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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Cutting With Levamisole Could Make Cocaine Abuse Worse For Skin Cocaine is one of the most used illegal substances. So much so that cocaine "cut" with byproducts is rampant and in a new report, it seems that cocaine is now being diluted from its pure form with levamisole, a cheap and widely available drug used to deworm livestock.	23 June 2011
New Report Shows Significant Growth In Substance Abuse Treatment Admissions Related To Prescription Opiates And Other Drugs From 1999 To 2009 A new national report shows that from 1999 to 2009 (the most recent year with available figures) substance abuse treatment admissions among those 12 and older have gone up for cases involving alcohol, opiates, and marijuana.	23 June 2011
Link Between Drug Use And Fatal Car Crashes It's well known that drunk driving can have fatal consequences, but a new study suggests that alcohol is not the only drug that's a danger on the road.It might make sense that drugs like marijuana or amphetamines would impair drivers and lead to crashes.	23 June 2011
Disinhibition Can Both Reveal And Shape The Person Power can lead to great acts of altruism, but also corruptive, unethical behavior. Being intoxicated can lead to a first date, or a bar brawl. And the mask of anonymity can encourage one individual to let a stranger know they have toilet paper stuck to their shoe, whereas another may post salacious photos online.	23 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
New Combo Analyses Spinal Fluid With MRI May Early Predict Alzheimer's Alzheimer's Disease may be early diagnosed based on spinal fluid samples combined with brain scans according to new research. This new approach to symptom identification could allow scientists to test treatments or preventions far earlier in the disease, when they could be more effective.	23 June 2011
A Key Trigger To A Rare But Deadly Neurodegenerative Disease Revealed By Molecular Biophysics Professor Jeremy Smith, Governor's Chair for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has helped reveal a key trigger of Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, a rare but deadly neurodegenerative disease.	23 June 2011
New Biomarker May Help With Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease A new biomarker may help identify which people with mild memory deficits will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the June 22, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.	23 June 2011

Autism News
Disruption Of Neural Activity In Autistic Toddlers A new study provides valuable insight into the neuropathology of early autism development by imaging the brains of naturally sleeping toddlers. The research, published by Cell Press in the June 24 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies a brain abnormality observed at the very beginning stages of autism that may aid in early diagnosis of autism and shed light on its underlying biology.	23 June 2011
Weaker Brain "Sync" May Be Early Sign Of Autism In a novel imaging study of sleeping toddlers, scientists at the University of California, San Diego Autism Center of Excellence report that a diminished ability of a young brain's hemispheres to "sync" with one another could be a powerful, new biological marker of autism, one that might enable an autism diagnosis at a very young age.	23 June 2011

Dentistry News
ImageWorks Announces FDA Approval Of The NewTom 5G Cone Beam CT ImageWorks (OTC.IWKS.PK), leading provider of imaging products to the dental, medical and veterinary marketplace, is proud to announce the FDA Approval of the latest Cone Beam CT, the NewTom 5G.	23 June 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Call For Universal Seasonal Flu Jab For All Young Children There is a case for universal vaccination of children aged six months to five years with the seasonal flu jab, suggest Professor David Mant and colleague Consultant Epidemiologist Richard Mayon-White, in an editorial1 in this month's British Journal of General Practice (BJGP).	23 June 2011
Influenza Vaccination During Pregnancy Protects Newborns Infants born to mothers who received the influenza (flu) vaccine while pregnant are nearly 50 percent less likely to be hospitalized for the flu than infants born to mothers who did not receive the vaccine while pregnant, according to a new collaborative study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues.	23 June 2011
Immunity To The Common Cold Virus: Sex And Age Matter Researchers in the UQ School of Medicine at Princess Alexandra Hospital have made an important discovery about how the immune system reacts to rhinoviruses, the viruses that usually cause the common cold.	23 June 2011

Headache / Migraine News
Clinical Trial Data Demonstrating Benefit Of Neuromodulation For Chronic Migraine St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, has announced study results on the safety and efficacy of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) of the occipital nerve for the management of pain and disability associated with chronic migraine, a debilitating condition that affects millions worldwide.	23 June 2011
St. Jude Medical Reveals Randomized Clinical Trial Data Demonstrating Benefit Of Neuromodulation For Chronic Migraine St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced study results on the safety and efficacy of peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) of the occipital nerve for the management of pain and disability associated with chronic migraine, a debilitating condition that affects millions worldwide.	23 June 2011
The First Animal Model Of A Severe Form Of Migraine Indicates Increased Neuronal Excitability As A Possible Cause Familial hemiplegic migraine is a rare and severe subtype of migraine with aura, an unusual sensory experience preceding the migraine attack. Researchers from the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, and CNR Institute of Neuroscience in Pisa, Italy, have developed a mouse model of Familial Hemiplegic Migraine type 2 (FHM2) and used it to investigate the migraine's cause.	23 June 2011

