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Gene May Be Tied to Both Smoking and ADHD, Study Suggests
More research needed to determine if there are actual shared genetic risks, researchers say
Oct 30, 2012
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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Nov 2, 2012 15:41
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[Canada] Is Childhood ADHD A Gateway To Smoking In Adulthood?
Children diagnosed with attention hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are twice as likely to pick up smoking than youngsters without the disorder. A group of Canadian researchers lead by Dr. Ridha Joober of the Douglas Mental Health University Institute in M
Oct 31, 2012
TIME Magazine
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Nov 2, 2012 15:36
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Grandma’s curse / Some of the effects of smoking may be passed from grandmother to grandchild
Which crucial genes these histones surround remains obscure. Nor have the team yet found out whether the epigenetic effect they have discovered reaches further than grand-offspring. If it does, though, it suggests that epigenetics really might act like
Nov 1, 2012
The Economist
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Nov 1, 2012 19:02
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Genetic Link To Smoking And ADHD
The scientists, from McGill University, Canada, reported in the Archives of Disease in Childhood that a variation of a gene may be associated with childhood ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and smoking addiction.
Oct 31, 2012
Medical News TODAY(UK)
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Oct 31, 2012 19:46
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[Israel] Mechanism Protects Smokers from Parkinson's
Now a team of Israeli researchers, including scientists at Tel Aviv Univ., have uncovered the genetic mechanism that protects smokers from the disease. . . . Studying a cluster of genes known as CHRNB5, CHRNB4 and CHRNB3, the researchers discovered that
Oct 23, 2012
Laboratory Equipment
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Oct 23, 2012 17:16
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[Japan] Lower levels of a key lung protein increase the risk of developing cigarette-smoke-induced emphysema
a research team from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako, Japan, has discovered one gene implicated in vulnerability to smoke-induced emphysema, a finding that could help doctors identify those cigarette smokers at highest risk of end-stage chro
Oct 19, 2012
physorg.com
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Oct 19, 2012 09:13
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Childhood asthma induced by maternal smoking may pass on to many generations
Virender Rehan, M.D., principal investigator at The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed), focuses on understanding the detrimental effects of maternal smoking, not only on the exposed offspring but also on th
Oct 16, 2012
ANI (in)
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Oct 16, 2012 16:15
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Associations of cigarette smoking and polymorphisms in brain-derived neurotrophic factor and catechol-O-methyltransferase with neurocognition in alcohol dependent individuals during early abstinence
Overall, the findings lend support to the expanding clinical movement to make smoking cessation programs available to smokers at the inception of treatment for alcohol/substance use disorders.
Oct 12, 2012
Frontiers Journals (cz)
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Oct 12, 2012 16:04
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Veterans are at higher risk of alcohol abuse relapse due to smoking
In a new study published in Frontiers, Dr Timothy Durazzo and colleagues from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, expand upon their decade of research showing that smoking while kicking the alcohol habit impai
Oct 12, 2012
EurekAlert
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Oct 12, 2012 15:57
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[Arizona] INNES: Blog: The leading cause of lung cancer is smoking, not genetics
Last week's story about University of Arizona medical student Derek Neal's battle with lung cancer attracted some inaccurate comments from readers. Some readers decided, based on reading the story, that tobacco use does not cause lung cancer.
Oct 9, 2012
Arizona Daily Star
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Oct 9, 2012 07:08