Smokers' Vaccine
By: Charlotte Ames
Updated: June 28, 2012
A new vaccine could help smokers quit for good. Researchers in New York tested the vaccine on mice and found a single dose protects against nicotine addiction for an entire lifetime.
The vaccine introduces antibodies that attack the nicotine before it reaches the brain or heart. It needs a few more rounds of animal tests before it can be tested on people. The study is in the journal, Science Translational Medicine.
The vaccine introduces antibodies that attack the nicotine before it reaches the brain or heart. It needs a few more rounds of animal tests before it can be tested on people. The study is in the journal, Science Translational Medicine.
Comments
Douglas perhaps if the goverment didn't allow the cigarette Companys to put so much drugs in them, may be those dummies would be able to quit.
Dorothy W.
June 29, 2012 at 9:57 pm
Perhaps if the dummies would quit buying cigarettes it would help too.......
Douglas S.
June 29, 2012 at 11:29 am
Charlotte Ames is the area's only local Health Reporter and brings you the latest medical health news weeknights. You can catch Healthcast on WTAJ News at 5:00pm and her Health Headlines report on WTAJ News at 5:30pm.