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Study shows how primary care providers influence smoking cessation
August 5, 2014
Motivational interviewing (MI), a counseling approach that uses a person’s own internal drive to initiate change, can increase the likelihood that a patient will change smoking behaviors, according to a University of Louisville study published in the Southern Medical Journal. The study tested the effects of different approaches to smoking cessation counseling offered in primary care clinics.
Can the tobacco plant be the key to HIV prevention?
August 4, 2014
Researchers from the University of Louisville will lead an international effort to utilize tobacco plants to develop a gel containing a specific protein that will prevent the transmission of HIV. The project is being funded by a five-year, $14.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.