Administration broad new authority to regulate tobacco products, despite concerns voiced by many lawmakers that the agency cannot handle its current workload.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 38-12 for legislation that would allow the FDA to reduce nicotine levels [...]
BEIJING - Cui Dalin, China’s deputy sports minister, told legislators that the Beijing Olympics would inspire Chinese to live healthier lives. Then he stepped out into a nonsmoking hallway , and lit a cigarette.
The recent incident illustrates the uphill battle China faces as it prepares to take what health advocates hope will be a big [...]
WASHINGTON - Scientists have pinpointed genetic variations that make people more likely to get hooked on cigarettes and more prone to develop lung cancer , a finding that could someday lead to screening tests and customized treatments for smokers trying to kick the habit.
The discovery by three separate teams of scientists makes the strongest case [...]
State Health Secretary Mary Selecky joined other national health leaders in Washington, D.C., on Monday to launch a new stop-smoking campaign.
Smokers have heard all of the life-saving reasons why they should quit. The free program, called EX, wants to make current smokers ex-smokers by targeting how they can quit.
In 2006-2007, the anti-smoking [...]
Three international teams of scientists, one led in part by Toronto researchers, have for the first time homed in on the genetic origins of lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer in the country. After sifting through the DNA of more than 60,000 people, the scientists pinpointed a cluster of genetic variations on the human genome [...]
1. BRAIN TUMOURFear factor High.
Your GP sees a case Every six years on average. Scary symptoms
Headache.
More likely to be? Sinusitis, migraine or tension headache.
Who’s at greatest risk? Children aged 5-9 and those in late middle age.
Symptoms worth worrying about Recent onset of fits, unexplained
personality or behaviour changes, or increasing unsteadiness, possibly with
blurred vision and repeated [...]
“The take-home message,” said Dr. Laurel B. Yates, a geriatric specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston who was the lead author of the study, “is that an individual does have some control over his destiny in terms of what he can do to improve the probability that not only might [...]
Conventional hormone therapy can use animal-derived, synthetic or bioidentical hormones. It generally is produced by pharmaceutical companies in standard doses and forms. Conventional hormone therapy has been reviewed and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for safety and effectiveness and is monitored for purity [...]
