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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
The Availability Of Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities Offering Counseling Services In Asian Languages Varies By Region A new report shows that only 2-percent (291) of the nation's 13,513 substance abuse treatment facilities provide counseling services in various Asian languages. The report also showed that the proportion of facilities offering these services varied by geographic region.	26 May 2011
Profile For Female Drink-Driving Female drink-drivers are more likely to be older, better-educated and divorced, widowed or separated, research has shown.The study by academics at The University of Nottingham found that emotional factors and mental health problems were common triggers in alcohol-related offences committed by women.	26 May 2011
Capella University Launches Online PhD Specialization In Addiction Psychology Capella University, an accredited online university* that has built its reputation by providing high quality online degree programs for working adults, has announced a new Addiction Psychology specialization as part of its PhD in Psychology degree program.	26 May 2011
NMS Labs & Cerilliant Announce Identification Of Major Metabolite Of The Synthetic Cannabinoid JWH-073 In a follow up to the recent announcement of the identification of the "fake pot" JWH-018 metabolite, NMS Labs and Cerilliant Corporation announced today the identification of metabolites for a related drug, JWH-073, also used in the "legal high" products.	26 May 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's Society Comment On Care Quality Commission Inspection, UK The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has identified major failings in the first 12 of its 100 reports into the quality of elderly care in hospitals in England. The report identified three hospitals as failing to meet essential standards required by law.	26 May 2011
Minister Kathleen Lynch Opens The Sonas aPc Conference, Ireland Kathleen Lynch, T.D., Minister of State with responsibility for Older People, today (May 26th 2011), officially opened the third Annual Sonas aPc Conference. The title of the Conference is Living with Dementia: Activity for Meaningful Lives There were over 300 delegates at the gathering which was addressed by a range of national and international experts on innovative new methods of enhancing the lives of those suffering from dementia.	26 May 2011
Alzheimer's Disease Drug Developed At Roskamp Institute Approved For Key Clinical Trial Funding In Europe An international research consortium led by Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) today announced the selection for funding of a large-scale European clinical trial of Nilvadipine, an Alzheimer's disease drug developed at the Roskamp Institute in Sarasota.	26 May 2011
Martyn Runs For Home In The Bupa London 10,000 For Alzheimer's Society The Financial Controller of a care home company has been inspired by some of their residents to raise funds for Alzheimer's Society by taking part in the Bupa London 10,000 on 30 May.Martyn Lainchbury, aged 63 and from Enfield, has worked for the company for almost four years and in the course of his job regularly visits the homes, some of which provide specialist dementia care.	26 May 2011
New Treatments For Alzheimer's Disease Could Result From Discovery Of Recycling Of Alzheimer's Proteins The formation of abnormal strands of protein called amyloid fibrils - associated with two dozen diseases ranging from Alzheimer's to type-2 diabetes - may not be permanent and irreversible as previously thought, scientists are reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.	26 May 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
New Data For Cimzia(R) (Certolizumab Pegol) Showed A Rapid Clinical Response Across A Broad Population Of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients UCB today announced data which showed that the addition of Cimzia® (certolizumab pegol) to current therapy was associated with a rapid and consistent clinical response in a diverse group of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients.	26 May 2011
New Survey Finds Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Value Personalised Goal Setting For Successful Disease Management UCB today announced data that showed patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) believe that personalised goal setting can have a positive impact on their disease management. However, while the majority of patients surveyed (87%) agreed with this, almost as many (73%) stated that their healthcare professional (HCP) did not discuss approaches that achieved personal targets.	26 May 2011
A Targeted Approach To Early Treatment With HUMIRA (Adalimumab) Shows Positive Results For Patients With Early RA Abbott today announced the results of the second period of OPTIMA, the first global study looking at different treatment strategies to achieve positive outcomes in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA).	26 May 2011
Targeted Adalimumab Treatment Can Optimize Long-Term Outcomes For Patients With Early RA Data presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress demonstrated that initial treatment with adalimumab (Humira, ADA) plus methotrexate in early RA patients can provide high levels of disease control in many patients, and may also offer the opportunity to change future treatment options for some.	26 May 2011
Tofacitinib Shown To Be An Efficacious Treatment For Active RA Results of a Phase III study presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress show that at 6 months, 58.3 percent of patients who had previously not responded to treatment with DMARDs, achieved ACR20 response (a 20 percent improvement in symptoms) when treated with the novel oral Janus kinase inhibitor tofacitinib at 10mg BID compared to 31.	26 May 2011
Biologic Treatment Could Change Current Standard Of Care For 160,000 People Living With Rheumatoid Arthritis New data presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism congress demonstrated that RoActemra (tocilizumab) alone had comparable clinical efficacy to RoActemra plus methotrexate (MTX) in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).	26 May 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Young And Middle Aged 'Hit Hardest' By Flu This Winter, UK Young and middle aged adults bore the brunt of influenza this winter with more than 70 per cent of fatal cases hitting this age group, according to figures published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in their annual flu report today (Wednesday).	26 May 2011
Evolution Of Swine Flu Viruses Has Potential To Cause Human Flu Epidemics Although swine influenza viruses usually sicken only pigs, potentially one might also spark a pandemic in people, as occurred with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. Because few long-term studies have surveyed flu viruses in swine, however, gaps exist in what is known about the evolution of swine influenza viruses and the conditions that enable a swine virus to infect humans and cause disease.	26 May 2011

Headache / Migraine News
Migraine Relief From Tinted Specs Precision tinted lenses have been used widely to reduce visual perceptual distortions in poor readers, and are increasingly used for migraine sufferers, but until now the science behind these effects has been unclear.	26 May 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News

New Report: Health Reform Essential To Young Adults-Nearly Half Can't Afford Needed Care, Forty Percent Struggling With Medical Debt Young adults ages 19-29 are struggling to get the health care they need more than almost any other age group, demonstrating the need for Affordable Care Act provisions, some already in place, that will expand health insurance and make it more affordable, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.

