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Oral Cancer Foundation donates screening devices to West Virginia Free Clinics
Source: www.prnewswire.com Author: press release In 2009 the Oral Cancer Foundation initiated a program of donating VELscope® Oral Cancer Screening Systems to free clinics. The most recent recipients of this program are two West Virginia clinics: WV Health Right in Charleston, and the Susan Dew Hoff Memorial Clinic in West Milford. “Our intent is to identify free [...]
Continue reading...Tobacco lobby winning in texas
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Source: www.prwatch.org Author: staff An army of tobacco industry lobbyists been hard at work in Texas battling a clean indoor air law and a new formula for taxing spit tobacco. The industry employed 40 lobbyists, seven of whom are former state legislators, to beat back the popular proposals. The smoking ban had gained hard-won support from the [...]
Continue reading...Spit tobacco is not a quit-smoking solution
Monday, April 27, 2009
Source: News-record.com Author: Tead Eaves What do you think? Dr. Brad Rodu recommends spit tobacco use as a method to help with smoking cessation (”Smokers need the facts on alternatives,” Ideas, April 19). This strategy, known as harm reduction, encourages spit tobacco as an alternative to cigarettes because of lower risks for severe health consequences. Although smoking cessation is very [...]
Continue reading...Department of Defense tackles tough task in separating fact from fiction about smokeless tobacco
Monday, February 23, 2009
Source: www.eielson.af.mil Author: staff The hard truth about smokeless tobacco is hardly classified intelligence, but sorting out reality versus fantasy takes some maneuvering amid the mountain of information–and misinformation–that abounds. In observance of the Great American Spit Out, Feb. 19, and Through With Chew Week, Feb. 15 through 21, the U.S. Department of Defense is targeting smokeless tobacco [...]
Continue reading...Short-term effects of spit tobacco suggest long-term health risks
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Source: www.mayoclinic.org Authors: Robert Wolk et al. Use of smokeless tobacco raises short-term adrenaline levels in the bloodstream by more than 50 percent and also causes the heart rate and blood pressure to surge, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this week in Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The results suggest that [...]
Continue reading...Tobacco use in baseball on the decline
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Source: Major League Baseball (mlb.com) Author: Mychael Urban Users remain, but rules, more awareness have made impact Baseball has taken a variety of steps to cleanse itself of the stain — literal, cultural and medical — of tobacco use, and there’s plenty of empirical evidence showing that usage, while far from completely eradicated, has decreased over the past [...]
Continue reading...- Snus news & other tobacco products
- Samuel Broder: Why Isn't There a Gardasil for Men?
- Consistent evidence to support the use of xylitol- and sorbitol-containing chewing gum to prevent dental caries
- A vaccine debate once focused on sex shifts as boys join the target market
- High dosage brachytherapy obtains excellent results in head and neck tumors
- Bill would bar sales of dissolvable tobacco
- R. J. Reynolds introducing 'dissolvable' tobacco
- Smoking debate has become nicotine-delivery debate
- Israeli study sees link between oral cancer, cell phones
- Periodontitis associated with fourfold increased risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
- hilllaguna: Negating that nicotine replacement therapies are p...
- OC Advocate: It comes a little surprise that this "test" which ...
- hilllaguna: By world medical treatment standards a diagnosis t...
- Oral Cancer Foundation News Team: After sending this retrospective look to major can...
- hilllaguna: The mathematical probably that you have been expos...
- Lymphedema common in head and neck cancer
- Coalition to Stop Contraband Tobacco applauds Senate for passage of the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009
- Smokeless tobacco launches an attack on U.S. market
- Oral sex can add to HPV cancer risk
- Is it really about time? Overcoming the real barriers to complete oral cancer screening
- HPV-related cancer not confined to cervix
- Office-based ultrasound-guided FNA found to be superior in diagnosing head and neck lesions
- Why men’s health is a feminist issue
- BT Pharma secures EUR 13.1million (USD 17.7 million) in capital funding and changes its name to Genticel
- Cancer survivor tells his experience with smokeless tobacco
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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