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Japan Tobacco applies to sell anti-HIV tablet in Japan

Japan Tobacco Inc said on Thursday it has applied to sell an anti-HIV drug treatment in Japan. If approved by the Health Ministry, it would be the only once-daily single-tablet regimen for HIV infection in Japan, it said.
Reuters
added Dec 10, 2012 12:10
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Second hand smoke exposure and the risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children: systematic review and meta-analysis

Conclusions: SHS exposure, and particularly passive foetal exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy, significantly increases the risk of childhood invasive meningococcal disease.
7thSpace Interactive (portal)
added Dec 10, 2012 11:42
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[UK] Smoking 'Triples Child Meningitis Risk'

Sky News (uk)
added Dec 10, 2012 03:29
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[UK] Meningitis link to smoking in pregnancy: Cigarettes can treble child's chance of developing the disease

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
added Dec 10, 2012 02:59
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Meningitis risk from parents who smoke

Smoking puts unborn and young children at greater risk of a major cause of meningitis.
Metro Café (uk)
added Dec 10, 2012 02:56
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Second-hand smoke increases risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children

A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Public Health shows that second hand smoke and foetal exposure due to maternal smoking while pregnant significantly increase the risk of invasive meningococcal disease.
EurekAlert
added Dec 10, 2012 02:09
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Cigarette smoke boosts virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

Ritwij Kulkarni of Columbia University, New York, NY, and colleagues show that cigarette smoke actually boosts virulence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
ScienceDaily
added Nov 12, 2012 13:01
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Cigarette smoke increases Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation via oxidative stress

These observations indicate that the bioactive effects of CS may extend to the resident microbiota of the nasopharynx, with implications for the pathogenesis of respiratory infection in CS-exposed humans.
American Society of Microbiology
added Nov 12, 2012 13:01
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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
The Economist
added Nov 1, 2012 19:02
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Star Scientific Announces Successful First Look at the "Flint" CRP Human Study and Provides Updated Report on ASAP Human Thyroid Study

Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: STSI), announced today that the Roskamp Institute has reported positive findings in its analysis of 100 subjects who completed the "Flint" CRP study that analyzes the effects of dietary supplementation with Anatabloc® in hum
PR Newswire
added Oct 26, 2012 17:58
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