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Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

A new British report commissioned as part of BBC News' Healthy Britons poll has found that 80% of people want the legal age of smoking raised from 16 to 18. This follows a recent report in the journal Education and Health on the health-care consequences of long-term smoking.

6 Sep 2004

Data from over a quarter of cancer clinical trials may never reach the public domain

Doctors are not being armed with all the information they need to make treatment decisions because data from clinical trials is being left unpublished and inaccessible, leading figures from Cancer Research UK warn today.

6 Sep 2004

Scientists investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself

The scientists will investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself – after being damaged by a heart attack, for example – and to regain function.

6 Sep 2004

Study looks at the patient-practitioner relationship in complementary and alternative therapies

Why do patients opt for complementary and alternative therapies when they are ill? Is the relationship and communication between a patient and a practitioner as important in the treatment as the complementary treatments prescribed?

6 Sep 2004

Sight of a friendly face can reduce stress in sheep

This discovery, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, could point to the reason that many of us carry pictures of loved ones in our wallets or handbags.

6 Sep 2004

Increasingly the Internet's potential is being harnessed to transform healthcare delivery at the patient level

To date, the Internet has been used principally as a tool for commerce and as a cost-effective communication medium by the European healthcare industry. Increasingly however, the Internet's potential is being harnessed to transform healthcare delivery at the patient level.

6 Sep 2004

Hair growing stem cells may one day provide treatments for human hair conditions

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University have isolated stem cells from the skin of a mouse, and showed, for the first time, that an individual stem cell can renew itself in the laboratory and then be used in grafts to produce skin, hair and oil glands.

5 Sep 2004

Bone marrow produces cells that permanently heal wounds

Bone marrow produces cells that not only help fight infection but also permanently heal wounds, according to research at the University of Washington. Previously, researchers had not known that bone marrow contributed to the development of new skin in wounds.

5 Sep 2004

New life-saving, man overboard boating device wins award

Massey University design graduate Leon Oliver’s ‘Sentinel’ is designed to protect a crew member who has fallen overboard at sea. The user can climb into a raft, which has been remotely deployed from the vessel by the victim using an electronic watch. The watch is also designed to activate an onboard alarm to alert the crew to the accident.

5 Sep 2004

New multilingual chronic obstructive pulmonary disease website

The European Respiratory Society has launched a new multilingual website specifically targeted at patients with chronic bronchitis, emphysema or other “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” (COPD), group of conditions in which the patient has an expiratory airflow obstruction that causes air to become trapped in the lung and limit the ability to exhale.

5 Sep 2004

Nicotine patches and gum less effective for women than men

Research at Texas A&M University reveals that one of the most widely used forms of treatment - nicotine replacement therapy (NRT), or nicotine chewing gum and 'the patch' - may be less effective for women than men.

5 Sep 2004

Conference – Childhood leukaemia: incidence, causal mechanisms and prevention

The advances in treating childhood leukaemia over the last forty years have been one of cancer’s outstanding success stories – but the fall in mortality has diverted attention from a rise in incidence, a London conference will hear today (Monday 6 September).

5 Sep 2004

Research may significant consequences in leading drug researchers to develop new and more effective means to block influenza and other viruses

Combating viruses is often a frustrating business. Find a way to destroy them - and before you know it, they’ve found a way to defend themselves and neutralize the anti-viral treatment.

5 Sep 2004

Air conditioning coil reduces over all sickness by 20%

Air conditioning coil reduces over all sickness by 20%, reduces respiratory symptoms by 40% and has resulted in a 99% reduction of microbial and endotoxin concentrations on irradiated surfaces within the ventilation system.

5 Sep 2004

Yellow glasses save vision

Blue light destroys certain structural elements in the eye, as was revealed by the Russian research team. The mechanism of this effect was studied, and protective measures were offered.

5 Sep 2004

Widely used antimalarial drug exhibits antiviral activity against the SARS

Virologists from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium report that chloroquine, a widely used antimalarial drug, exhibits antiviral activity against the SARS coronavirus. Chloroquine is an inexpensive and safe drug available worldwide.

5 Sep 2004

Researchers unravel genetic makeup of ticks to tackle disease

Ticks as small as a freckle can transmit a number of illnesses for which there is no vaccine and, in some cases, no cure. These creatures even could become bioterrorism weapons.

4 Sep 2004

Britons are taller, straighter and larger than ever

Size UK measured the body shapes of around 1,500 Mancunian men and women in October 2001 among 10,000 measured nationwide under the survey backed by the department of trade and industry and a consortium or retailers including Marks & Spencer, GUS, N Brown and Redcats.

2 Sep 2004

Three key responses behind food neophobia, the rejection of new foods in both adults and children

Yuk! That short expressive word, the trademark of the fussy eater, is dreaded by thousands of parents.

2 Sep 2004

Smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol have taken a substantial toll on the American wallet

When these cardiovascular risk factors led to a fatal heart attack or stroke in people who had not had a previous heart attack or stroke, it cost more than $13 billion in hospitalization and lost wages annually.

2 Sep 2004

Research News and Research

Public call for legal age of smoking to be raised helps underline dire health-care consequences of long-term smoking

Data from over a quarter of cancer clinical trials may never reach the public domain

Scientists investigate the ability of heart muscle to repair itself

Study looks at the patient-practitioner relationship in complementary and alternative therapies

Sight of a friendly face can reduce stress in sheep

Increasingly the Internet's potential is being harnessed to transform healthcare delivery at the patient level

Hair growing stem cells may one day provide treatments for human hair conditions

Bone marrow produces cells that permanently heal wounds

New life-saving, man overboard boating device wins award

New multilingual chronic obstructive pulmonary disease website

Nicotine patches and gum less effective for women than men

Conference – Childhood leukaemia: incidence, causal mechanisms and prevention

Research may significant consequences in leading drug researchers to develop new and more effective means to block influenza and other viruses

Air conditioning coil reduces over all sickness by 20%

Yellow glasses save vision

Widely used antimalarial drug exhibits antiviral activity against the SARS

Researchers unravel genetic makeup of ticks to tackle disease

Britons are taller, straighter and larger than ever

Three key responses behind food neophobia, the rejection of new foods in both adults and children

Smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol have taken a substantial toll on the American wallet

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