Month: August 2015

UK study endorses ‘game-changing’ e-cigarettes for first time

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A woman exhales vapour from an e-cigarette outside the offices of British e-cigarette manufacturer Totally Wicked in BlackburnBy Angus Berwick LONDON (Reuters) – Health officials in Britain have for the first time endorsed e-cigarettes, saying they are 95 percent safer than tobacco equivalents and even suggesting doctors should be able to prescribe the "game-changing" devices to smokers trying to quit. E-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine-laced vapour but contain no tobacco, have surged in popularity in recent years but health bodies have so far been wary of advocating them as a safer alternative. Governments from California to India have tried to regulate their use more strictly, many fearing they are a gateway to tobacco smoking among teenagers, and the World Health Organization has also called for curbs on the devices.

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Early life adversity and later depression for teens

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By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – Tough experiences before age six, like family instability or abuse, are tied to changes in brain structure and to a higher risk of anxiety or depression, according to a study of mother-son pairs in England. “Early adversity increases later symptoms of depression or anxiety, which, in turn, can associate with variation in cortical structure,” said senior author Edward D. Barker of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London. “Most children will experience a degree of adversity, but this is not necessarily harmful,” Barker told Reuters Health by email.
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