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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Decision-Making Processes Blunted In Chronic Marijuana Smokers Smoking marijuana affects peoples' impulsivity, attention, memory, cognition and decision-making abilities. That's been scientifically proven.Recent research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center draws on the findings of previously published studies to further understanding about how marijuana affects the brains of chronic users, with specific focus on how the drug affects the decision-making process.	21 June 2011
Chronic Cocaine Abuse And Abnormal Brain Structure Researchers at the University of Cambridge have identified abnormal brain structures in the frontal lobe of cocaine users' brains which are linked to their compulsive cocaine-using behaviour.	21 June 2011
Misleading Centre For Policy Studies Report 'Grossly Exaggerates' Cost Of Methadone Prescribing, UK Report published by right-of-centre think tank is inaccurate and misleading, 'grossly exaggerating' the cost of methadone prescribing and 'seriously understating' the achievements of drug treatment.	21 June 2011
Adulterated Cocaine Causing Serious Skin Reactions Doctors warned of a potential public health epidemic in a recent report on patients in Los Angeles and New York who developed serious skin reactions after smoking or snorting cocaine believed to be contaminated with a veterinary medication drug dealers are using to dilute, or "cut," up to 70% of the cocaine in the U.	21 June 2011
Link Between Energy Drinks And Substance Use In Musicians Frequent use of energy drinks is associated with binge drinking, alcohol-related social problems and misuse of prescription drugs among musicians, according to researchers at the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions.	21 June 2011
Obese Girls More Than Twice As Likely To Be Addicted To Smoking Obese teenage girls are more than twice as likely as other girls to develop high-level nicotine addiction as young adults, according to a new study. Nearly 20 percent of American adolescents currently are obese, the authors note.	21 June 2011
Blood-Alcohol Levels Well Below The U.S. Legal Limit Associated With Incapacitating Injury And Death In the United States, the blood-alcohol limit may be 0.08 percent, but no amount of alcohol seems to be safe for driving, according to a University of California, San Diego sociologist. A study led by David Phillips and published in the journal Addiction finds that blood-alcohol levels well below the U.	21 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's Society Comment On EHRC Report, UK Interim findings published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) revealed that care at home is failing to protect older people's basic human rights.The EHRC's interim report on home care has highlighted a number of issues including insufficient support to help people eat and drink, being left in bed for up to 17 hours between visits; and being left in soiled bedclothes.	21 June 2011
Three Postulates To Help Identify The Cause Of Alzheimer's Disease After more than 100 years following its pathologic description, the cause of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains unknown. To test the validity of present and future proposals related to the probable cause of AD, three postulates, or necessary conditions, are recommended by Jack de la Torre, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, in an article published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.	21 June 2011
GPs Missing Early Dementia New Study New research from the University of Leicester demonstrates that general practitioners (GPs) are struggling to correctly identify people in the early stages of dementia resulting in both missed cases (false negatives) and misidentifications (false positives).	21 June 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Certain Drugs Lower Risk Of Diabetes For Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis Or Psoriasis In a study that included nearly 14,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis, the use of certain disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs was found to lower the risk of diabetes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA.	21 June 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Insurers Cover Focused Ultrasound Therapy In Germany, But Not US What's easier: gaining regulatory approval for a new medical device, or convincing insurers to cover the treatments it provides? According to Susan Klees of the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, many experts say regulatory approval is the easier task.	21 June 2011
Inaccurate Medical Claims Waste $17 Billion Annually, Says American Medical Association Claims-processing errors have increased by two percent over the last year to a 19.3% rate, wasting $17 billion annually and frustrating patients and health care professionals, says the American Medical Association in its fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.	21 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Most Heart Attack Patients Needing Procedure Such As Balloon Angioplasty At Another Hospital Not Transferred In Recommended Time Only about 10 percent of patients with a certain type of heart attack who need to be transferred to another hospital for a PCI (procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries) are transferred within the recommended time of 30 minutes, according to a study in the June 22/29 issue of JAMA.	21 June 2011
