Tobacco industry youth anti-smoking programs designed to promote the industry, study shows
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Philip Morris tobacco company launched a hidden campaign in the 1990s to change the standards of scientific proof needed to demonstrate that secondhand smoke was dangerous...
The smoking rate could be cut dramatically across the U.S. if political will is applied to do it. In California, the rate could be cut to ten percent in just five years, according to an analysis by University of California, San Francisco researchers.
A recent study at the University of California, San Francisco assessed specialists' attitudes toward primary care physicians in the gatekeeper role, finding the attitudes are influenced by practice settings and by financial interests that may be threatened by referral restrictions.
A UCSF-led team is reporting striking results in mice that indicate that a molecule known as HIF-1 could prove an effective target for inducing the growth of blood vessels in oxygen-starved tissues.