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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Study Reveals Doctors Can Do More To Address Prescription Drug Abuse As prescription drug abuse reaches epidemic proportions, a recent study reports disturbingly low monitoring rates for patients taking powerful prescription drugs. Only 8 percent of patients taking opioid pain medications are screened by their doctor.	29 May 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
No Overall Increased Cancer Risk Found For Arthritis Patients Taking Newer Treatments Only three percent (n=181) of patients in the study cohort receiving anti-tumour necrosis factor agents (anti-TNFs) for treatment of their arthritis developed a first cancer within nine years and overall risk was not dependent on the type of arthritis.	29 May 2011
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Suffer Heart Attack Are Generally Under-Treated For Cardiovascular Disease Results of a study, involving 98,454 patients demonstrated that at 30 days following their first heart attack, RA patients were approximately 20% less likely to be prescribed standard MI treatments, such as statins and betablockers, compared to healthy patients.	29 May 2011
Association Between Financial Conflicts Of Interest And Positive Study Outcomes Results demonstrate that 91% of RCTs recording this kind of FCOI achieved a positive - outcome, compared to 66.7% of RCTs without specific FCOI (p=0.02) and adjusting for confounding factors did not change this finding.	29 May 2011
REALISTIC: Certzolimab Delivers In Real World Situations After 12 weeks of treatment certolizumab pegol (Cimzia ®) delivered rapid and consistent improvements in a broad range of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients regardless of whether or not they had received prior TNF inhibitors, concluded the latest analysis of the Phase III b REALISTIC trial.	29 May 2011
Survey Reveals HCPs Are Failing To Set Goals With RA Patients While the majority of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) feel that personalized goal setting would have a positive impact on disease management, many stated that their health care professionals (HCPS) are not discussing approaches to achieving personal or social goals, reports a survey presented at the Annual Meeting of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in London, May 25-28.	29 May 2011

Heart Disease News
New Super Sticky Cholesterol In Individuals With High Heart Disease Risk Discovered MGmin-low-density lipoprotein (LDL), a form of ultra-bad cholesterol that significantly increases the risk of heart disease, has been discovered by researchers at the University of Warwick, England.	29 May 2011
Doctor Dies Competing In Triathlon In Colorado Dr. Michael Wiggins, 42, who was competing in the Pelican Test Triathlon, died shortly before 8.30 am during the swimming segment of the competition - he was found face down in Windsor Lake near to where the competing swimmers come out of the water and get onto their bicycles.	29 May 2011
Coronary Imaging Catheters Become Detached - Boston Scientific Issues Recall Of 29,664 Units Boston Scientific is recalling 29,664 units of its iCross Coronary Imaging Catheters because it has received confirmed occurrences of "..catheter tip detachments due to embrittlement of the catheter material.	29 May 2011
Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Who Suffer Heart Attack Are Generally Under-Treated For Cardiovascular Disease Results of a study, involving 98,454 patients demonstrated that at 30 days following their first heart attack, RA patients were approximately 20% less likely to be prescribed standard MI treatments, such as statins and betablockers, compared to healthy patients.	29 May 2011
Super-Sticky 'Ultra-Bad' Cholesterol Revealed In People At High Risk Of Heart Disease Scientists from the University of Warwick have discovered why a newly found form of cholesterol seems to be 'ultra-bad', leading to increased risk of heart disease. The discovery could lead to new treatments to prevent heart disease particularly in people with type 2 diabetes and the elderly.	29 May 2011
Earlier And More Accurate Prediction Of Diseases Such As Diabetes, Atherosclerosis And Heart Disease, Presented At European Society Of Human Genetics Studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids (fatty molecules) in the blood plasma of an individual can lead to a better and earlier prediction of diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and heart disease, two researchers will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday 30 May).	29 May 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
New Biomaterial Invented That More Closely Mimics Human Tissue A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn't wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue.	29 May 2011

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