International Meeting on Catania Conversation discussed Public Health and future opportunities for 2021

"Vaping and COVID19: What are some of the key scientific learnings for public health and vaping as we prepare for 2021? What can we do better from patients’ perspectives?" the title of the event of last 16th December, where some of the most important names in the field of Harm Reduction discussed different topics, including the Public Health Response to the Covid-19 pandemic

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Lockdown and social distancing are inadequate: to mitigate the Covid-19 pandemic we need to return to primary and secondary prevention

A recent international partnership between researchers from Europe, USA, UK and Russia has investigated the effects of the pandemic mitigation strategies. Community and home care are the only viable strategies that could achieve the goal of pandemic mitigation

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Vaping: The sensory experience that improves your chances to quit smoking

Vaping has revealed effective where official therapies failed. What is the secret of its success? A study by researchers Di Piazza, Caponnetto, Askin, Christos, Maglia, Gautam, Roche and Polosa tries to explain the reasons behind its success. The results are on the prestigious international Harm Reduction Journal.

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Unict and internationalisation: Polosa and Tomaselli as guest editors involved in a special lissue on Covid-19

The prestigious international journal "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health" designated Prof. Riccardo Polosa and Prof. Venera Tomaselli of the CoEHAR of the University of Catania Guest Editors of the Special Issue of the magazine on COVID -19

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CoEHAR’s study confirms beneficial effects of ecig on copd smokers

CoEHAR's researchers have just published the longest clinical follow-up of E-cigarette users ever reported. The study “COPD smokers who switched to e-cigarettes: health outcomes at 5-year follow up” explores the long term effects of E-cigarette use in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and confirms that regular use can ameliorate objective and subjective COPD and is long lasting

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