Tobacco kills 7 million a year, wreaks environmental havoc: WHO Anjali Nimesh Nimesh3 Jun 2017 11:11 AM ISTGeneva: Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, also warning of the...
Obesity linked to increased propensity, frequency of smoking Vinay Singh singh16 May 2018 7:15 PM ISTObesity linked to increased risk of taking up smoking and smoking frequency according to a study published in BMJ. Obesity is now recognized as one of...
More you smoke, greater is risk of Atrial fibrillation: ESC Study Medha Baranwal Baranwal18 July 2018 7:28 PM ISTA new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology finds that more the person smokes, the higher is the risk of developing atrial...
Passive smoking causes more stillbirths compared to Active Smoking : BMJ Medha Baranwal Baranwal23 July 2018 7:28 PM ISTA new study published in the BMJ journal Tobacco Control reveals that secondhand smoke (SHS) or Passive Smoking causes thousands of stillbirths, more...
Quit smoking on independence day: Questions and Answers by Dr Srikant Sharma Hina Zahid16 Aug 2018 7:04 PM ISTQ1. What is the history of Tobacco?A. Tobacco leaf use was introduced to Columbus by Native Americans, spreading to Europe and thereafter all over....
Daily use of e-cigarette doubles risk of heart attack Hina Zahid25 Aug 2018 8:20 PM ISTAccording to a new study conducted by researchers at UC San Francisco on nearly 70,000 people, it has been found that daily use of e-cigarette doubles...
Researchers develop new drugs to help quit smoking Vinay Singh singh29 Aug 2018 7:10 PM ISTResearchers created a more than a dozen candidate drugs to help quit smoking as they have the potential to curb smokers' desire for nicotine by...
A case of Black Hairy Tongue caused by Minocycline Hina Zahid9 Sept 2018 6:00 PM ISTDr.Yasir Hamad and Dr.David K. Warren at Washington University, St. Louis, MO have reported an interesting case of Black Hairy Tongue caused by...
Air pollution major cause of increased respiratory disease burden in India: Lancet Medha Baranwal Baranwal15 Sept 2018 8:28 PM ISTIndia, having 18% of the global population contributes to 32% of the global burden of respiratory diseases, with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Mother's smoking during pregnancy linked to early puberty in children Medha Baranwal Baranwal6 Nov 2018 7:25 PM ISTSmoking during pregnancy increases the children's risk of attaining puberty earlier, according to a new study.The study, published in the American...
Hookah smoking unsafe, impairs blood vessel function Vinay Singh singh8 Nov 2018 7:20 PM ISTA new study finds that hookah tobacco smoking, like cigarette tobacco smoking, impairs blood vessel function. The findings of the research were...
20% Young Indian Adults have high BP : Experts at CSI 2018 Vinay Singh singh27 Nov 2018 8:20 PM ISTMumbai, India: One of its kind study has reported that one in five young adults in India has high BP. This turns up to be around 8 crore people which...