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Heart Disease News
Adding Niacin To Statin Treatment Makes No Difference To Heart Attack Or Stroke Risk - Trial Stopped 18 Months Early A clinical trial which compared statin only treatment versus niacin combined with statins was stopped 18 months early because the combination treatment made no difference to the risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke and heart attacks, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute informed today.	26 May 2011
Powerful Tool In Fight To Reduce Stroke Around The World: Ground-Breaking Canadian Blood Pressure Education Program High blood pressure - the silent killer - is taking a hit from a new, ground-breaking treatment program from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario.Dr. Sheldon Tobe, Chair of the Canadian Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) and a long-standing Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher, has unveiled a new and powerful tool in the management of hypertension at the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Scientific Meeting -The Heart&Stroke Hypertension Management Program.	26 May 2011
Knowing Your Pulse Could Save Your Life! World Heart Rhythm Week 2011 Health campaigners are calling for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to be placed in every community to help prevent needless deaths from cardiac arrest. In the UK alone 100,000 people die each year from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, more then breast cancer, lung cancer and aids combined and can strike any one at any time.	26 May 2011
Procoralan(R) Reduces Heart Failure Death And Significantly Improves Quality Of Life In Patients With Heart Failure Procoralan® (ivabradine), a drug treatment costing just £10 a week, has today been shown to significantly improve quality of life in patients with heart failure.1,2,3 Ivabradine was also recently shown to reduce the risk of death from heart failure by 26% (26% RRR*, 1% ARR**).	26 May 2011
Polypill Halves Predicted Heart Disease And Stroke Risk The world's first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online in the open access journal PLoS One [1].	26 May 2011
Boston Scientific Announces FDA Approval And U.S. Launch Of PROMUS® 2.25mm Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its 2.25 mm PROMUS® Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System for use in vessels as small as 2.	26 May 2011
Enzyme Prevents Fatal Heart Condition Associated With Athletes Scientists have discovered an important enzyme molecule that may prevent fatal cardiac disorders associated with cardiac hypertrophy the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes.	26 May 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
IT Automation And Reduction Of Downtime Could Save NHS £40m Per Year In a climate where public sector organisations are being asked to do more with less, it is becoming increasingly important for IT departments to be able to save costs and gain efficiencies. With an estimated 1 million desktops across the NHS alone to manage, Dr.	26 May 2011
Newer Electronic Health Record Systems Reduce Rx Errors, But Doctors Find The Switch Difficult As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the government is investing billions of dollars to encourage health care providers to use electronic health record systems. Many providers will probably switch from older systems to new systems to qualify for the federal incentives, but whether the upgrade improves patient care and safety has remained an open question.	26 May 2011
Study Finds Violent Video Games Reduce Brain Response To Violence And Increase Aggressive Behavior Scientists have known for years that playing violent video games causes players to become more aggressive. The findings of a new University of Missouri (MU) study provide one explanation for why this occurs: the brains of violent video game players become less responsive to violence, and this diminished brain response predicts an increase in aggression.	26 May 2011
Long Term Use Of Gaming Devices And Mobile Phones Causes Wrist And Finger Pain In Children For the first time, results on the impact of gaming devices on finger and wrist pain in children were presented at the EULAR 2011 Annual Congress. Data comparing two schools in the USA demonstrate that young children experience high levels of pain following long term use of gaming devices and mobile phones indicating that excessive gaming may negatively impact on joint health.	26 May 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
Patient Access And Industry Competitiveness At Stake In Transparency Directive Review, Europe With the review of the EU "Transparency Directive" (Directive 89/105/EEC) gaining momentum, improving the competitive environment for pharmaceuticals and strengthening access to innovation for patients must remain core objectives in the review's next steps.	26 May 2011

Seniors / Aging News
CQC Report - UNISON Response, UK UNISON, the UK's largest union, today called for better standards of nutrition and dignity for elderly people whilst they are in hospital, after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report found that some hospitals were not reaching acceptable standards.	26 May 2011
Elderly Drivers Support Competency Tests Researchers studying driving habits and accident rates among the elderly found a majority surveyed supported mandatory retesting of drivers based on age while saying they would hand over the keys if a doctor or loved one said they were no longer fit to drive.	26 May 2011
CQC Publish First Of Detailed Reports Into Dignity And Nutrition For Older People The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes the first 12 reports from an inspection programme which examines whether elderly people receive essential standards of care in 100 NHS hospitals throughout England.	26 May 2011

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