Many women are encouraged to quit smoking when they become pregnant using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) whether as gum, transdermal patches, nasal spray or lozenges. But new research from Western University in London, Canada, has shown ...
Tags: Smoking Mothers, Babies, Overweight
Researchers say they have pinpointed a preservative found in many popular wet wipes and baby wipes as the cause of allergic skin reactions in some children. Reports of reactions have ranged from disfiguring patches to crusting, swelling, ...
Tags: Baby Wipes, Preservative, Rashes
Innovative adhesive technology published as a cover feature in the high impact journal, Science Translational Medicine Gecko Biomedical, a French medical device company developing 'bio-inspired' biodegradable surgical glues and patches ...
Tags: Gecko Biomedical, bio-inspired, biodegradable surgical glues
Patching up holes in blood vessels and the heart's walls may become easier with a new light-activated glue. This adhesive, described in the journal Science Translational Medicine, sets in seconds when exposed to UV light. The new ...
Tags: Light-Activated Glue, Chemicals
Researchers have developed a new type of surgical "glue" that they say could help treat children born with heart defects, such as a hole in the heart. The adhesive can quickly stick biodegradable patches inside a beating heart. Unlike ...
A starfish has an eye at the end of each arm. While scientists have known about the existence of these eyes for about two hundred years, until now, they haven't been able to find out what starfish can see or what starfish use their eyes ...
Tags: starfish, morphological study, compound eyes, habitat
With much of the U.S. frozen by a severe cold snap, many must walk on slippery ice and experts suggest walking in a shuffle motion to maintain balance. Orthopaedic surgeons at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai suggest those ...
Tags: Healthcare, Healthcare Tips, Balance on Ice
It's the new year, a time when a smokers' thoughts often turn to quitting. Some people may use that promise of a fresh start to trade their tobacco cigarettes for an electronic cigarette, a device that attempts to mimic the look and feel ...
Tags: smokers, electronic cigarette, quit smoking
Smokers in England who want to stop smoking are three times more likely to succeed if they see a trained advisor than if they try by themselves, according to a new study published online today in the medical journal Addiction. Worryingly, ...
These varieties were seeded into a field known to have higher levels of clubroot. The variety on the left is resistant, the variety on the right is not. Clubroot resistance is an important part of clubroot management, and growers are ...
Tags: clubroot, clubroot resistance, clubroot-resistant varieties
Smokers who work with a counselor specially trained to help them quit -- along with using medications or nicotine patches or gum -- are three times more likely to kick the habit than smokers who try to quit without any help, a large new ...
There's good news for people trying to quit smoking: Aids such as nicotine gums and patches or smoking cessation drugs such as Chantix won't harm the heart. The new findings may ease concerns that some products that help people "butt out" ...
Tags: quit smoking, nicotine gums, smoking cessation drugs and patches, Chantix
Instead of our regular look at the most read stories on just-style during the week, we thought a fitting end to the year would be to take a look at the top stories on just-style in 2013. Garment factory disasters, strikes, safety ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
On any given day cybercriminals and nation states are in possession of as many as 100 zero-day software exploits known only to them, NSS Labs has calculated using the commercial vulnerability market as a baseline. NSS Labs research ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
The new range includes boxes that can carry between two and eight cupcakes and the box designs are unique to the the Rutland-based company behind the range, Bakerlot. The boxes feature window biodegradable patches made from Polylactic ...