Heart Disease News
NICE Encourages More Research On New Test For Heart Attacks The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) yesterday (22 June), published medical technology guidance on the use of a test to rule out myocardial infarction (heart attack) in patients who have acute chest pain.	23 June 2011
Angioplasty With Stents May Be Safe In Long-Term For Low-Risk Heart Patients Heart bypass surgery is considered the gold standard for most patients with left main coronary artery disease, one of the most serious types of heart disease and one that affects thousands.But a new UCLA study reports favorable long-term outcomes for lower-risk patients with this condition who underwent angioplasty with medication-coated stents, rather than bypass surgery.	23 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
New Free Online Curation Tool A Boon For Genetic Biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information.The project was a collaboration between researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology and the department of computer science.	23 June 2011
Stretching Old Material Yields New Results For Energy- And Environment-Related Devices Researchers at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. recently found a way to improve electricity generating fuel cells, potentially making them more efficient, powerful and less expensive. Specifically, they discovered a way to speed up the flow and filtering of water or ions, which are necessary for fuel cells to operate.	23 June 2011

Mental Health News
Study Finds Mental Illness Erodes Individual Faith Mental illness of a family member destroys the family's connection with the religious community, a new study by Baylor University psychologists has found, leading many affected families to leave the church and their faith behind.	23 June 2011
Senate Inquiry Vindicates AMA Stance On Mental Health Cuts, Australia The announcement today of a Senate inquiry into the Government's funding and administration of mental health services follows persistent lobbying by the AMA and other medical groups.The Community Affairs References Committee will look at the impact of changes to the Better Access Program on patients with mental illness.	23 June 2011
BJOG Release: Domestic Violence In Pregnancy Linked To Depression, Postnatal Domestic Violence And Child Behavioural Problems Domestic violence in pregnancy is linked to depression and childhood behavioural problems, suggests new research published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	23 June 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
European Pharmacists Stress The Importance Of Interdisciplinary Collaboration In Primary Care The Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union hosted this week in Berlin its Annual Symposium dedicated to 'New Opportunities in Primary Care: Maximizing Pharmacists' Contribution via Interdisciplinary Collaboration.	23 June 2011
Isabelle Adenot Appointed President Of European Pharmacists For 2012 During its annual General Assembly held this week in Berlin, the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Union has unanimously elected Ms Isabelle Adenot as PGEU President for the year 2012. President of the Conseil National de l'Ordre des Pharmaciens since 2009, Ms Adenot has been active in French and European pharmacy related issues for 30 years and was closely involved in the development of the Pharmaceutical Dossier, an innovative medication record system established by French pharmacists.	23 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Drug Side Effect Linked With Increased Health Risks For Over 65s A side effect of many commonly used drugs appears to increase the risks of both cognitive impairment and death in older people, according to new research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).	23 June 2011
UF Review Of Resveratrol Studies Confirms Potential Health Boost A University of Florida review of research finds the polyphenol compound known as resveratrol found in red wine, grapes and other fruits may not prevent old age, but it might make it more tolerable.	23 June 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Adult Film Performers Have High Rates Of Sexually Transmitted Infections Rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea infection among adult film performers in Los Angeles County are "unacceptably high," according to a paper in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.	23 June 2011
Scaling-Up HIV Services For Men Who Have Sex With Men And Transgender People New public health recommendations from WHO and partners aim to help policymakers and doctors scale-up access to treatment and prevention services for HIV and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men and transgender people.	23 June 2011
Glastonbury-goers Get Sexual Health Support From Charity Terrence Higgins Trust, UK HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is providing six volunteer support workers at this year's Glastonbury Festival to help revellers look after their sexual health. THT volunteers will be running a daily sexual health stall in the Welfare zone, from 10:00am - 10:00pm from Thursday 23 June- Sunday 27 June, which festival-goers can visit to receive support, advice and free condoms.	23 June 2011

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