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AstraZeneca’s lung cancer drug, Tagrisso, reduced the risk of death by 51% in the early stages of the disease, according to a company statement.
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UK researchers get $2.1 million to develop lung cancer vaccine

HQ Team March 23, 2024: Researchers in the UK have won a grant of $2.14 million (€1.98 million) from the Cancer Research UK.

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Smokers may benefit from Sanofi's asthma drug after a phase III trial showed "significant improvements in lung function, quality of life" and uncontrolled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease respiratory symptoms.
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Quitting smoking at any age brings great benefits finds global study

HQ Team February 10, 2024: A study on smoking carried out by the University of Toronto says that people who quit smoking at.

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The number of adults who smoke has fallen to one in five from one in three in 2000 with 150 nations reducing tobacco use successfully, according to the World Health Organization.
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More smokers quit globally, WHO warns against industry’s tactics

HQ Team January 16, 2024: The number of adults who smoke has fallen to one in five from one in three in 2000.

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More than 35,000 sexual safety incidents, ranging from abusive remarks to rape, have been allegedly perpetrated by staff, patients, or visitors at the National Health Service of the UK for five years ending 2022, a probe by The Guardian and British Medical Journal found.
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Bipolar disorder linked to significant decrease in life expectancy

HQ Team January 6, 2024: A recent study from the University of Michigan reveals a surprising correlation between bipolar disorder and a significant.

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Teenagers are using e-cigarettes at a rate higher than adults, and in England, the numbers have tripled in the past three years, according to the World Health Organization.
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Teenagers smoking e-cigarettes at a faster rate than adults: WHO

HQ Team December 15, 2023: Teenagers are using e-cigarettes at a rate higher than adults, and in England, the numbers have tripled in.

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The WHO says close to 18 million people die due to cardiovascular disease every year out of which maximum deaths are due to SCA. Heart attacks occur when there is a blockage in one or more of the arteries to the heart, preventing the heart from receiving enough oxygen-rich blood.
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Opinion: Smoking, hypertension, stress snuffing out young people’s lives

By Dr K. Leelamoni November 7, 2023: My cousin’s son, 46, went to a hospital in the southern Indian state of Kerala as.

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Users of marijuana, the third most commonly used drug in the world, have high levels of lead and cadmium metals in their blood and urine, according to a study.
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Marijuana users have higher levels of lead, cadmium in blood, urine

HQ Team September 4, 2023: Users of marijuana, the third most commonly used drug in the world, have high levels of lead and.

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Grey matter in the human brain may be linked to the start of adolescent smoking and nicotine addiction — a study that may have implications for prevention and treatment.
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Study links smoking in adolescents to less grey matter in the brain 

HQ Team August 18, 2023: Grey matter in the human brain may be linked to the start of adolescent smoking and nicotine addiction.

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Kisspeptin hormone could treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder when a person has an extremely low sex drive that causes distress, scientists from the Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust found.
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Kisspeptin hormone may cure hypoactive sexual desire disorder

Kisspeptin hormone could treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder when a person has an extremely low sex drive that causes distress, scientists from the.

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Tobacco companies to clean cigarette butts from public places in Spain

Spain passes plastic waste decree that will force tobacco companies to clean up cigarette butts from public spaces

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