ISLAMABAD: Health experts on Sunday said that larger pictorial labels are more effective in informing about the dangers of smoking.

Following a controversy sparked recently over remarks by some Members of Parliament on tobacco use, a group of leading film-makers is seeking to dilute the strong tobacco control measures undertake

Lung adenocarcinomas from never smokers account for approximately 15 to 20% of all lung cancers and these tumors often carry genetic alterations that are responsive to targeted therapy. Here we examined mutation status in 10 oncogenes among 89 lung adenocarcinomas from never smokers. We also screened for oncogene fusion transcripts in 20 of the 89 tumors by RNA-Seq. In total, 62 tumors had mutations in at least one of the 10 oncogenes, including EGFR (49 cases, 55%), K-ras (5 cases, 6%), BRAF (4 cases, 5%), PIK3CA (3 cases, 3%), and ERBB2 (4 cases, 5%).

ISLAMABAD: Medical practitioners have said that every year over 80,000 Pakistanis get different heart diseases and after every two minutes a countryman suffers from heart attack.

RESIDENTS in Beijing can report on indoor smoking in public venues after the smoking ban takes effect in June, a government official said today.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Starting in the fall semester, the University of Iowa will become the first of the state's three public universities to ban all forms of tobacco on its campus.

The Supreme Court today agreed to advance its hearing and ruling on a plea for strict implementation of the laws for display of pictorial warnings to discourage the use of tobacco and its products

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria exposed to cigarette smoke became even more resistant to kill

The Union health ministry’s decision to defer the implementation of a notification for increasing the size of pictorial health warning on cigarette packets and various other tobacco products has no

The Health Ministry today postponed indefinitely the enforcement of tougher anti-tobacco pack warnings it had notified in October last year for implementation from April 1 this year.

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