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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
NZMA Supports Tougher Controls On Herbal Drugs Market, New Zealand The New Zealand Medical Association (NZMA) strongly supports the Ministry of Health's ban of a second synthetic cannabis product and is calling for significantly tougher legislation on these products.	04 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
West Carroll Health Systems Achieves Stage 1 Meaningful Use With Healthland Electronic Health Record Solution Healthland, America's market leader of healthcare information technology solutions for rural hospitals, today announced that its client, West Carroll Health Systems, has achieved Stage 1 Meaningful Use.	04 July 2011
A Citizen's Radiation Dosimeter That Fits In The Wallet No matter how many plastic cards currently crowd your wallet, one day you may wish to make room for one more. The Department of Homeland Security(DHS)'s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has developed a miniaturized version of a dosimeter, a portable device used for measuring exposure to ionizing radiation, which can provide life-saving early detection in the unlikely event of a nuclear accident or dirty bomb.	04 July 2011
Lift Ban On The Use Of Smartphones, States CMAJ Editorial In today's modern healthcare industry where the development of new devices is enabling patients' to live their lives better, it is time to put an end to the ban on the use of smartphones, as they too offer technology that has potential to benefit patients.	04 July 2011

Mental Health News
College Responds To Dilnot Report Into The Funding Of Long-term Care, UK Commenting on the report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support (the Dilnot report), Dr Peter Connelly, chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of the Psychiatry of Old Age, said: "We greatly welcome this report.	04 July 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News

Statement: APhA Supports The Formation Of Senate Community Pharmacy Caucus By Senators Jon Tester And Jerry Moran The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) applauds U.S. Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) for creating the bipartisan Senate Community Pharmacy Caucus. The Caucus was formed to advocate for the needs of community pharmacies and to promote the important role they play in the health care system.

04 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Spiders' Web Weaving Skills Provide Clues To Aging Young house spiders weave webs with perfect angles and regular patterns, but as they reach old age their webs deteriorate, showing gaping holes and erratic weaving.By using spiders as a simple model this research may provide insight into how age affects behaviour in other organisms, including humans.	04 July 2011
Research Marks Step Toward Treatments For Aging- And Disease-Related Destabilization Of Gene Expression U-M research marks step toward treatments for aging- and disease-related destabilization of gene expressionAs our bodies first form, developing cells are a lot like children put on the school bus with their names and addresses pinned to their shirts.	04 July 2011

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