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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Levamisole-Contaminated Cocaine Triggers Decaying, Dying Skin If the obvious reasons for avoiding recreational drug use aren't off-putting enough, physicians have yet another detrimental consequence to add to the list - crusty, purplish areas of dead skin that are extremely painful and can open the door to nasty infections.	24 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
'Molecular Cap' Blocks Processes That Lead To Alzheimer's, HIV A new advance by UCLA biochemists has brought scientists one step closer to developing treatments that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease and prevent the sexual transmission of HIV.	24 June 2011
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Supports Axxam To Develop Novel Therapeutics For Alzheimer's Disease The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced that it has awarded a grant to Axxam SpA to develop small molecules to treat Alzheimer's disease by targeting inflammation. The award will fund a drug discovery project to identify compounds that block the puringeric receptor, P2X7, which is involved in inflammation in the brain.	24 June 2011
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.	24 June 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
NRAS Very Disappointed With Negative NICE Announcement For Abatacept In Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) NICE have issued a negative Final Appraisal Document (FAD) for abatacept, not recommending its use in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) following treatment failure with DMARDs. The biologic treatments which have been licensed for use post DMARD failure are TNF antagonists, tocilizumab, already rejected for use by NICE, and abatacept, also now rejected by NICE.	24 June 2011
'Simponi'® (golimumab) Receives Provisional Recommendation From NICE For The Treatment Of Ankylosing Spondylitis MSD today announced that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has, in its final appraisal determination (FAD), provisionally recommended 'Simponi'® (golimumab) as an option for the treatment of severe, active ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in adults.	24 June 2011

Headache / Migraine News
New Migraine Neurostimulation Treatment On The US Horizon? St. Jude Medical says it is seeking European regulatory permission to sell a device that somewhat alleviates migraine headaches. Yes, "somewhat" as initial testing has fallen short of the FDA's overall goals, but even so, a quarter of the group experienced a decrease in headaches.	24 June 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News

Medical Researchers Can Set The Stage For Health Insurance Reimbursement Medical researchers have a critical role to play in gaining optimal health insurance reimbursement for MR-guided focused ultrasound. As Susan Klees, Director of Patient Access for the Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation, reports, "Scientific evidence is the key driver for reimbursement, and it all begins with the way studies are designed.

24 June 2011

Heart Disease News
200,000 Patients Treated For Cardiac Arrest Annually In U.S. Hospitals More than 200,000 people are treated for cardiac arrest in United States hospitals each year, a rate that may be on the rise. The findings are reported online this week in Critical Care Medicine in a University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine-led study.	24 June 2011
Fire Department Seeks Federal Funding For Firefighter Screening With Cambridge Heart's Sudden Cardiac Arrest Diagnostic Test Cambridge Heart, Inc. (OTCBB: CAMH), a developer of non-invasive diagnostic tests for cardiac disease, today announced that the Freeport, Maine Fire Department has applied for a federal grant to establish firefighter screenings for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) risk to include the company's Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) non-invasive diagnostic test.	24 June 2011
'Good' Cholesterol Function As Important As Its Levels High levels of "good" cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) are associated with a decreased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) - a disease of the major arterial blood vessels that is one of the major causes of heart attack and stroke.	24 June 2011
FDA Advisory Committee Strongly Recommends Approval And Self-Administration Of FIRAZYR® (icatibant) For The Treatment Of Acute Attacks Angioedema Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced that the Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended, by a vote of twelve to one, that the efficacy and safety data provides substantial evidence to support approval of FIRAZYR® (icatibant) for the treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in patients 18 years and older.	24 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Innovative Study Outlines Strategies To Combat Obesity Food cravings can be overwhelming. The health effects can be deadly. It's not a drug; it's food. The University of Houston's Tracey Ledoux, assistant professor of health and human performance, is using an innovative approach to studying food addictions in hopes of finding strategies to assess and treat them.	24 June 2011
UQ Telehealth Technology Helps Patients In The Bush, Australia A virtual rehabilitation clinic developed by University of Queensland researchers is helping treat patients in remote and regional Australia. UQ's main commercialisation company, UniQuest, and start-up company NeoRehab Pty Ltd, are developing and marketing the eHAB® telehealth system for allied health professionals.	24 June 2011
Youth Cybercrime Linked To Friends' Influence Peer influence and low self-control appear to be the major factors fueling juvenile cybercrime such as computer hacking and online bullying, according to a new study led by a Michigan State University criminologist.	24 June 2011
New Ultrasound Tools For Health Care In Orbit And On Earth The remoteness and resource limitations of spaceflight pose a serious challenge to astronaut health care. One solution is ultrasound.Scientists with the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) have developed tools that expand the use of ultrasound during spaceflight and on Earth, especially in rural and underserved locations.	24 June 2011
New Online Training Assists GPs With Cancer Screening, Australia A new interactive online educational activity on cancer screening has been released to assist GPs. Developed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP), National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre (NBOCC) and Cancer Council Australia, Cancer Screening is an evidence-based, educational module which examines the criteria used to decide which cancers are suitable for a population screening program, including the overall potential benefits and harms.	24 June 2011
Improving Informatics Skills For Clinicians, New Foundation Incorporates Focused on better preparing the clinical workforce to use technology and informatics to improve the delivery of patient care, Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform - or TIGER - becomes the TIGER Initiative Foundation, effective July 1, 2011.	24 June 2011
Free App Provides DNA Data For Researchers: The Human Genome -- Now On An IPad Near You Navigating the human genome with software that you can view on an iPad® sounds pretty impressive, until perhaps you reflect that nature has already encoded trillions of copies of this in your chromosomes.	24 June 2011

Mental Health News
Higher Suicide Risk For LGBT Surfaces In Community Study; Being "Out" Is Healthier A first-ever research study of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Nebraska has determined that the LGBT population has a significantly higher incidence of suicidal thoughts.	24 June 2011
RACGP Welcomes Senate Inquiry Into Mental Health Funding Cuts, Australia The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has welcomed the move yesterday to hold a Senate Inquiry into the Federal Government's decision to cut the Medicare patient rebates for GP mental health services in the 2011-2012 Federal Budget.	24 June 2011
'Motivational' Interviews Reduce Depression, Increase Survival After Stroke Patients who received several sessions of a "motivational interview" early after a stroke had normal mood, fewer instances of depression and greater survival rates at one year compared to patients who received standard stroke care, according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.	24 June 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Stay Safe This Summer With Chlamydia Prevention Advice From NHS Choices With fun times ahead as the festival and holiday season approaches, NHS Choices has compiled the following advice to help avoid catching Chlamydia this summer. Chlamydia is the most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the UK, affecting both men and women.	24 June 2011

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