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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
NIH Announces International Research Initiative To Improve Mental Health Mental health experts are calling for a greater world focus on improving access to care and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, as well as increasing discoveries in research that will enable this goal to be met.	07 July 2011
The Biology Behind Alcohol-Induced Blackouts A person who drinks too much alcohol may be able to perform complicated tasks, such as dancing, carrying on a conversation or even driving a car, but later have no memory of those escapades. These periods of amnesia, commonly known as "blackouts," can last from a few minutes to several hours.	07 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
More Support Needed For Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment In Emergency Departments More needs to be done to improve the care that older adults with cognitive impairment - including dementia and delirium - receive when they visit hospital emergency departments, according to a research review in the July issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.	07 July 2011
Metabolic Solutions Development Company Receives $773,000 From The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation To Fund Phase 2a Trial Metabolic Solutions Development Company (MSDC), a drug discovery and development company exploiting novel molecular targets to treat metabolic diseases, announced that it has received a $773,000 grant from the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) to conduct a pilot Phase 2a trial of MSDC-0160, MSDC's pioneer compound for the treatment of metabolic diseases associated with altered mitochondrial function.	07 July 2011
Anavex Rapidly Advances ANAVEX 2-73 For Alzheimer's Disease, Phase I Clinical Trial Progressing Well Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("Anavex") (OTCBB: AVXL) has commenced the 30 mg dose step in its ongoing Phase I clinical trial to evaluate ANAVEX 2-73, the company's lead drug candidate for Alzheimer's disease.	07 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Sunburn Pain Discovery Could Benefit Inflammation Conditions The discovery that a protein called CXCL5 is responsible for triggering the pain of sunburn may indicate it has a wider role in other inflammation-related conditions. This could pave the way for new drugs that have fewer side effects than current painkillers and analgesics, said UK researchers whose work is published in 6 July issue of Science Translational Medicine.	07 July 2011
Potential New Pain Relief For Inflammatory Conditions Following Discovery Of Why Sunburn Hurts Researchers at King's College London have found a molecule in the body which controls sensitivity to pain from UVB irradiation, identifying it as a new target for medicines to treat pain caused by other common inflammatory conditions such as arthritis.	07 July 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Insurance Status Affects Outcomes For Cardiac Valve Procedure Patients The type of primary insurance patients carry affects outcomes of cardiac valve operations in the United States according to a study in the May issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.	07 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Gender Effect On Survival Following Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgeries New data in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery®, the official publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery®, compares the effects of gender on long-term survival in different types of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair.	07 July 2011
How To Replace A Major Heart Valve Without Surgery Toni Meyer's heart-valve disease was so severe that she suffered shortness of breath even while sitting in a chair.But after Loyola University Hospital physicians replaced her diseased aortic valve in a catheter procedure as part of a clinical trial, Meyer said she is feeling "100 percent better.	07 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Artificial Sight On View In London If you find yourself in central London this week with a spare hour or two, drop into the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition 2011, it's on until the 10th of July, and there you will see an amazing exhibit about how scientists are using the latest technology to create "artificial sight" to help blind and partially-sighted people.	07 July 2011
Tracking Public Health Trends With Twitter Twitter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or less on just about anything: an actor's outlandish behavior, an earthquake's tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich.	07 July 2011
Back Straight Boys Educate Community On Proper Computer Posture Move over, boy bands of America - there's a new group in town. Four middle-school students from Carmel Valley Middle School in San Diego, California, entered The Christopher Columbus Awards Competition, a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) program that challenges middle-school students to identify a community problem and solve it using science and technology.	07 July 2011
Lens-Free, Pinhead-Size Camera Developed By Cornell It's like a Brownie camera for the digital age: The microscopic device fits on the head of a pin, contains no lenses or moving parts, costs pennies to make - and this Cornell-developed camera could revolutionize an array of science from surgery to robotics.	07 July 2011
New Algorithm Could Help Prevent Midair Collisions, Which Involve 10 To 12 Small Aircraft Every Year. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that by 2020, all commercial aircraft - and small aircraft flying near most airports - must be equipped with a new tracking system that broadcasts GPS data, providing more accurate location information than ground-based radar.	07 July 2011
Fertility Europe Launches The Special Families Campaign Couples with fertility problems need hope and reliable information. In order to provide them with both, in June 2011 Fertility Europe launched in 19 European countries the first Special Families Campaign on http://www.	07 July 2011

Mental Health News
Link Established Between More Patients Being Detained In Hospitals Involuntarily And Fewer Mental Illness Beds According to a recent study published on bmj.com, in the last 21 years hospitals across England have seen a tremendous increase in the number of patients being detained for mental illness while concurrently there has been a reduction in the number of beds for patients with this disorder.	07 July 2011
NIH Announces International Research Initiative To Improve Mental Health Mental health experts are calling for a greater world focus on improving access to care and treatment for mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders, as well as increasing discoveries in research that will enable this goal to be met.	07 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
More Support Needed For Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment In Emergency Departments More needs to be done to improve the care that older adults with cognitive impairment - including dementia and delirium - receive when they visit hospital emergency departments, according to a research review in the July issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.	07 July 2011
When A Sneeze Is Enough To Break A Bone Loyola University Hospital is launching an interdisciplinary Geriatric Fracture Program to reduce hospital stays and complications from broken hips and other age-related fractures.Many elderly patients who break bones have underlying health conditions such as heart failure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that can delay surgery.	07 July 2011
New Device Helps The Blind To Move Independently A team of engineers from the Research Center for Graphic Technologies (CITG) of the Universitat Politècnica de València, coordinated by Guillermo Peris Fajarnés, have developed a new device that helps the blind to move independently.	07 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
An Unhealthy Lifestyle Is Associated With Sexual Dysfunction A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine reveals that several unhealthy lifestyle factors, such as weight problems, physical inactivity, high alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking, and hard drugs are associated with sexual dysfunctions in men.	07 July 2011
Men Love To Cuddle, Women Love Sex More Over Time Global Research Says A new international, global study that included more than 1,000 couples from the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Spain, found that tenderness is more important to men than to women overall.	07 July 2011

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