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- Landmark Survey Reports on the Prevalence of Personality Disorders in the United States
An estimated 30.8 million American adults (14.8 percent) meet standard diagnostic criteria for at least one personality disorder as defined in the American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), according to the results of the 2001-2002 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC) reported in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry [Volume 65:948-958]. Conducted by the National...
National Institutes of Health
- FDA Introduces New Technology to Improve Food Security:
Electronic Food Facility Registration Goes "Live,"
Allowing More Than 400,000 Facilities to Register in
Minutes; FDA Reports on Progress in Developing
Rapid Tests of Food Contamination
The Food and Drug Administration today announced further steps to use modern technology to provide new protections for America’s food supply. First, FDA announced that its new electronic registration system for food facilities, foreign and domestic, will be “live” today at 6 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This registration system, available online at http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~furls/ovffreg.html and designed to bolster the safety and security of America's food supply, will help...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- FDA Issues Public Health Advisory Entitled: Reports Of Suicidality in Pediatric Patients Being Treated with Antidepressant Medications for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is issuing a Public Health Advisory to alert physicians to reports of suicidal thinking (and suicide attempts) in clinical studies of various antidepressant drugs in pediatric patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). FDA recognizes that pediatric MDD is a serious condition for which there are few established treatment options. In addition to use of non-medication approaches to treatment, clinicians must often make choices among drug treatments...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Quitting Tobacco: Short-term and Long-term Health Benefits
The positive effects of quitting begin very soon after you stop using tobacco and continue long after you’ve quit. Short-term Benefits Your blood pressure, pulse, and body temperature, which were abnormally elevated by nicotine, return to normal. Persons taking blood pressure medication should continue doing so until told otherwise by their physician. Your body starts to heal itself. Carbon monoxide and oxygen levels in your blood return to normal. Your chance of having a heart attack...
- Quitting Tobacco: Being Around Other Smokers … Without Smoking
What To Expect Some friends, especially those who are smokers themselves, may not be supportive of your efforts to cut down or quit. Also, they may not understand how much impact their behavior can have on your efforts to quit. The changes you intend to make may disturb friends and family members who are smokers. Friends may feel that your efforts to quit smoking will put a strain on your friendship. It will be tempting to join others for routine smoke breaks. Did You Know? You may find that...
Organizations
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- Women's Tobacco Prevention Network - http://www.efr.org/wtpn/
- National Center for Tobacco Free Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/
- National Cancer Institute, Tobacco Control Research Branch -
- National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT) - http://nlcatp.org/
- National Tobacco Quitline, TCRB, NCI, NIH, HHS - http://www.smokefree.gov/talk.html
News
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- Smoking Levels In The WHO European Region Have Stabilized, But Greater Focus Needs To Be Placed On Young People, Women And Marginalized Groups
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:00 EST
- Ohio Dental Association Continues Its Efforts To Discourage Tobacco Use
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:00 EST
- Bipartisan Group Of Lawmakers Reintroduces Legislation That Would Give FDA Authority Over Tobacco Products
MedicalNewsToday - Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Switching to Smokeless Tobacco No Cure
WebMD - Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:58 EST
- Tobacco Companies Obstructed Science, History Professor Says
MedicalNewsToday - Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:00 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Tobacco Cessation Field Study for Adults in Recovery - 1
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00109460 - Active, not recruiting
Tobacco Use Disorder
- Assessing the Variability Over Time of Tobacco Carcinogen Biomarkers in Smokers - 2
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00158145 - Active, not recruiting
Tobacco Use Disorder
- Tobacco Use Among Arab American Youth
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00059514 - Recruiting
Tobacco Use Disorder
- LGBT Internet Based Smoking Treatment - 1
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00111501 - Active, not recruiting
Tobacco Use Disorder
- Effectiveness of Using Tobacco Free Snuff in Reducing Negative Effects of Smokeless Tobacco Use - 4
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00218296 - Recruiting
Tobacco Use Disorder

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