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(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study has found that smokers who take multivitamins offset their healthy behavior by smoking more cigarettes.

(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study published in the American Journal on Addictions reveals that illicit use of HGH (human growth hormone) has become common among young American male weightlifters.

(Wiley-Blackwell) According to the first update of the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society's guidelines on preventing falls in older persons since 2001, interventions for preventing falls should include an exercise component and a number of new assessments should be used, including; feet and footwear, fear of falling, and ability to carry out daily living activities.

A summary of the guidelines are published today in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

(Wiley-Blackwell) A new study published today in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that those at highest risk to drink alcohol post-transplant, especially in patterns that will damage their health, can be identified potentially preventing relapse.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Researchers surveyed 55 patients who had received a kidney transplant in the last year and 105 who had had surgery in the last one to three years to assess their quality of life.

They discovered that patients had higher levels of social support, felt more positive and were able to cope better in the first year after surgery than one to three years post transplant.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Resurgence of thalidomide use in Africa and South America raises the urgent need to isolate the negative side effects by identifying the drug's "common mechanism."