Exercise Training Program Improves Outcomes In "Grinch Syndrome" Patients An exercise training program worked better than a commonly used beta blocker, significantly improving - even curing - patients with a debilitating heart syndrome, according to research published in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.	21 June 2011
Shorter Pause In CPR Before Defibrillator Use Improves Cardiac Arrest Survival A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.	21 June 2011
Millions With Peripheral Artery Disease Not Getting Vital Medications Millions of adults with peripheral artery disease are not receiving the medications needed to reduce their risk of heart attack, stroke and death, according to research in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.	21 June 2011
Randox Announce Worldwide Launch Of Automated Biochemistry Assay For Heart-Type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP) Highly sensitive & specific biomarker of myocardial ischemia can now be used routinely for the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), via new CE-marked laboratory assay.Randox Laboratories Ltd, the international clinical diagnostics company, has today announced the official worldwide launch of an automated laboratory assay for Heart-type Fatty Acid Binding Protein (H-FABP), to be used in the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS).	21 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
The University Of Kansas Hospital Goes Live With ZynxOrder And ZynxCare Integrated Into EHR Zynx Health, the market leader in providing evidence-based and experience-based clinical decision support solutions, today announced that The University of Kansas Hospital has gone live with 240 evidence-based order sets deployed via computerized provider order entry (CPOE).	21 June 2011
National Library Of Medicine Launches MedlinePlus Connect The National Library of Medicine, the world's largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.	21 June 2011
CMHC/MIS Electronic Health Record Solution From Netsmart Technologies Attains Complete ARRA Certification Netsmart Technologies, Inc, a leading provider of software and services for health and human services organizations, announced that its CMHC/MIS 4.2 electronic health record (EHR) software for behavioral health provider organizations has achieved 100 percent ONC-ATCB ARRA Ambulatory Certification.	21 June 2011

Mental Health News
Children With OCD, Anxiety And Tic Disorders Receive Treatment At New Specialty Clinic At NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Children and adolescents with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety or tic disorders are being treated in a new specialized outpatient clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center -- one of the only programs of its kind in the New York metro area.	21 June 2011
NICE Consults On New Draft Quality Standards And Guidance On Service User Experience In Mental Health And Patient Experience In NHS Services NICE has today (21 June) launched a consultation on its draft quality standards and draft guidance on service user experience in adult mental health and patient experience in adult NHS services.	21 June 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
Thousands Of Patients Prescribed High-risk Drugs, UK Thousands of patients in Scotland who are particularly vulnerable to adverse drug events (ADEs) were prescribed high-risk medications by their GPs which could potentially cause them harm, according to research published on BMJ.	21 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Age-related Diseases Are Linked To Vitamin And Mineral Insufficiencies All vitamins have been discovered from the serious (often lethal) diseases as an almost immediate response to nutritional deficiencies. This is why historically vitamins were linked to only one physiological function, and this function is generally a key for survival of the organism.	21 June 2011
Enzymes Found In Mitochondria Hold Implications For Cancer Research, Many Age-Related Diseases Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have revealed novel mechanisms in mitochondria that have implications for cancer as well as many other age-related diseases such as Parkinson's disease, heart disease and hypertension.	21 June 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Intrauterine Devices Safe And Effective, Says American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists IUDs (intrauterine devices) and implants are not only safe for nearly all women of reproductive age, but also the best forms of reversible contraception currently available, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced today in a Practice Bulletin published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.	21 June 2011
UK Study Of Gay Class Tourism New research at the University of Leicester is investigating a growing fascination with 'chav' culture among middle-class gay men in Britain.Professor Joanna Brewis, from the University of Leicester School of Management, UK, will conduct primary empirical research into gay class tourism following publication of findings reported last year in the journal Sociology.	21 June 2011
IUDs, Implants Are Most Effective Reversible Contraceptives Available Long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods-namely intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants-are the most effective forms of reversible contraception available and are safe for use by almost all reproductive-age women, according to a Practice Bulletin released today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (The College).	21 June 2011

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