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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
'Rewarding' Objects Can't Be Ignored The world is a dazzling array of people, objects, sounds, smells and events: far too much for us to fully experience at any moment. So our attention may automatically be snagged by something startling, such as a slamming door, or we may deliberately focus on something that is important to us right then, such as locating our child among the happily screaming hordes on the school playground.	08 June 2011
Overweight More Harmful To The Liver Than Alcohol In Middle-aged Men Overweight carries a greatly increased risk of cirrhosis of the liver in men, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. "Given the increasing problem of overweight in Sweden, there is reason to fear that more people will develop cirrhosis of the liver," says Jerzy Kaczynski, docent at the University of Gothenburg and doctor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.	08 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Anavex Advances Second Lead Compound; Initiates Scale-up Manufacturing Of ANAVEX 1-41 Anavex Life Sciences Corp., ("Anavex") (OTCBB: AVXL) today announced the initiation of scale-up manufacturing of ANAVEX 1-41, its lead compound for a range of important neurological diseases and a potential back-up compound to ANAVEX 2-73 in Alzheimer's disease.	08 June 2011

Autism News
New Genetic Studies Dive Deeper Into The Autistic Mind; New Insights Different people with autism can have very different symptoms. Health care providers think of autism as a "spectrum" disorder (ASD), a group of disorders with similar features. One person may have mild symptoms, while another may have serious symptoms.	08 June 2011

Dentistry News
Piloting Must Not Fail Test Of Nerve Says GDPC Chair, UK All parties involved in pilots for a new dental contract in England must hold their nerve when the process hits problems, General Dental Practice Committee Chair John Milne has emphasised this week.	08 June 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Adjuvant Combo Shows Potential For Universal Influenza Vaccine Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered how to prime a second arm of the immune system to potentially boost influenza vaccine effectiveness. A combination of two adjuvants, chemicals used to boost the effectiveness of some vaccines, induced CD8, or killer, T cells to join antibodies in response to influenza infection.	08 June 2011
Promising Results Of Universal Flu Vaccine Clinical Trials A universal influenza vaccine targeting a protein common to all strains of influenza A has safely produced an immune response in humans. If proven effective, the vaccine could eliminate the practice of creating a new flu vaccine annually to match predicted strains, with major implications for global health.	08 June 2011
Coseasonality Of Influenza And Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Using a combination of sophisticated modelling and statistical analyses, David Fisman and colleagues show that infection with influenza likely increases the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD).	08 June 2011

Headache / Migraine News
Trial Of Drug's Impact On Neurological Disease Affecting Women A rare but increasingly more common disease striking overweight, younger women is the focus of a clinical trial at Michigan State University, where an osteopathic physician is testing the effectiveness of a certain drug against a potentially blindness-causing ailment.	08 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Cytori Reports Sustained Benefits At 18 Months In Cardiac Cell Therapy Heart Attack Trial Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) is reporting 18 month outcomes from its APOLLO trial for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI). The results from the 14 patient, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind safety and feasibility trial in patients with ST-elevation AMI demonstrated the following: - Mean reduction in infarct size at 6 months was preserved at 18 months for the cell treated group (standard-of-care plus cells), at 11.	08 June 2011
Funding To Support Research In Myocardial Perfusion Received By Rhode Island Hospital Fellow Antonio Lassaletta, M.D., a fellow in cardiothoracic surgery research at Rhode Island Hospital, has been awarded a Research Fellowship from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education (TSFRE) to support his project, "Improving Myocardial Perfusion in a Diabetic Swine Model of Chronic Cardiac Ischemia.	08 June 2011
Circulating Levels Of A Lung Protein Found To Be 'Strongly Predictive' Of Cardiovascular Disease A blood protein known as surfactant protein-D (SP-D), which is mainly synthesised in the lungs, has been described as "a good predictor" of cardiovascular disease following a large study in North America.	08 June 2011
Lowering Phosphate Intake In Humans Can Reduce Heart Disease, According To Research By Experts At The University Of Sheffield. This is the first time the connection between a high phosphate diet and atherosclerosis - the cause of heart disease - has been proven. The findings have been published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (2 June 2011).	08 June 2011
Teens With Type 2 Diabetes Already Show Possible Signs Of Impaired Heart Function Heart function may be affected in people with Type 2 diabetes as early as adolescence, according to a new study that will be presented Sunday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston.	08 June 2011
New System For Repairing Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms When Dr. Ross Milner repaired Lydia Strebing's life-threatening abdominal aortic aneurysm, she was astonished at how easy it was."I've had more pain from dental procedures," she said. "This was nothing.	08 June 2011
Using Magnets To Help Prevent Heart Attacks If a person's blood becomes too thick it can damage blood vessels and increase the risk of heart attacks. But a Temple University physicist has discovered that he can thin the human blood by subjecting it to a magnetic field.	08 June 2011
What Is Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy? Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a type of heart disease in which the heart muscle (myocardium) becomes thickened without any obvious cause. This prevents it from pumping effectively and can cause sudden cardiac death if left untreated.	08 June 2011
Heart attack rate drops in London over 20 years, but weight gain may reverse trend in future Heart attack rates have fallen by 74% in London over the last two decades, mainly due to better hypertension and cholesterol control, as well as a decline in smoking, researchers from University College London Medical School reported in the European Heart Journal.	08 June 2011
Damaged Hearts Could Be Encouraged To Self-Repair A new type of stem-like heart cell has been transformed into heart muscle, proving that dormant cells exist in the heart that have the capacity to carry out repairs, researchers from University College London reported in the journal Nature.	08 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
HHS And The Office Of The National Coordinator For Health Information Technology Introduce New Investing In Innovations (i2) Initiative The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced today the Investing in Innovations (i2) Initiative - a bold new program designed to spur innovations in health IT.	08 June 2011
AARP Launches New Online Tools To Help Spot Medicare Errors And Fight Fraud AARP today announced two new online tools to help seniors-and their loved ones-better understand their quarterly Medicare Summary Notices, which list the medical services and supplies billed to Medicare for their care.	08 June 2011
Simulation To Study Implementation Of Electronic Health Records A researcher in the University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Emergency Medicine has received a two-year, $150,000 fellowship award from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to study the implementation of electronic health records in a suburban emergency department (ED).	08 June 2011
Researcher Develops Speedier Technique For Predicting Protein Folding Protein folding has nothing to do with laundry. It is, in fact, one of the central questions in biochemistry. Protein folding is the continual and universal process whereby the long, coiled strings of amino acids that make up proteins in all living things fold into more complex three-dimensional structures.	08 June 2011
RACGP Submission On Draft Concept Of Operations Relating To The PCEHR, Australia In its submission made in response to the Department of Health and Ageing's Draft Concept of Operations - Relating to the introduction of a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has urged the government to acknowledge the central role of GPs in the healthcare system and the roll-out of the PCEHR.	08 June 2011
Air Quality Worsened By Paved Surfaces New research focusing on the Houston area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea.	08 June 2011
Stark Differences In Media Use Between Minority And White Youth Minority youth aged 8 to 18 consume an average of 13 hours of media content a day -- about 4-1/2 hours more than their white counterparts, according to a Northwestern University report, the first national study to focus exclusively on children's media use by race and ethnicity.	08 June 2011
Technology Expands Options For Capturing Patient Data New computers, phones, and handheld devices are being introduced at a rapid pace. These advances in technology have provided more efficient methods for the collection of patient-reported outcome (PRO) data.	08 June 2011

