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New and Exciting in PLoS this week [A Blog Around The Clock]
Published February 9, 2010, 6:03 am, ScienceBlogs
As always, you should rate the articles , post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments ...
10 Ways You Can Help Prevent Stroke
Published February 9, 2010, 5:38 am, WCVB Boston
Helping older people control their blood pressure, diet and stress levels can help keep them from suffering a stroke.
Big fall in pregnant women smoking
Published February 6, 2010, 4:20 am, Hartlepool Mail
THE number of pregnant women in Hartlepool who are quitting smoking for the sake of their unborn child has soared by 230 per cent.
Showing Smokers Their Individual Risk Will Help Them Quit
Published February 5, 2010, 2:38 pm, redOrbit
About Respiragene™The Respiragene™ test, taken via a mouth swab, combines a measurement of 20 genetic DNA mutations associated with the risk of developing lung cancer with non-genetic risk factors such as age, family history and diagnosis of COPD, to establish an individual's risk of developing lung cancer.PHD Diagnostics and its clinical lab division, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratories, has ...
Personalized risk assessment tools can help improve smoking cessation
Published February 5, 2010, 1:16 am, News-Medical-Net
Giving smokers information about their own individual risk of serious illness helps motivate them to quit smoking, according to a paper published in the current issue of Postgraduate Medical Journal.
Tests showing smokers their individual risk of future disease will help them quit, says paper
Published February 4, 2010, 11:35 am, EurekAlert!
( Chempetitive Group ) Personalized risk assessment has been the mainstay of coronary artery disease prevention and has resulted in significant mortality reduction over the last decade. Such an approach could be equally applied to smoking cessation, now that we have predictive risk assessment tools that identify those at greatest risk of lung-related illness from smoking.
Wearing patch 6 months may help smokers quit
Published February 3, 2010, 7:43 am, CNN
If you're trying to quit smoking, wearing a nicotine patch for up to six months -- far longer than is generally recommended -- may increase your chances of staying smoke-free, a new study has found.
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