Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Early in April, a House committee launched an inquiry into the marketing practices - particularly direct-to-consumer promotions - of the makers of several drugs prescribed to treat anemia. Then, late in May, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) banned the use of varenicline (Chantix) by pilots and air traffic controllers. Here's ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Doctors Can No Longer Ignore Smoking Effects
Cancer patients who smoke would benefit if their oncologists promoted tobacco cessation efforts and researchers collected data on tobacco use in cancer clinical trials, two journal articles say.
Prompting the suggestions from M. D. Anderson researchers is new research showing the link between poor treatment ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Examples
Brand Name
Chemical Name
Catapres
clonidine
Clonidine is available by prescription in pill or patch form.
Clonidine has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in helping people to quit smoking. However, the Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline Panel of the U.S. ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Examples
Brand Name
Chemical Name
Aventyl, Pamelor
nortriptyline
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved nortriptyline for use in smoking cessation, the Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline Panel of the U.S. Public Health Service recommends it as a second-choice medicine for this use.
The preferred medicines to help you quit ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Cigarette smoking, and even smoking cigars or a pipe, is one of the greatest risk factors for a heart attack as well as for stroke, lung cancer, and emphysema.
To stop smoking:
Set a quit date. Smoking cessation is most successful when it's done "cold turkey," not slowly by reducing the number ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
Mothers who smoke while pregnant may be knocking as many as four points off their baby's IQ. But intensive prenatal care may offset the loss.
The deficits turned up in a Cornell University study of three-and four-year-old children of 400 mothers who smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day when pregnant. ...
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