Items Tagged ‘nicotine addiction’
May 25, 2018
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights for May 25, 2018
New York Times, Me and My Numb Thumb: A Tale of Tech, Texts and Tendons by Nellie Bowles — …My doctor, who had me make a painful fist, said that I might have something called De Quervain’s Tendinosis, which affects tendons on the thumb side of the wrist and is caused […]
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June 29, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
June 29, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations NPR […]
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June 28, 2012
Vaccine Shows Promise for Nicotine Addiction
A one-dose vaccine aimed at preventing nicotine addiction showed promise in studies on mice, researchers said Wednesday. In the study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers inserted a gene for a nicotine antibody into the liver cells of mice, preventing most of the nicotine given to the animals from reaching the brain, where […]
Tags: Dr. Richard Hurt, nicotine addiction, Science Translational Medicine, vaccine, Wall Street Journal