Long term treatment with nicotine patches for around six months is more likely to help smokers quit and continue to abstain after a lapse, compared with shorter eight-week therapies, US research in the Annals of Internal Medicine (152:144) shows.
Replacement for ADRAC committee
The TGA's new Advisory Committee on the Safety of Medicines (ACSOM), which replaces the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC) will be chaired by pharmacoepidemiologist Professor Emily Banks from ANU.
Pregnancy memory lapse myth
The belief that pregnancy and motherhood leads to a decline in cognitive functioning does not stack up, according to new research from the Australian National University published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (196: 126-132).
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