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Cigarette Smoke Reduces Self-Healing Capacity of Lungs

Cigarette Smoke Reduces Self-Healing Capacity of Lungs

Highlights The lung’s homeostasis is maintained by WNT/beta-catenin signaling, which is regulated by WNT receptor called Frizzled 4 (FZD4). The Frizzled 4 (FZD4), sits on the surf...

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Can Painkillers Provide Relief Without Dangerous Side Effects?

Can Painkillers Provide Relief Without Dangerous Side Effects?

Highlights Painkillers provide relief by interfering with the nerve signals that perceive pain. Opioid drugs are often used as painkillers for treating tissue damage and inflammatio...

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Quitting Smoking Linked to Communication Between Key Regions of the Brain

Quitting Smoking Linked to Communication Between Key Regions of the Brain

Highlights: Smoking is a hazard to health but many people are unable to stop smoking; a new study has found that poor communication between certain parts of the brain is ...

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Later Risk of Substance Abuse Linked with Aggressive Behavior

Later Risk of Substance Abuse Linked with Aggressive Behavior

Highlights: Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is an aggressive behavioral condition marked by frequent physical or verbal outbursts that often affects young adults....

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Snail Venom Could Treat Chronic Pain

Snail Venom Could Treat Chronic Pain

Highlights: A natural compound found in small marine snail could be a potent pain reliever The compound called Rg1A functions as a pain pathway receptor and helps ...

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Alcohol Intake Quickens Stiffening of Arteries, Increases Heart Disease Risk

Alcohol Intake Quickens Stiffening of Arteries, Increases Heart Disease Risk

Highlights Excessive alcohol intake can affect the elasticity of the arterial walls (arterial stiffness) and prematurely age the arteries, interfering with blood flow. Arteria...

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New Insights into Emphysema Progression After Treatment

New Insights into Emphysema Progression After Treatment

Highlights Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction and lung volume reduction surgery are the only available treatments for patients with advanced stage emphysema. Though they improve...

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Ibudilast- Anti-inflammatory Medication Shows New Hope in Treating Alcoholism

Ibudilast- Anti-inflammatory Medication Shows New Hope in Treating Alcoholism

Highlights Ibudilast, an anti-inflammatory drug for asthma shows promise in treating alcoholism. The efficacy of the drug was evaluated by measuring the participant’s response to st...

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Mindfulness Prompts Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Mindfulness Prompts Healthy Lifestyle Choices

Highlights People conceive messages about healthy lifestyle choices differently. A new study revealed that the reason for this is because people who are more mindful are more rece...

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Nicotine Normalizes Cognitive Problems Associated With Schizophrenia

Nicotine Normalizes Cognitive Problems Associated With Schizophrenia

Highlights Schizophrenia occurs more commonly in people who have a variation in a gene called CHRNA5. This variant in gene CHRNA5, leads to hypofrontality which causes most cognit...

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New Signaling Pathway For Opioid Drugs

New Signaling Pathway For Opioid Drugs

Highlights Opioid drugs are pain relieving drugs that act by blocking the signals in the brain. New signaling pathway involves activation of opioid receptors in the immune cells. ...

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Marijuana Increases Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder

Marijuana Increases Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder

Highlights A research team has found that excessive alcohol use that leads to alcohol use disorder is influenced by the use of marijuana. There are other risk facto...

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Smartphone Gaming App to Help Quit Smoking

Smartphone Gaming App to Help Quit Smoking

Highlights A new smartphone health app, Cigbreak Free, that uses games to help smokers to quit the habit has been designed. This game contains embedded health messages and behavio...

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Alcohol Abuse Increases the Risk of Heart Diseases

Alcohol Abuse Increases the Risk of Heart Diseases

Highlights Alcohol consumption increases the risk of heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation, heart attack and congestive heart failure. The risk might be gr...

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Darker Your Drink, Severe the Hangover!

Darker Your Drink, Severe the Hangover!

Highlights Hangovers are caused when the levels of alcohol in the bloodstream begins to decrease. It usually sets in ten hours post alcohol consumption and reaches its peak when t...

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