Mental Health News
Plans For Mentally Ill Prisoners In The UK Are Unrealistic Government plans to divert more mentally ill people out of the criminal justice system and into mental health services are unlikely to be achieved, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.	08 June 2011
When Prompted, Many Cancer Patients Indicate They Want Treatment For Depression, Smoking, Polaris Trial Shows A clinical trial launched by Polaris Health Directions is off to a strong start with more than 100 of the planned 1,000 patients enrolled within the first six weeks. The research is examining whether using an automated assessment and referral system developed by Polaris can improve quality of life and reduce long-term costs related to poor mental health and high health care utilization among people with cancer.	08 June 2011
What Mom Thinks Matters When It Comes To Mental Illness A new study led by a Northern Illinois University sociologist shows that while family members often provide critical support, they also can sometimes be the source of stigmatizing attitudes that impede the recovery of mentally ill relatives.	08 June 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
5CPA Update - MMR Program Changes, Australia The 5th Community Pharmacy Agreement (5CPA), announced in mid 2010, proposed changes to elements of both the Home Medicines Review (HMR) and Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR) programs.	08 June 2011
Can Registries Be Used To Link Price To Outcomes? Access to new drugs can be delayed or denied because of uncertainty about the extent of long term benefit to the patient. Arrangements where funding is linked to ongoing research have the potential to reduce uncertainty and give patients earlier access to new treatments.	08 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Older Adults Say Urinary Incontinence Has Greater Impact On Quality Of Life Than Diabetes, Arthritis And Other Chronic Conditions Americans 65 and over say that urinary incontinence affects their quality of life physically, mentally and socially to a greater degree than diabetes, arthritis and many other chronic conditions, according to a study by AARP Services, Inc.	08 June 2011
Poplar Tree Leaf Bud Extract Could Fight Skin Aging Antioxidants are popular anti-aging ingredients in skin creams, and now scientists are reporting a new source of these healthful substances - leaf buds of poplar trees. Their study appears in the ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.	08 June 2011
Small Day-To-Day Changes Can Lead To An Active Social, Spiritual And Physical Life, Helping To Prevent Health Decline In Seniors Small, healthy lifestyle changes and involvement in meaningful activities - going beyond just diet and exercise - are critical to healthy aging, according to a new USC study.Guided by lifestyle advisors, seniors participating in the study made small, sustainable changes in their routines (such as visiting a museum with a friend once a week) that led to measurable gains in quality of life, including lower rates of depression and better reported satisfaction with life.	08 June 2011
First National Study Of Occupational Fatalities: Construction Industry Has Highest Number Of Traumatic Brain Injuries In US Workplace Although traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, work-related TBI has not been well documented. In a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers describe the epidemiology of fatal TBI in the US workplace between 2003 and 2008.	08 June 2011
Older Age Does Not Cause Testosterone Levels To Decline In Healthy Men A decline in testosterone levels as men grow older is likely the result not the cause of deteriorating general health, say Australian scientists, whose new study finds that age, in itself, has no effect on testosterone level in healthy older men.	08 June 2011

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