Nicotine Metabolite Shows Promise for Improving Memory, Protecting Brain Cells

site URL - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/mcog-nms110703.php

Site description: Report that a nicotine metabolite may improve memory and protect brain cells from diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The researcher is Dr. Jerry J. Buccafusco, director of the Alzheimer's Research Center at the Medical College of Georgia.




Topic: Top/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/Brain_and_Nervous_System

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Other resource N5 International Center for the Integration of Health and Spiritualityhttp://www.icihs.org/ International Center for the Integration of Health and SpiritualityTop/Health/Organizations (ICIHS) Describes their goal of integrating health and spirituality. A multi-disciplinary collaboration with organizations, researchers, educators, clinicians, and patients.
Other resource N6 International Medical Volunteers Associationhttp://www.imva.org International Medical Volunteers AssociationTop/Health/Organizations Provides information about international health volunteer work and helps volunteers and organizations find each other.
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Other resource N8 The Military Health Systemhttp://tricare.osd.mil/ The Military Health SystemTop/Health/Organizations The Official Web Presence of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) and the TRICARE Management Activity.
Other resource N9 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systemshttp://www.amdis.org Association of Medical Directors of Information SystemsTop/Health/Organizations A professional organization dedicated to the promotion, development and sharing of information between physicians responsible for organizationl leadership in information technology.
Other resource N10 Society for Medical and Biological Engineeringhttp://www.smbe.asn.au Society for Medical and Biological EngineeringTop/Health/Organizations Professional organization for biomedical engineering; technical meetings and newsletters.
Other resource N11 Health Resources and Services Administrationhttp://www.hhs.gov/ Health Resources and Services AdministrationTop/Health/Organizations Overview and programs, news room, grants and contracts, calendar of events and information center. Department of Health and Human Services, US Public Health Service.
Other resource N12 Project Hopehttp://www.projecthope.ch/ Project HopeTop/Health/Organizations Active in the field of medical education and training, and in the development of effective and sustainable health care systems in low and middle income countries. Project HOPE's emphasis is on "helping people help themselves."
Other resource N13 ISIPS: International Sharps Prevention Societyhttp://www.isips.org/ ISIPS: International Sharps Prevention SocietyTop/Health/Organizations International group of medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare instituations, and industry professionals joining forces to reduce medical sharps injuries worldwide.
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Other resource N15 Committee for Promoting German Medicine in Foreign Countrieshttp://www.committee-german-medicine.de/home.html Committee for Promoting German Medicine in Foreign CountriesTop/Health/Organizations/Medicine Information for patients in all parts of the world in need of medical treatment. Aims to strengthen international co-operation in the medical sector.
Other resource N16 PBS TeacherSource: Health and Fitnesshttp://pbs.org/teachersource/health.htm PBS TeacherSource: Health and FitnessTop/Health/Education/High_School_Health Over 300 free resources and lesson plans to help instruct students how to make informed decisions about their health.
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Other resource N19 Navy Health Bookhttp://www.vnh.org/NHB/NHBHome.html Navy Health BookTop/Health/Education/Patient_Education General and comprehensive information for patient education which includes Health Promotion, Adult Medicine and Pediatrics. Compiled from the HEALTHWATCH articles in the Naval Service Medical News.
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Other resource N25 Patient Medical Assistanthttp://www.sparks.org/pma/ Patient Medical AssistantTop/Health/Education/Patient_Education Dr. Michael Cole's quick and simple guidelines for common medical problems.
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Other resource N62 WebMD: Alcohol May Raise Risk of Irregular Heartbeathttp://my.webmd.com/content/article/95/103221.htm WebMD: Alcohol May Raise Risk of Irregular HeartbeatTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Alcoholic_Beverages/Detriments Study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that drinking alcohol on a regular basis may slightly raise men's risk of developing a type of irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation.
Other resource N63 MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia: Alcohol Withdrawalhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000764.htm MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia: Alcohol WithdrawalTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Alcoholic_Beverages/Detriments/Alcohol_Withdrawal_Syndrome Overview, including definition, causes, incidence, risk factors, symptoms, signs, and treatment. Provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Other resource N64 South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Usehttp://www.scprevents.org/web/infosite/readroom/clearing.html South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco UseTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects "Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs combined." Summary of the effects of tobacco use.
Other resource N65 Health Effects of Smokinghttp://www.umdnj.edu/rspthweb/bibs/smoking.htm Health Effects of SmokingTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects Bibliography of research.
