Los Angeles crackdown on counterfeit Viagra and Cialis
Just miles from the popular Los Angeles International Airport – the airport more commonly known as ‘LAX’ and used by countless celebrities – lies a warehouse and a federal officer sat beside an X-ray...
View ArticleSmokers are encouraged to join the Stoptober challenge
For the second consecutive year, the anti-smoking campaign ‘Stoptober’ will be running and aimed at encouraging smokers to quit smoking for 28 days in October. Public Health England (PHE) is behind the...
View ArticleWebsite showing ghastly effects of smoking is launched as Stoptober enters...
As we enter the final seven days of the Stoptober challenge, Medical Specialists Pharmacy would like to say a huge well done to the thousands of you who have made it this far and good luck in your...
View ArticleUnder-18s to be banned from buying e-cigarettes
The government has announced it is pressing ahead with plans to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to those under the age of 18. E-cigarettes are used by around 1.3 million people in the UK, intended to...
View ArticleSmokers encouraged to quit for No Smoking Day on 12 March
Medical Specialists Pharmacy is proudly supporting the next annual No Smoking Day, which will be taking place on 12 March 2014. Whether it is for this yearly awareness day, month-long campaigns such as...
View ArticleAsthma and premature births down 10% thanks to the smoking ban
The ban of smoking in public places has helped to reduce premature births and severe child childhood asthma attacks by 10%, according to research from Europe and the United States and published in the...
View ArticleFear of weight gain preventing smokers from quitting
Most people are in agreement that smoking is bad. There are thousands of toxic chemicals contained within just a single cigarette that can cause a variety of different types of cancer and heart...
View ArticleCancer patients could be more nicotine dependent with e-cigarettes
A new study into e-cigarettes has put further fuel onto the fire about just how useful a tool they are in helping smokers successfully quit smoking, after researchers found cancer patients who used...
View ArticleExploding e-cigarettes putting lives at risk
The safety of electronic cigarettes has been plunged into further doubt after an electronic cigarette user almost had his legs blown off due to one of the devices ‘exploding like a grenade’. Medics...
View ArticleMedical Specialists® Pharmacy offer 6 tips for a healthy heart for National...
With Valentine’s Day less than two weeks away, the second month of the year often causes pandemonium as couples all around the world, more than at any other time, use all the love in their heart’s to...
View ArticleMedical Specialists® inundated with requests for smoking cessation treatment...
Medical Specialists® Pharmacy are proud to support this year’s national No Smoking Day, which will be taking place on 11 March. For those not aware of its origins, No Smoking Day is an annual campaign...
View ArticleAnti-smoking drug Champix does not cause serious side effects, says study
Anti-smoking drug Champix (varenicline) has received some bad press in the 9 years since it’s 2006 introduction in Britain, with complaints of the smoking cessation treatment being linked to...
View ArticleStoptober is Back! Medical Specialists® Pharmacy urge the nation’s smokers to...
Let’s be honest – there is never a bad time to stop smoking. Smokers can kick the habit on any given day or week, but if there is an ideal time to try and with a boosted chance of giving … Continue...
View ArticleSmokers urged to quit for No Smoking Day by Medical Specialists® Pharmacy
Approximately 10 million people in the UK smoke (a sixth of the population), and frankly that is 10 million too many in Medical Specialists® Pharmacy’s opinion. After all, smoking-related conditions...
View ArticleAre smokers now a dying breed? Shocking stats reveal all…
Medical Specialists® Pharmacy has experienced a recent surge in the number of people coming to us enquiring about our smoking cessation treatment Champix, so much so that we have had to bolster our...
View ArticleMedical Specialists® Stoptober Smoking Survey gives Shocking Results
October may be more commonly known as the month of Halloween, but here is something even scarier: Half of all regular smokers will die as a result of their habit. Last year alone around 96,000 people...
View ArticleIt’s Never Too Late to Stop Smoking! Find Out Why…
For those in retirement age or approaching such a stage in their life and think “what’s the point of stopping smoking now?”, it is actually never too late to give up and enjoy a boost in health,...
View ArticleWorld No Tobacco Day Highlights Huge Environmental Damage from Smoking
Today – the 31st May – is the annual World No Tobacco Day. Pioneered by the World Health Organization (WHO), the stop smoking campaign aims to highlight just how tobacco can impact the development of...
View ArticleNearly Time to Ditch the Cigarettes for Stoptober!
With October rapidly approaching it is that time of year again where smokers all around country make a valiant attempt to kick the cigarettes into touch for 28 days. Yes, it is the return of the...
View ArticleSmoking May Actually Cause Weight GAIN!
Many people that smoke have carried on through their life without wanting to stop smoking on fear of gaining weight. Indeed, a long popular belief from smokers is that the moment they ditch the...
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