The third phase of the Replica project is in the prime of its activity: CoEHAR researchers successfully replicated the study published by Rudd and colleagues in 2020 and the data obtained not only show slight or no cytotoxic, mutagenic and genotoxic effects induced by the e-cigarette aerosol, but the work by researchers of Catania covered some methodological gaps and limitations in the original work.
"Risk reduction as a public health strategy to eradicate cigarette smoking", is going to be discussed in Rome on Wednesday 9th November as part of a conference promoted by Motor Health in the "Sala Cristallo" of Hotel Nazionale in Piazza Montecitorio.
Among the distinguished speakers, also the expected speech by prof. Riccardo Polosa, founder of CoEHAR.
Harm Reduction strategies were the subject of a speech by prof. Polosa during the National Congress of the Italian Society of Internal Medicine. Focus of this year edition, the management of…
During the 2022 edition of GTNF, the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum, Prof. Riccardo Polosa, founder of the CoEHAR, was part of an intense and engaging panel on vaping and tobacco policies at the panel “Banned! Is Prohibition Back?”.
Pasquale Caponnetto, CoEHAR member, unveiled two brand new research project during the XXX Congress of the Italian Association of Psychology, Genesis and Ceasefire. Two projects concerning mental health, smoking addiction and combustion-free products
Just published in the journal Internal and Emergency Medicine a commentary that illustrates the potential of machine learning in analyzing and processing large amounts of clinical and laboratory information, using…
The prestigious American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine published a comment by researchers from CoEHAR and the University of Messina regarding a US studies that concluded that “former and current e-cigarette use was associated with higher odds of developing wheezing-related respiratory symptoms”. According to the Italian authors “the significance of the findings needs careful review”.
The In Silico Science research team conducted a series of robust and exhaustive systematic reviews to bring forward the best available evidence on the health effects of e-cigarettes on human health developing data for clinicians
Incredibly, people close to an infected vaper using an e-cigarette in home or restaurant scenarios face a one percent increase of risk of contagion compared to the control case of a normal breathing (without vaping) inside closed spaces. This relative added risk becomes 5-17 percent for high intensity vaping and up to 260 percent for speaking for various periods and coughing.
