The British government is launching a new campaign to try to convince the smokers that vaping is not as harmful as smoking and is a good way to quit, in a bid to counter...
January 14th, 2019Being a pregnant woman in America is a complicated affair, writes Annalisa Merelli for Quartz. Once a woman starts expecting, social and medical attitudes shift to view...
Results from the Monitoring the Future Study, released last month, show a jump in vaping by teenagers similar to the one indicated by National Youth Tobacco...
December 3rd, 2018As the United States continues to wrestle with the heroin and opioid epidemic, no one in the country is probably more qualified to write about the issue than...
October 8th, 2018'Cigarette' might appear in the term 'e-cigarette' but that is as far as their similarities extend, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study. Assuming e-cigarettes are...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded an $8.8m grant to Keep It Up!, a novel online HIV prevention programme that has been shown to reduce sexually...Addiction Research
Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction, states the Society for the Study...HIV/AIDS
HIV-positive children in South Africa are more likely to have developmental disabilities compared to children who are HIV negative, according to researchers at Columbia...HIV/AIDS
A novel online HIV prevention programme with spicy soap operas and interactive games – like a rising thermometer of sexual risk – reduced sexually transmitted...
November 8th, 2017Marijuana use is independently associated with increased sexual desire and frequency, and does not impair performance, found a large Stanford University study.
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