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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News

LifeSource Announces New Study Findings Available On Deaths Related To Prescription Opioid Therapy LifeSource , a nonprofit organization established to fund healthcare-related projects, is addressing the nation's biggest healthcare problem. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 29 million Americans age 12 and older misused extended-release and long-acting opioids in 2002, climbing to more than 33 million in 2007.

15 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
European Scientists Develop Several Methods For Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease PredictAD is an EU-funded research project that develops objective and efficient methods for enabling earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Diagnosis requires a holistic view of the patient combining information from several sources, such as, clinical tests, imaging and blood samples.	15 June 2011

Dentistry News
Chocolate Makes Us Smile The Most Chocolate has topped the poll for the thing that makes most people smile.As this year's National Smile Month comes to an end today, the British Dental Health Foundation has been asking hundreds of people what makes them smile the most.	15 June 2011
Healing Times For Dental Implants Could Be Cut The technology used to replace lost teeth with titanium dental implants could be improved. By studying the surface structure of dental implants not only at micro level but also at nano level, researchers at the University of Gothenburg; Sweden, have come up with a method that could shorten the healing time for patients.	15 June 2011

Headache / Migraine News
Gastric Bypass Alleviates Migraine Headaches Bariatric surgery can lead to total or partial alleviation of migraines in nearly 90 percent of morbidly obese patients diagnosed with migraine headaches, according to a new study* presented here at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).	15 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Generx DNA-Based Angiogenic Therapy Receives Clearance For Late-Stage Registration Clinical Study For Coronary Artery Disease Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE Amex: CXM) today announced that it has received clearance from the Russian Ministry of Health and Social Development to commence a Phase 3 registration study for the Company's Generx™ (alferminogene tadenovec, Ad5FGF-4) biologic product candidate.	15 June 2011
Blood Pressure Changes Are Age-Related The main causes of increases in blood pressure over a lifetime are modifiable and could be targeted to help prevent cardiovascular disease: although high blood pressure sometimes has no obvious symptoms, this condition, which affects about a third of the adult UK and US populations, can lead to life-threatening heart attacks and stroke, so reducing blood pressure is very important for health.	15 June 2011
Incidence Of Heart Attack, Stroke, Death Drop Significantly After Bariatric Surgery Bariatric surgery can cut the incidence of heart attack, stroke or death by as much as 50 percent, according to a new study presented here at the 28th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).	15 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Cell Phone Range Outside Most Brain Tumor Locations Cell phone radiation cannot reach the cells where most brain tumors are located - so, is their alleged link to brain cancer in some studies misplaced? Study author, Dr. Suvi Larjavaara from the University of Tampere, Finland, explained in the American Journal of Epidemiology that regular mobile phone users do not have a higher incidence of brain tumors within the radiation range of their telephones (5 centimeters), compared to people who rarely or never use cellphones.	15 June 2011
2009 H1N1 Pandemic As Model For Healthy Computer Power An evaluation of the Public Health Grid (PHGrid) technology during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic could enhance the capabilities of epidemiologists and disease-control agencies when the next emergent disease appears, according to a study published in the International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing.	15 June 2011
Copper Folds Protein Into Precursors Of Parkinson's Plaques Researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out how copper induces misfolding in the protein associated with Parkinson's disease, leading to creation of the fibrillar plaques which characterize the disease.	15 June 2011
Paper At INFORMS Healthcare Conference To Report That Physician-Rating Websites Are Biased In Picking Doctors, Exaggerating Consumer Opinions, Patients posting their opinions about doctors on online ratings websites are much less likely to discuss physicians with low perceived quality and are more prone than offline populations to exaggerate their opinions, according to a paper being presented at a healthcare conference sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).	15 June 2011
New Research System Uses Social Media And Other Tools To Gather, Analyze Expert Opinions Researchers have developed a new method of eliciting and analyzing opinions from a large group of experts and laypeople to aid complex decision-making, adapting online and social media technologies to lower the cost of such activities while expanding the types of people who can be queried.	15 June 2011
New System To Protect Medical Implants From Attack Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such devices have wireless connections, so that doctors can monitor patients' vital signs or revise treatment programs.	15 June 2011
New Online Resource To Help People Return To Work After Mental Illness The Royal College of Psychiatrists has launched a new online resource offering information and guidance about returning to work after a period of mental ill-health. The Work and Mental Health website is divided into four main parts, and is aimed at workers, carers, employers and clinicians.	15 June 2011
The Polst Program, An Oregon Creation To Help Patients With Advanced Illness An Oregon-pioneered program aimed at improving health care for those with advanced illness is now receiving national attention. AARP recently released a report about the Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or POLST, program.	15 June 2011
Organizations Embrace Clinical Improvement But Require Tools For Data Analysis Healthcare organizations are embracing the need for information transparency to drive clinical transformation, but they still require the tools and capabilities to make data available in real time and reduce the burden on scarce resources.	15 June 2011
National Adverse Drug Event Network Launched PDR Network and its partners today announced the launch of a new online network to collect and distribute adverse drug events in the United States. The new service, called RxEvent, is now available to all U.	15 June 2011

