Amy Lindberg spent 26 years in the Navy and she still walked like it—with intention, like her chin had someplace to be. But around 2017, her right foot stopped following orders. Lindberg and her ...

Nicotine quickly enters your bloodstream. Your liver then breaks down nicotine into several byproducts, primarily cotinine. Depending on what you're testing, such as a blood, urine, saliva, or hair ...

The gas station across the street from my house in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is filled with most of my guilty pleasures: energy drinks, candy, chips, and an entire wall of nicotine ...

It began with a bad habit. Dean, a 21-year-old pre-med student based out of California, had been using Rogue nicotine pouches for about a year when, one day at the gym, he discovered that the ...

Frequent hypnic jerks that disrupt sleep can be a side effect of some prescription medications, particularly antidepressants ...

Parkinson’s is a progressive degenerative disease of the nervous system that usually starts between age 45 and 65. Although it can be caused by prior head trauma, it most often is due to depletion of ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Many Americans take a dark view of nicotine ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is urging nicotine pouch manufacturers to use child-resistant packaging on their products. This comes as a rise in nicotine pouch exposure cases has been reported ...

Oral nicotine product Zyn has skyrocketed in sales and popularity. In April 2024, WSJ explored how this growth has brought controversy and shifted the landscape of the U.S. tobacco market. Photo ...

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) have analyzed various bodies of water in Berlin for traces of nicotine. They detected nicotine in all of the ...

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“The hypothesis is that a long-term, low-burning infection might lead to these sorts of diseases,” such as Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders, says Barbara Hanson, a researcher ...