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With no place to puff, smokers more likely to cut back or quit

Tamiflu use drops as evidence of benefits grows

Study examines recurrent wound botulism in injection drug users

Botulism is a rare disease and recurrent botulism even more rare. However, in California, recurrent wound botulism among injection drug users has been on the rise and makes up three-quarters of reported cases in the United States. A new study publ…

Resolved to quit smoking?

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–Brain scans showing neural reactions to pro-health messages can predict if you’ll keep that resolution to quit smoking more accurately than you yourself can. That’s according to a new study forthcoming in Health Psychology, a peer…

Extreme obesity associated with higher risk of death for 2009 H1N1 patients

[EMBARGOED FOR JAN. 5, 2011] For those infected with the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus, extreme obesity was a powerful risk factor for death, according to an analysis of a public health surveillance database. In a study to be published in t…