Other resource N66 Smoking: The Health Effectshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm Smoking: The Health EffectsTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects Smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. Half of all smoking deaths are in middle age. Article from the BBC news summarizes.
Other resource N67 Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tabacco Usehttp://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28813-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tabacco UseTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada.
Other resource N68 Cigar and Pipe Smoking are as Dangerous as Cigarettes to Periodontal Healthhttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2001-01/AAoP-Caps-0401101.php Cigar and Pipe Smoking are as Dangerous as Cigarettes to Periodontal HealthTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/Mouth_and_Throat "Pierce Brosnan and Demi Moore have appeared on covers of cigar magazines...What the covers don't show is models with missing teeth." Yet recent research shows that cigars, pipes, and cigarettes all damage periodontal health and cause tooth loss.
Other resource N69 Effect of Cigar Smoking on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cancer in Menhttp://www.oncolink.com/library/article.cfm?c=2&s=34&id=474 Effect of Cigar Smoking on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cancer in MenTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Cigar_and_Pipe_Smoking Summary of June 1999 article in the New England Journal of Medicine covers what cigars do to the heart, lungs, and throat.
Other resource N70 Low-Tar Cigarettes: No Benefit to Public Healthhttp://newscenter.cancer.gov/pressreleases/lowtar.html Low-Tar Cigarettes: No Benefit to Public HealthTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Cigarette_Smoking Millions of Americans smoke "low-tar," "mild," or "light" cigarettes, believing they're less hazardous. But scientific experts conclude that public health has not been served by changes in cigarette design and manufacturing over the last 50 years; this paper explains.
Other resource N71 AMA Warns About Misleading Tobacco Adshttp://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2001/11/26/edsa1126.htm AMA Warns About Misleading Tobacco AdsTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Cigarette_Smoking American Medical Association warns that ads for Omni cigarettes are making dangerously misleading claims, and that in fact there's no scientific data that show an Omni smokers is less likely to develop lung cancer.
Other resource N72 Oral Health America: Smokeless Not A Safe Alternativehttp://www.oralhealthamerica.org/pr09.htm Oral Health America: Smokeless Not A Safe AlternativeTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Smokeless_Tobacco The tacts on spit tobacco, in response to an attempt by U.S. Tobacco to promote its tobacco product as a safe alternative to cigarettes.
Other resource N73 Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the Canhttp://quitsmoking.about.com/library/weekly/aa042699.htm?once=true& Spit Tobacco: Oral Cancer by the CanTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Smokeless_Tobacco Short article outlines the medical facts: half of all oral cancer patients are alive 5 years after diagnosis.
Other resource N74 Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? Nohttp://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.745/healthissue_detail.asp Would a Switch from Cigarettes to Smokeless Tobacco Benefit Public Health? NoTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Smokeless_Tobacco Presents the case against recommending that smokers switch to smokeless tobacco products.
Other resource N75 Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smokehttp://www.cleanlungs.com/education/ Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand SmokeTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke List of links on the subject.
Other resource N76 British Medical Association on Secondhand Smokehttp://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Smokefree British Medical Association on Secondhand SmokeTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke Medical report concludes that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease, kills thousands of people in the UK, and there is no safe level of exposure.
Other resource N77 Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke Killshttp://www.mmaonline.net/publicEdu/tobaccommaletter071801.cfm Minnesota Medical Association: Secondhand Smoke KillsTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke Letter to public officials from the Minnesota Medical Association outlines the health hazards of secondhand smoke.
Other resource N78 Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Healthhttp://www.nphp.gov.au/workprog/lrn/smoking.htm Secondhand Smoke: Effects on HealthTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke Presents the medical evidence, reviews the record of acculating evidence, summarizes other reviews, and itemizes the disease caused by secondhand smoke.
Other resource N79 Health Effects of Secondhand Smokehttp://www.ocat.org/healtheffects/ Health Effects of Secondhand SmokeTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke Characterizes the risk, provides a research bibliography, breaks down the exposure by toxins and carcinogens, and enumerates the scientific bodies that have concluded that secondhand smoke causes disease.
Other resource N80 Health Effects of Secondhand Smokehttp://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/10/index.html Health Effects of Secondhand SmokeTop/Health/Specific_Substances/Tobacco/Effects/By_Source_of_Exposure/Secondhand_Smoke NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.

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