Cardiology

How using cigars, pipes or smokeless tobacco can harm your heart

The data on the health effects from smoking cigarettes has been clear for decades. Today, tobacco use causes nearly 1 in 5 deaths each year in the U.S. While many of these deaths are cancer-related, researchers have found ...

Cardiology

Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack

Marijuana is now legal in many places, but is it safe? Two new studies add to mounting evidence that people who use cannabis are more likely to suffer a heart attack than people who do not use the drug, even among younger ...

Oncology & Cancer

Alcohol and cancer risk: What we know

Most people know about the connection between cigarettes and cancer risk, but does drinking cause cancer? It's something rarely discussed, despite years of evidence that alcohol increases cancer risk.

Addiction

Optimizing public placement of naloxone kits to save lives

Making it easy to access naloxone kits to reverse the effects of opioid poisoning will help save lives, according to research published in theCanadian Medical Association Journal) that looks at the best placements for these ...

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