Today the UCSF Industry Documents Library launched a complete redesign of the website that aligns with evolving institutional and user research needs and delivers a new and improved user experience. What’s new? Save the date – On Tuesday, September 9, 1:30 p.m. ET/10:30 a.m. PT UCSF is hosting a live website open house and Q&AContinue reading “UCSF launches new improved Industry Documents Library”
Category Archives: COVID
Cannabis associated with bad COVID-19 outcomes, like tobacco
Many studies have shown that current and past tobacco use is associated with poorer outcomes among people infected with COVID-19. Now Nicholas Griffin and colleagues have published a large well-done study showing that cannabis use is also associated with poorer outcomes among people who have developed COVID-19. The collected data on cannabis and tobacco useContinue reading “Cannabis associated with bad COVID-19 outcomes, like tobacco”
UC publishes oral history of Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San Francisco and Beyond
Today the Oral History Center at the University of California Bancroft Library published an oral history of my career, which is freely available to all. Beginning in elementary school in Cleveland, Ohio, the history follows me through college and gradual school. It discusses my work to develop the emergency protocols for the Apollo 5 missionContinue reading “UC publishes oral history of Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San Francisco and Beyond”
Journals retract two papers because authors did not fully disclose tobacco industry funding through Foundation for a Smoke Free World
The recent National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine workshop report Sponsor Influences on the Quality and Independence of Health Research highlighted the problem of industry obscuring its support of research by funneling the money through intermediaries. Two papers that were funded by Philip Morris International’s Foundation for a Smoke Free World have recently beenContinue reading “Journals retract two papers because authors did not fully disclose tobacco industry funding through Foundation for a Smoke Free World”
Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse
It is well-established that smoking makes COVID-19 worse once you are infected, but the relationship between smoking and COVID infection is not as clear, due to the fact that most studies have not been based on population representative samples. Instead, most have been of tested people at a time that testing was limited and soContinue reading “Heated tobacco products associated with COVID infection and severity in Japan; dual use is worse”
Smokers at higher risk of COVID-19 death, particularly in low and middle income countries
Roengrudee Patanavanich, Tanatorn Siripoon, Salin Amponnavarat and I just published “Active smokers are at higher risk of COVID-19 death: A systematic review and meta-analysis” that finds that, among people diagnosed with COVID-19 both current and former smokers are at increased risk of death from COVID-19. This paper takes advantage of the growing number of studiesContinue reading “Smokers at higher risk of COVID-19 death, particularly in low and middle income countries”
e-cig users have more COVID-19 symptoms
It is well-established that smokers and former smokers who are infected with COVID-19 do worse. (How smoking affects risk of infection is still an open question.) Now, there is evidence that vaping makes COVID worse among people who are infected. David McFadden and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic have published “Symptoms COVID 19 Positive VapersContinue reading “e-cig users have more COVID-19 symptoms”
More evidence that smoking makes COVID-19 worse
Kade Patanavanich and I published a meta-analysis that concluded that a history of smoking was associated with COVID-19 disease progression in August 2020 that was based on 19 papers. We just published an update, “Smoking is associated with worse outcomes of COVID-19 particularly among younger adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis” based on 46 papers.Continue reading “More evidence that smoking makes COVID-19 worse”
Long-established science supports maintaining and expanding smokefree casinos and other environments
While all commercial gaming in Atlantic City, Michigan and Pennsylvania were temporarily smokefree for a period of time because of the COVID-19 pandemic, smoking has resumed as mask mandates have expired. They did so despite the fact that the science on secondhand smoke has been well-accepted for a long time. The casinos have been encouragedContinue reading “Long-established science supports maintaining and expanding smokefree casinos and other environments”
New WHO report highlights falling cigarette use and challenges that new tobacco products pose to public health and implementation of the FCTC
On July 27, 2021 the WHO released the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2021: addressing new and emerging products, its eighth such report. The good news is that it documents solid progress in reducing tobacco use. After over a century of growth, “between 2007 and 2019, smoking rates decreased from a global averageContinue reading “New WHO report highlights falling cigarette use and challenges that new tobacco products pose to public health and implementation of the FCTC”
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