Smoking Soon After Waking Could Increase Your Risk Of Lung Cancer New research from the US suggests that smoking soon after waking could increase even a light smoker's risk of lung cancer, because the shorter the time between waking and having a first cigarette, no matter how many you smoke a day, the higher your levels of circulating cotinine, a derivative of nicotine that is made in the body and which has been linked to higher risk of lung cancer...
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Professional Leadership Body Criticises Consultation On Future Regulatory Standards For PharmacyThe three National
Pharmacy Boards of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, which will represent pharmacists once the demerger of the Society takes place in spring 2010, have strongly criticised both the content of the future regulatory standards for
pharmacy and the manner in which the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE) consultation on those standards has taken place...
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLong-Term BEXXAR(R) Data Demonstrate Overall SurvivalGlaxoSmithKline announced updated long-term survival data from two Phase II studies of BEXXAR® (tositumomab and iodine I-131 tositumomab) used in either patients with previously untreated cancer of the immune system (follicular lymphoma) or in patients with cancer of the lymphocytes (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, NHL) that no longer responded to rituximab...
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