Tobacco Consumption

Despite “significant stressors” that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic, substance use decreased among adolescents and young adults in 2020 compared with pre-pandemic years, according to researchers.

From 2008 to 2017, there was a temporal increase in the prevalence of all forms of psychoactive substance use disorders in patients hospitalized for HF, according to research in Circulation: Heart Failure.

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BARCELONA — The use of a microRNA blood test in combination with low-dose CT screening reduced unnecessary repeat imaging and demonstrated value as a tool to assess an individuals’ lung cancer risk profile, according to results of the bioMILD trial presented during the presidential symposium of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer World Conference on Lung Cancer.