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Cigarette smoking impedes tendon-to-bone healing
10-18-2006 · EurekAlert!Orthopaedic surgery researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified yet another reason not to smoke. Studying rotator cuff injury in rats, the research team found exposure to nicotine delays tendon-to-bone healing, suggesting this could cause failure of rotator cuff repair following surgery in human patients.
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12-05-2006 · UT Southwestern Medical Center
A sugar molecule present on embryonic stem cells also has been found on the surface of a type of adult stem cell, a discovery that may help researchers isolate and purify adult stem cells for use in therapies aimed at bone healing, tendon repair and cartilage regeneration, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.
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- Cigarette smoking impairs ligament healing, researchers find
06-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report that smoking interferes with ligament healing. Studying mice with ligament injuries, the team discovered cigarette smoking impairs the recruitment of cells to the injury site and delays healing following ligament repair surgery.
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- Molecular 'marker' on stem cells aids research, perhaps therapies
12-04-2006 · EurekAlert!
A sugar molecule present on embryonic stem cells also has been found on the surface of a type of adult stem cell, a discovery that may help researchers isolate and purify adult stem cells for use in therapies aimed at bone healing, tendon repair and cartilage regeneration, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center report.
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- Smoking increases risks for head and neck cancers for men and women
08-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
A large, prospective study confirmed strong associations between current and past cigarette smoking and malignancies of the head and neck in both genders.
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- Tobacco companies admit their products cause cancer, but not in those who sue them
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!
Despite publicly admitting, to varying degrees, that cigarette smoking causes cancer, the industry has consistently dismissed these claims for people who have sued them, reveals an analysis of recent lawsuits, published in a supplement to Tobacco Control.The authors looked at the opening and closing statements of the defense, witness statements and depositions for 34 personal-injury claims brought against major tobacco manufacturers between 1986 and 2003 in the US.
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- Quitting smoking reduces risk of lung cancer mortality by 70 percent
03-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Giving up smoking is highly effective in preventing death from lung cancer and can reduce the risk of dying from the disease by up to 70 percent. In addition, new research from the Asia-Pacific region confirms that cigarette smoking substantially increases the risk of dying from lung cancer in both Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) and Asia, and importantly highlights the continuing popularity of cigarette smoking across large parts of Asia, including China, where the harmful effects of smoking are still not widely appreciated.
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- Smoking linked to sleep disturbances
02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!
New research in the journal Chest shows that cigarette smokers are four times as likely as nonsmokers to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep. Smokers also spend less time in deep sleep and more time in light sleep than nonsmokers. Researchers speculate that the stimulating effects of nicotine could cause smokers to experience nicotine withdrawal each night, which may contribute to disturbances in sleep.
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- Smoking indicator of alcohol misuse
04-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
Where there is cigarette smoking there is probably misuse of alcohol too, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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- Cigarette smoking may accelerate disability in those with MS
10-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Persons with multiple sclerosis who smoke risk increasing the amount of brain tissue shrinkage, a consequence of MS, and the subsequent severity of their disease, new research conducted at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center (BNAC) at the University at Buffalo has shown.
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- Bone research that grows on you
10-31-2006 · EurekAlert!
Rapid and guided healing of bones has moved a step closer with research by two biomedical engineering students who have found new ways to deliver bone growth enhancers directly to broken or weakened bones.
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