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Smoking stripes longevity

Scientists have devised that each cigarette cuts on average 12 minutes off the life of a smoker. It is based on the difference in life expectancy between smokers and non-smokers and an estimate of the total number of cigarettes a regular male smoker might consume in a lifetime. ....The researchers, from the Univeristy of Bristol, took their figures on life expectancy from a major study of the imp...

Time is ripe to take stock of depression

It’s not difficult to take a guess on what could be top of the heap among Britain’s maladies. Depression and chronic anxiety, now out in the open as a common affliction// , needs urgent remedy, because this is one mental health issue that is threatening to become a social problem. ....It is estimated that nearly one million people avail an incapacity benefit due to this debilitating ailment that...

Take Heart If Your Parents Died at a Ripe Old Age: Framingham Heart Study

Researchers from the decades long Framingham Heart Study, say that if at least one of your parents have lived till 85 years, there is a good chance// of you having lessened the risk factors of heart disease. Yet, don’t lose heart, the researchers continue, if your parents died young, diet and exercise may well do the trick. .. The results from the study published in the Archives of Internal Med...

New Drug Application Submitted for Investigational Antibiotic Doripenem

RARITAN, N.J., Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C., (J&JPRD) announced that it has submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) to the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for doripenem, an investigational carbapenem antibiotic for the treatment of nosocomial pneumonia, a pneumonia that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare setting. ......According to t...