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Fingerprints tell all: Progress in fingerprint analysis

(PhysOrg.com) -- It has long been well established that fingerprints can be used to identify people or help convict them of crimes. Things have gone a lot further now: fingerprints can be used to show that ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Smoke-free air laws effective at protecting children from secondhand smoke

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that children and adolescents living in non-smoking homes in counties with laws promoting smoke-free public places have significantly lower levels of a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New Year's resolutions? Brain can sabotage success

Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason a lot of our bad habits are ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

Diverse diet of veggies may decrease lung cancer risk

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding a variety of vegetables to one’s diet may help decrease the chance of getting lung cancer, and adding a variety of fruits and vegetables may decrease the risk of squamous cell lung cancer, especially ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Australia launches world-first plain cigarette pack laws

Australia introduced world-first plain packaging laws for cigarettes into parliament Wednesday, vowing not to bow to big tobacco's "intimidation tactics" and legal threats.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Studying the metabolome of smokers, researchers find early signs of damage

Examining the blood "metabolomics" profile of smokers immediately after they had a cigarette revealed activation of pathways involved in cell death, inflammation, and other forms of systemic damage, say researchers at Georgetown ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 07, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Our brain can be taught to control cravings, researchers find

Standard therapeutic techniques decrease cravings of cigarette smokers by regulating activity in two separate but related areas of the brain, a new study led by a Yale University researcher shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Aug 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene is linked to lung cancer development in never-smokers

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of "never smokers" diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Years of smoking associated with lower Parkinson's risk, not number of cigarettes per day

Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease. A new study published in the March 10, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new approach for identifying smokers at highest risk for developing lung cancer

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) in collaboration with investigators at the University of Utah, have discovered a new approach for identifying smokers at the highest risk for developing lung cancer. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Personalized approach to smoking cessation may be reality in 3-5 years

A personalized approach to smoking cessation therapy is quickly taking shape. New evidence from Duke University Medical Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) suggests that combining information about a smoker's ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common anxiety disorders make it tougher to quit cigarettes

Researchers may have pinpointed a reason many smokers struggle to quit. According to new research published in the journal Addiction, smokers with a history of anxiety disorders are less likely to quit smoking. The study, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

China's new indoor smoking ban takes effect

(AP) -- China's latest push to ban smoking in indoor public venues came into effect Sunday, but the vaguely defined expanded rules were not expected to dramatically reduce the country's heavy tobacco addiction.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Cigarette health warnings push smokers to quit: study

Warnings on cigarette packets about the dangers of tobacco push smokers to kick the habit, and graphic images depicting human suffering are the most effective, a study released Thursday shows.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

New cigarette health labels: 'Gross' or effective?

(AP) -- You may think an image of rotting teeth and a mouth lesion are gross. But the U.S. government says it's just what you need to kick the habit.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0