Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
...educing tobacco use through evidence-based smoking cessation treatment programs. The Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Network is one of 19 cessation centers statewide funded by the New York State Department of Health's Tobacco Control Program. It w...NHS stop-smoking services are insufficient to deliver national smoking targets
...he study examined the effectiveness of NHS smoking cessation services in Northumberland and Tyne and Wear. Thes...ation in the country. Research showed that smoking cessation services in the region for 2003-4 reduced smoking rates by 0.1%-0.3%. If the trend continues, the s...Community-based care beats standard clinic in lowering heart
...ities at the neighborhood YMCA and to free smoking cessation programs. After one year, patients in the communit...nt with enhanced primary care attended the smoking cessation program or used the YMCA exercise facilities. Patients at the community-based clinic were more lik...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...and ACE inhibitors if indicated as well as smoking cessation and dietary modification counseling and cardiac re.... Blacks were also less likely to receive smoking cessation counseling. "Despite these disparities, we did not find any significant difference in short-term ou...Community care tops medical care at preventing heart disease in black Americans
... seminars, diet and exercise programs, and smoking cessation classes, was afforded to both groups. The primary care group received coupons for free local YMCA exercise programs, and the community care group could attend classes in water aerobics, line dancing and basketball led by a community health worker. ...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...ions, tests, and advice on diet, exercise, smoking cessation and weight loss to all patients. At last year's ACC meeting, Eagle and his colleagues reported that the GAP project resulted in a 25 percent lower risk of dying within a year of leaving the hospital among heart attack patients whose doctors and nurs...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...tudy reports that companies should explore smoking cessation programs for their employees. Abstract No. 020. Chinese prone to high hypertension rates than Americans In a meta-analysis of studies exploring hypertension rates among Caucasians and Chinese, Xiao-Fei Zhang of the Center for Clinical Epidemiology...Men more likely to get screened for prostate cancer than colon cancer, U-M study finds
...Hispanic neighborhoods or be combined with smoking cessation programs, for example. In addition to Carlos, study authors were Willie Underwood III, M.D., assistant professor of urology; A. Mark Fendrick, M.D., professor of internal medicine; and Steven Berntsein, M.D., M.P.H, associate professor of internal me...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...sociation between parental and young-adult smoking cessation is a true cause-and-effect relationship. In the meantime, the results of the current analysis suggest that it may be beneficial to include parents in primary smoking-prevention programs for children. "Prevention programs need to reach the parents as ...Inpatient smoking cessation counseling is associated with early differences in mortality
... how soon after myocardial infarction does smoking cessation begin to have positive effects? A study published ...American Journal of Medicine indicates in-hospital cessation counseling following heart attacks is associated with better short-term survival. Counseling smokers...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
...that pick up only part of the tab or that offer no cessation benefits at all, according to a new review of stud... low costs" of providing full benefits for smoking cessation varied between $260 and $2,330 per quitter, compared to partial or no benefits, the researchers say....Feb. 15, 2005, Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet
...zed trial evidence," the writer says. (The smoking cessation article is the subject of a video news release. Call for coordinates.) 2. Older Doctors Are Not Better Doctors, Study Finds Researchers examined 59 medical research articles that measured quality of care or medical knowledge (Improving Patient Car...NHLBI study shows smoking cessation programs improve survival
...ung Health Study (LHS) show that intensive smoking cessation programs can significantly improve long-term survi...ere assigned to either a 10-week intensive smoking cessation program or to usual care (no intervention). The intervention program included behavior modification ...14-year study finds that quitting smoking adds years to life
...ough and long enough to truly test whether smoking cessation reduces all-cause mortality. Previous studies linking smoking to death from specific diseases, such as lung cancer and heart disease, were based on observation rather than on experiment. These new findings "prove that smoking causes increased risk f...NIH awards USC $8.7 million to study tobacco use in China
...hat influences the effectiveness of prevention and cessation programs. The third study focuses on genetic factors responsible for hostility, depression, and other dispositional attributes and their role in tobacco and alcohol use and their prevention....News briefs from the journal CHEST, February 2005
...These findings emphasize the importance of smoking cessation in patients with reduced lung function but also indicate that smoking cessation may not be able to fully reduce inflammatory markers to normal levels if lung function is already re...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...estyle changes, such as weight management, smoking cessation and physical activity. They felt even less effective managing patients' lipids, controlling blood pressure, and preventing heart disease, compared to PCPs and cardiologists. Mosca and her colleagues believe that their study provides important ins...January/February Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...parable or greater cost-effectiveness than smoking cessation counseling, hypertension treatment, cholesterol treatment or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease rehabilitation. Cost-Effectiveness of Enhancing Primary Care Depression Management on an Ongoing Basis By Kathryn Rost, Ph.D., et al ****************...JCI table of contents, January 20 2005
... They found that return of viral replication after cessation of treatment does not destroy this important T cell population their numbers were in fact comparable to the numbers observed during therapy. Furthermore, the turnover of these virus-specific cells was increased and the CD4+ T cells were prompted to ...... They found that return of viral replication after cessation of treatment does not destroy this important T cell population their numbers were in fact comparable to the numbers observed during therapy. Furthermore, the turnover of these virus-specific cells was increased and the CD4+ T cells were prompted to ...