Mental Health News
Migration Interception Practices Are A Major Threat To Health In the fifth article of a six-part PLoS Medicine series on migration & health, Zachary Steel from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and colleagues discuss the health risks associated with "interception strategies" that are used by governments to control and order international migration, especially in terms of halting the movement of irregular migrants, including asylum seekers.	15 June 2011
African-American Students Screened For School-Based Mental Health Services Mental health screening has been demonstrated to successfully connect African-American middle school students from a predominantly low-income area with school-based mental health services, according to results of a new study led by the TeenScreen National Center for Mental Health Checkups at Columbia University.	15 June 2011
New Online Resource To Help People Return To Work After Mental Illness The Royal College of Psychiatrists has launched a new online resource offering information and guidance about returning to work after a period of mental ill-health. The Work and Mental Health website is divided into four main parts, and is aimed at workers, carers, employers and clinicians.	15 June 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
APhA Announces 2011 Recipients Of APPM Presentation Merit Awards The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) today announced the recipients of the 2011 APhA-APPM Presentation Merit Awards. The recipients were chosen during the recent 2011 APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Seattle, Wash.	15 June 2011
National Adverse Drug Event Network Launched PDR Network and its partners today announced the launch of a new online network to collect and distribute adverse drug events in the United States. The new service, called RxEvent, is now available to all U.	15 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
ANF Concerned About Aged Care Workforce Issues, Australia The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has expressed concern over workforce issues raised in a TV report about Australia's under-resourced aged care sector. ANF Assistant Federal Secretary, Yvonne Chaperon, said the segment on last night's 6.	15 June 2011
Seniors In Rural Areas Have Highest Rates Of Obesity, Diabetes, Heart Disease Despite living in the countryside, where open space is plentiful and there is often significant agricultural production, California's more than half a million rural elders are far more likely to be overweight or obese, physically inactive and food insecure than their suburban counterparts, according to a new policy brief from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.	15 June 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Palatin Technologies, Inc. Announces Presentation And Publication On Validation Of Scale For Subjective Male Sexual Arousal Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PTN), a biopharmaceutical company developing bremelanotide for sexual dysfunction indications, announced presentation and publication of a report on validation of a scale for subjective male sexual arousal.	15 June 2011
Terrence Higgins Trust Statement On New Health Protection Agency Figures For Sexually Transmitted Infections In England The Health Protection Agency has released statistics for new sexually transmitted infection diagnoses in 2010, which show a small decrease for the first time in more than 10 years. Terrence Higgins Trust commented on the new figures:Chief Executive, Sir Nick Partridge, said: "The decreases in STIs that we saw in 2010 are small, but very significant.	15 June 2011
FPA Welcomes Decrease In Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) For First Time In A Decade, UK Figures released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show a small decrease of one per cent in the number of new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reported in England during 2010, particularly amongst the 15 to 24 year old age group.	15 June 2011
Link Between Teen Sex And Divorce Rate A University of Iowa study found that women who make their sexual debut as young teens are more likely to divorce, especially if "the first time" was unwanted, or if she had mixed feelings about it.	15 June 2011
CONRAD And TIA Sign License Agreement In Next Steps For Tenofovir Gel Terms of deal to make gel affordable and accessible in Africa following regulatory approvalJune 14, 2011 Arlington, VA, USA and Pretoria, South Africa. CONRAD and the South African Government's Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have announced a license agreement that grants TIA the rights to manufacture and distribute Tenofovir1% gel in Africa.	15 June 2011
STIs Drop For First Time In A Decade While Testing And Chlamydia Screening Rise, UK New figures released today by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show for the first time in more than 10 years a small decrease in the total number of STIs diagnosed in England, most notably in young people.	15 June 2011
Quality Parenting Skills By Dads Reduces The Incidence Of Risky Sexual Behavior By Their Daughters Father's Day this Sunday is a chance to recognize dads for putting up with all manner of nonsense that kids manage to cook up on the way to adulthood.But a new study by researchers at the University of Arizona shows just how important dad's job as a role model actually is.	15 June 2011
Simple, Affordable Interventions To Increase Prenatal Screening And Treatment Could Halve Stillbirths And Newborn Deaths Due To Syphilis Simple, low cost interventions to increase the coverage of screening and treatment of syphilis during pregnancy could prevent more than half of newborn deaths and stillbirths related to the disease, which is responsible for nearly 500 000 perinatal deaths every year in sub-Saharan Africa alone.	15 June 2011

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