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Carbon ultrafine particles accelerate lung cancer progression
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
While it may seem common knowledge that smoking is bad for your lungs, if and how ultrafine particles present in cigarette smoke impact the development and progression of lung cancer remains unclear. Working with animal models, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine sought to find how air
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Bangalore-Howrah Duranto Express suffers brake binding in Andhra, no injur
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Initially, a fire was suspected, but the public relations branch of the South Western Railway (SWR) issued a press statement later, clarifying that the train had suffered a brake binding.
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Russia-Ukraine conflict to blame for fewer migratory birds in Haridwar thi
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
"Their mating season started a few months ago. Due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, the heat, smoke and toxic dust in the air must have affected them in a big way. I fear that many of them might even have died," globally renowned ornithologist Dinesh Bhatt said.
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Reduced-nicotine cigarettes make anxious smokers smoke less
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Lowering the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels may reduce smoking without worsening mental health in smokers with mood or anxiety disorders, according to Penn State College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School researchers. They said reducing nicotine content in cigar
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Alarming rise in lung cancer amongst non-smokers, women and youngsters - S
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The study conducted by a team led by Dr Arvind Kumar from Medanta hospital observed that an increasing number of patients presenting in the outpatient clinic were non-smokers of a relatively younger age group.
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Air pollution causing more disability than tobacco smoke: Ex-AIIMS Directo
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Dr Guleria, who is also HOD of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine and sleep disorders while speaking to ANI said, "it is causing more disability than even tobacco smoke. We talk a lot about smoking, but not about using tobacco. But now the burden of disability has shifted more towards a
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Delhi air pollution: Simple dos and don'ts to stay healthy when there's sm
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The smoke in the air due to industrialization and scenarios like farm fires when merged with fog, especially in winter create smog that comes with a bundle of severe conditions in humans, and animals and has the capability to kill plants. Smog has a direct effect on the respiratory system
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Smoking, vaping have similar negative health impacts; dual product use may
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Two related studies, one in humans and the other in rats, found that the cardiovascular effects of cigarettes and e-cigarettes are strikingly similar, and these harmful effects on blood vessel function are likely caused by airway irritation due to inhalation of a foreign substance, rather th
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What are the "dirty bombs" that Russia claims Ukraine will use?
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A dirty bomb works completely differently and cannot create an atomic blast. Instead, a dirty bomb uses dynamite or other explosives to scatter radioactive dust, smoke, or other material in order to cause radioactive contamination.
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Most women reduce smoking after knowing about their pregnancy: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The study revealed how pregnant smokers reduced their smoking after knowing about their pregnancy.
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DGCA investigating into 'smoke in cabin' on Goa-Hyderabad flight: SpiceJet
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 17 (ANI): Airline SpiceJet on Monday said the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was investigating into the incident of 'smoke in cabin' in one of the airline's aircraft on October 12.
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Nicotine dose in one cigarette blocks estrogen production in women's brain
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], October 17 (ANI): The amount of nicotine in one cigarette inhibits women's brains from producing estrogen. This may explain a variety of behavioural differences in smokers, including the reason why women have a higher resistance to quitting than males. The ECNP Congress in
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