Hospital Testing Smoking Vaccine
Medication Aims To Keep Nicotine From Brain
POSTED: 8:16 am EDT May 31, 2006
UPDATED: 10:04 am EDT May 31, 2006
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BOSTON -- If you've tried everything to kick the smoking habit with no success, you may want to give an experimental new vaccine a shot. Massachusetts General Hospital is one of 10 centers nationwide testing a new vaccine called NicVax. It's designed to keep nicotine from reaching the brain -- in effect, taking away the pleasure people feel from smoking. A number of injections are needed. Preliminary tests show the vaccine is safe and may help people quit.
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