Intensive telephone-based cessation counseling results in improved smoking quit rates

Offering intensive, weekly telephone-based cessation counseling along with nicotine replacement for people who smoke and who were undergoing screening for lung cancer resulted in over a two-fold greater cigarette quit rate compared to people who received minimal counseling and nicotine replacement, according to results of a national, randomized trial conducted by investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues.

Study reveals benefits of hybrid working for disabled workers but some fear choice between health and career progression

Eighty-five percent of disabled workers in the UK say they are more productive working from home, new research by the Work Foundation reveals.

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Webb telescope to reveal earliest galaxies after Big Bang

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is poised to reveal some of the earliest galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, the White House said Monday, as anticipation builds for the powerful observatory's first images.

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Entombed together: Rare fossil flower and parasitic wasp make for amber artwork

Oregon State University fossil research has revealed an exquisite merger of art and science: a long-stemmed flower of a newly described plant species encased in a 30-million-year-old tomb together with a parasitic wasp.

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