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Biosense Webster, Inc., a worldwide leader in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias, announces that more than 10 patients have now been enrolled in the CLARITY-study, comparing the efficacy, safety and efficiency of CARTO 3 System guided radiofrequency ablation using the NAVISTAR THERMOCOOL catheter versus fluoroscopy guided radiofrequency ablation using the Pulmonary Vein Ablation catheter (Ablation Frontiers, Medtronic) in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.
A behavioral study has found that motivational text messages sent to smokers' mobile phones can double their chances of giving up tobacco. The "txt2stop" trial at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and funded by the Medical Research Council tested the effects of inspirational text messages designed to encourage quitting on almost 3,000 smokers. Participants were twice as likely to banish their habit as another group sent texts unrelated to smoking.
New research showing that thrill-seeking teenagers are especially susceptible to fruit-flavored cigarettes is in line with the recent ban on the sale of flavored cigarettes by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in September 2009. According to the FDA, the ban, authorized by the new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, is part of a national effort by the FDA to reduce smoking, which is the leading preventable cause of death in America.
Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
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