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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
New Report Shows A 55 Percent Increase From 2005 To 2009 In Emergency Department Visits For Drug-Related Suicide Attempts By Males Aged 21 To 34 A new national study shows that from 2005 to 2009 there was a 55 percent increase in emergency department visits for drug related suicide attempts by men aged 21 to 34 -- from 19,024 visits in 2005 to 29,407 visits in 2009.	17 June 2011
Parents Lead By Example On Responsible Drinking Says Drinkaware, UK Responding to today's Joseph Rowntree Foundation survey showing the influence of family and friends on teenage drinking, Chris Sorek, Chief Executive of alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware, says: "This study reinforces Drinkaware's research which shows that parents are vital in shaping children's attitudes to alcohol and they have more influence than they think.	17 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Memory Restored In Rat Model Scientists have developed a way to turn memories on and off - literally with the flip of a switch.Using an electronic system that duplicates the neural signals associated with memory, they managed to replicate the brain function in rats associated with long-term learned behavior, even when the rats had been drugged to forget.	17 June 2011

Autism News
Johns Hopkins Researchers Create New Mouse Model Of Autism In an effort to unravel the tangled biology of autism, Johns Hopkins scientists have created a mouse model that mimics a human mutation of a gene known to be associated with autism spectrum disorders.	17 June 2011

Dentistry News
American Dental Association, The Forsyth Institute Again Offering Popular Evidence-Based Dentistry Training Course After enthusiastic feedback from its classes of students in 2009 and 2010, the American Dental Association's (ADA) Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry (EBD) and The Forsyth Institute's Center for Evidence-Based Dentistry, have announced they will hold an ADA/Forsyth EBD Training course for 2011.	17 June 2011
Even With Insurance Coverage, Disparities In Dental Care Persist For African-Americans African Americans receive poorer dental care than white Americans, even when they have some dental insurance coverage. To better understand why this is so, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the College of Dental Medicine, surveyed African American adults with recent oral health symptoms, including toothaches and gum disease.	17 June 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Heightened Immunity To Colds Makes Asthma Flare-Ups Worse People often talk about "boosting" their immunity to prevent and fight colds. Nutritional supplements, cold remedies and fortified foods claim to stave off colds by augmenting the immune system.	17 June 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News

Even With Insurance Coverage, Disparities In Dental Care Persist For African-Americans African Americans receive poorer dental care than white Americans, even when they have some dental insurance coverage. To better understand why this is so, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the College of Dental Medicine, surveyed African American adults with recent oral health symptoms, including toothaches and gum disease.

17 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Researchers Link Chromosome Region To Thoracic Aortic Disease Patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms that lead to acute aortic dissections are 12 times more likely to have duplications in the DNA in a region of chromosome 16 (16p13.1) than those without the disease, according to a study led by genetic researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).	17 June 2011
Draft Guidance From NICE Recommends New Treatment For ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction NICE is currently appraising the use of bivalirudin (Angiox, The Medicines Company) as a treatment option for people who have suffered a type of myocardial infarction (heart attack) called a ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction or 'STEMI'.	17 June 2011
Worldwide Heart & Stroke Community Joins Together In New York To Make CVD An International Priority World Heart Federation members from around the globe, including Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa, African Heart Network, Pakistan's Heartfile, Danish Heart Foundation, Asia Pacific Heart Network and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Barbados, gathered yesterday and today in New York for a meeting hosted by the American Heart Association with United Nations country representatives to discuss the growing burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD).	17 June 2011
Bioheart Set To Present At International Academy Of Cardiology, 16th World Congress On Heart Disease, Annual Scientific Sessions 2011 Bioheart, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT) is one of the Emerging Biotech Presenters at the International Academy of Cardiology, 16th World Congress on Heart Disease, Annual Scientific Sessions July 23rd-26th in Vancouver at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.	17 June 2011
Hormone Replacement Therapy Can Decrease Peripheral Arterial Disease A new study presented at the 65th Vascular Annual Meeting® of the Society of Vascular Surgery® found that the use of HRT in postmenopausal women is associated with a significant reduction in the prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).	17 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
New Medical Sensor With Stretchable Electronics Electronics that can be bent and stretched might sound like science fiction. But Uppsala researcher Zhigang Wu, working with collaborators, has devised a wireless sensor that can stand to be stretched.	17 June 2011
Star Trek Inspired Medical Monitoring New research by electrical engineers at Oregon State University has confirmed that an electronic technology called "ultrawideband" could hold part of the solution to an ambitious goal in the future of medicine - health monitoring with sophisticated "body-area networks.	17 June 2011
WISPER: A Wireless Intelligent Sensor Platform For Emergency Responders When Hansel and Gretel ventured into the forest, they left a trail of breadcrumbs to find their way home. In today's world, cellular phones, Global Positioning System (GPS), WiFi, and Bluetooth are the digital signals that connect us to friends, family, and colleagues while helping us find our location and map our routes.	17 June 2011
Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire In Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting containment strategies and mitigation efforts once the fires are out.	17 June 2011

Mental Health News
New Report Shows A 55 Percent Increase From 2005 To 2009 In Emergency Department Visits For Drug-Related Suicide Attempts By Males Aged 21 To 34 A new national study shows that from 2005 to 2009 there was a 55 percent increase in emergency department visits for drug related suicide attempts by men aged 21 to 34 -- from 19,024 visits in 2005 to 29,407 visits in 2009.	17 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Identification Of Protein That Improves DNA Repair Under Stress Could Lead To Treatments To Prevent Premature Aging And Cancer Cells in the human body are constantly being exposed to stress from environmental chemicals or errors in routine cellular processes. While stress can cause damage, it can also provide the stimulus for undoing the damage.	17 June 2011
New Report Reveals Low Treatment Uptake, Inadequate Implementation Of National Osteoporosis Guidelines And Poor Adherence To Therapy New report reveals low treatment uptake, inadequate implementation of national osteoporosis guidelines and poor adherence to therapyIn Europe, a serious treatment gap is leaving millions of people at high risk of fragility fractures.	17 June 2011

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