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No clear evidence that nicotine ‘preloading’ helps smokers to quit: Any beneficial effect may have been masked by reduction in use of smoking cessation drug

There is insufficient evidence to show that using nicotine patches for four weeks before a quit attempt (known as “preloading”)

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Floridians took Zika threat more seriously than rest of US — but still most did nothing: A stronger community response is needed to protect those at risk, researchers say

Threatened by the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2016, Florida residents felt more susceptible than others in the United States to

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New study sheds light on the opioid epidemic and challenges prevailing views about this public health crisis: Fatal drug overdoses in young non-Hispanic white adults accounted for 62 percent of mortality rate growth among midlife non-Hispanic whites in the US between 1999 and 2015, according to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine sheds new light on the sharp rise in fatal drug

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