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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Teen Drug Use At Epidemic Levels; Smoking Is Main Gateway Almost a quarter of all youth that begin smoking, drinking or using drugs of any kind before the age of 18 go on to become severely addicted to some sort of drug in adulthood according to a new study released this week by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA).	29 June 2011
Range Of Measures Needed To Tackle Alcohol Misuse - Doctors, Northern Ireland Doctors today (Wednesday, 29 June 2011) called for wide-ranging measures to be implemented to curb health risks due to alcohol consumption.Dr Paul Darragh, Chairman of the BMA's Council in Northern Ireland said, "Alcohol misuse in Northern Ireland costs our economy almost £700 million pounds.	29 June 2011
Psychiatrists Concerned By Clear Links Between Alcohol And Increased Suicide Rate In Northern Ireland The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland has expressed serious concerns at the stark link between alcohol use and the rising suicide rate, which is says underlines the need for minimum pricing for alcohol.	29 June 2011
Russian Government Urged By IAS To Radically Reassess Counterproductive Drug Policies As Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the Russian state Duma, calls for a "total war on drugs" to tackle Russia's growing drug problem, the International AIDS Society (IAS) urges the Russian government to radically reassess its approach to drug policy, and to accept that the war on drugs has failed dramatically from both a law enforcement and a public health perspective.	29 June 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News

Mechanism Uncovered By Which Chronic Stress Causes Brain Disease Chronic stress has long been linked with neurodegeneration. Scientists at USC now think they may know why.The study, which has tremendous implications for understanding and treating Alzheimer's disease, was published in the June issue of The FASEB Journal (the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology).

29 June 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News

Osteoarthritis Incidence Significantly Higher Among U.S. Military Personnel Compared To General Population New research shows significantly higher osteoarthritis (OA) incidence rates in military populations than among comparable age groups in the general population. The magnitude of the difference in OA rates between military service members and the general population also increased with advancing age category.

29 June 2011

Autism News
Effects Of Asperger Syndrome Noticeable In Babies People with Asperger syndrome have problems with social interaction and attentiveness, and are also sensitive to noise and light. Several of these characteristics were evident to parents during their child's first two years, reveals Petra Dewrang's thesis in psychology at the University of Gothenburg.	29 June 2011
Who's Happy? How Long We Look At Happy Faces Is In Our Genes All of us read other people's faces and we all depend on it particularly to identify them and to understand how they feel. A new study shows that how we look at each others' faces may be controlled by our genetic makeup, especially the cannabinoid receptor (CNR1) gene.	29 June 2011

Dentistry News
MetLife Selected As Provider For TRICARE Dental Program MetLife, which has been administering oral health benefits for U.S. workers and their families for nearly 50 years, has been chosen by TRICARE Management Activity to be the provider of comprehensive dental coverage to family members of uniformed services active duty personnel, as well as members of the selected reserve and individual ready reserve and their eligible family members around the world.	29 June 2011
Poor Oral Care May Cause Sexual Problems A recent study has revealed erectile dysfunction can be linked to gum disease.The research1, carried out on 70 male subjects, showed a correlation between gum disease and the ability to achieve an erection.	29 June 2011

Heart Disease News
Cardiovascular Health Challenges Addressed By Bioengineers Biomedical research at Arizona State University will be boosted with support from the American Heart Association for the work of three bioengineers.Grants from the association recently were awarded to Brent Vernon, associate professor, and David Frakes and Xiao Wang, assistant professors.	29 June 2011
Dyslipidaemias Management: First Joint ESC/EAS Guidelines Cardiovascular disease (CVD), driven by the global pandemics of obesity and diabetes, poses a daunting challenge to clinicians in the 21st century. Despite progress, there is still much to be done to improve the control of dyslipidaemia, a key risk factor.	29 June 2011
Researchers Develop New Gene Therapy For Heart Failure Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found in a Phase II trial that a gene therapy developed at Mount Sinai stabilized or improved cardiac function in people with severe heart failure.	29 June 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Working With Robots The National Science Foundation (NSF) will take the lead with three other federal government agencies to support the administration's National Robotics Initiative (NRI) and has released a solicitation for proposals.	29 June 2011
New Telehealth Arrangements Welcome But Need Adjustment To Maximise Benefits To Patients, Australia AMA Vice President, Professor Geoffrey Dobb, said today that the Government's new telehealth arrangements have the potential to improve access to quality medical services for people in rural, remote, and outer metropolitan areas over time.	29 June 2011
New Software Developed To Advance Brain Image Research A University of Colorado Boulder research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.	29 June 2011

Mental Health News
Should Loughner Be Forced Psych Meds? Courts Question Authority Jared Lee Loughner shot six people and wounded 13 others earlier this year including Representative Gabrielle Giffords, wife of one of the last U.S. astronauts in space shuttle travel, is scheduled to appear in court today for an emergency hearing to determine whether prison officials should stop forcing him to take anti-psychotic medication.	29 June 2011
Leave From Work For Mental Health Disability Recurs Sooner Than That For Physical Health Leave The recurrence of an employee's medical leave of absence from work tends to happen much sooner with a mental health leave than a physical one, a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study shows.	29 June 2011
Psychiatrists Concerned By Clear Links Between Alcohol And Increased Suicide Rate In Northern Ireland The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern Ireland has expressed serious concerns at the stark link between alcohol use and the rising suicide rate, which is says underlines the need for minimum pricing for alcohol.	29 June 2011
New Software Developed To Advance Brain Image Research A University of Colorado Boulder research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.	29 June 2011

Seniors / Aging News
New Classification Will Guide Assessment And Treatment Of Osteoporosis A new study brings the experience of physical therapists to a developing "Core Set" of criteria to guide evaluation and treatment for patients with osteoporosis, reports the April/June issue of the Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy, official journal of the Section on Geriatrics of the American Physical Therapy Association.	29 June 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Poor Oral Care May Cause Sexual Problems A recent study has revealed erectile dysfunction can be linked to gum disease.The research1, carried out on 70 male subjects, showed a correlation between gum disease and the ability to achieve an erection.	29 June 2011
Palatin Technologies, Inc. Initiates Enrollment In Phase 2b Trial With Bremelanotide In Women With Female Sexual Dysfunction Palatin Technologies, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PTN) announced that enrollment of patients has commenced in Palatin's Phase 2b clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of bremelanotide (previously called PT-141), an on-demand, first-in-class melanocortin agonist being developed for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD).	29 June 2011

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