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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Misuse Of Epilepsy Drug Phenazepam In The UK In a letter published in this week's British Medical Journal (BMJ), it has stated that a drug used in the treatment of neurological diseases like epilepsy and anxiety is being misused by youth in the UK.	11 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Vitamin D And Transporter Proteins Hold Key To Prevent Alzheimer's Disease As we grow older our chances of developing Alzheimer's disease increase. This is attributed to the possible accumulation of a peptide amyloid beta in the brain. New research has shown that vitamin D is responsible for flushing out amyloid beta from the brain in addition to age-related alteration in the production of transporter proteins which move amyloid beta in and out of the brain.	11 July 2011
Advances In Research Into Alzheimer's Disease Advances in research into Alzheimer's disease: transporter proteins at the blood CSF barrier and vitamin D may help prevent amyloid β build up in the brainAdvancing age is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and is associated with build- up of the peptide amyloid β in the brain.	11 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Genetics Breakthrough Could Lead To New Arthritis Treatments, Australia Patients suffering from a painful form of arthritis, which fuses bones in the spine and pelvis, may have hope for the future development of new treatments due to a breakthrough discovery at The University of Queensland.	11 July 2011
Genetic Studies Improve Understanding Of Ankylosing Spondylitis A study involving over 5,000 people living with the joint disorder ankylosing spondylitis has identified a series of genetic variants associated with increased susceptibility to the condition as well as providing new clues to how the condition may be treated in the future.	11 July 2011
Vitamin D Insufficiency Prevalent Among Psoriatic Arthritis Suffers New research reports a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency among patients with psoriatic arthritis. Seasonal variation in vitamin D levels was not observed in patients in southern or northern locations.	11 July 2011
Knee Surgery, Loss Of Motion And Osteoarthritis Risk The onset of osteoarthritis may be related to a loss of knee motion after reconstructive ACL surgery, as noted in new research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, July 7-10, 2011.	11 July 2011
Range Of Motion In Common Hip Problem Improved By Arthroscopic Treatment Arthroscopic treatment of a common hip problem that leads to arthritis is successful in terms of restoring range of motion, according to results from a recent Hospital for Special Surgery study.	11 July 2011
Joint Replacement Surgery Of Hip Or Knee Less Likely For Male Smokers Surprising results from a new study revealed that men who smoke had less risk of undergoing total joint replacement surgery than those who never smoked. Researchers also reported that men who were overweight, or who engaged in vigorous physical activity were more likely to need arthroplasty.	11 July 2011

Autism News
Neonatal And Perinatal Factors May Contribute Towards Autism Risk Problems and complications that occur during and shortly after childbirth might contribute towards the risk of a child subsequently having autism, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Brown university reported in the medical journal Pediatrics.	11 July 2011
Seaside Therapeutics Presents Data On Potential Pharmaceutical Treatment For Improving Social Impairment In Autism Spectrum Disorders Seaside Therapeutics announced that data on its clinical candidate, STX209, was presented today in an oral presentation at the 42nd Autism Society National Conference in Orlando, FL, by Barbara Rathmell, M.	11 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Pitt Researchers Find New Way To Classify Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients, Improving Ability To Predict Outcomes A new method for scoring the severity of illness for patients after cardiac arrest may help to predict their outcomes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.	11 July 2011
MicroOCT May Greatly Improve Understanding, Diagnosis And Treatment Of Coronary Artery Disease Researchers at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a one-micrometer-resolution version of the intravascular imaging technology optical coherence tomography (OCT) that can reveal cellular and subcellular features of coronary artery disease.	11 July 2011
Researchers Reprogram Brain Cells To Become Heart Cells For the past decade, researchers have tried to reprogram the identity of all kinds of cell types. Heart cells are one of the most sought-after cells in regenerative medicine because researchers anticipate that they may help to repair injured hearts by replacing lost tissue.	11 July 2011
Association Between Heart Disease And Stroke Worldwide An analysis of heart disease and stroke statistics collected in 192 countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the relative burden of the two diseases varies widely from country to country and is closely linked to national income, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).	11 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Safe Human-Robot Interaction Without Protective Barriers The modern working world is no longer conceivable without robots. They assist humans in manufacturing, laboratories or medicine. In the future, a new projection and camera-based system will prevent collisions between robots and humans working together.	11 July 2011
Mathematical Modeling Technique Reveals Mutations That Cause HIV-Drug Resistance Protease inhibitor drugs are one of the major weapons in the fight against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but their effectiveness is limited as the virus mutates and develops resistance to the drugs over time.	11 July 2011

Mental Health News
Seaside Therapeutics Presents Data On Potential Pharmaceutical Treatment For Improving Social Impairment In Autism Spectrum Disorders Seaside Therapeutics announced that data on its clinical candidate, STX209, was presented today in an oral presentation at the 42nd Autism Society National Conference in Orlando, FL, by Barbara Rathmell, M.	11 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News

Caloric Restriction Prevents Egg-Cell Defects In Aging Mice, Drugs Under Development May Have Same Protective Effects A strategy that has been shown to reduce age-related health problems in several animal studies may also combat a major cause of age-associated infertility and birth defects. Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have shown that restricting the caloric intake of adult female mice prevents a spectrum of abnormalities, such as extra or missing copies of chromosomes, that arise more frequently in egg cells of aging female mammals.

11 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
New Gonorrhea Drug Resistant Strain Realized; Global Threat A new strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health, according to an international research team that has uncovered a variant that is resistant to all currently available antibiotics.	11 July 2011
Men Just Want To Be Held Study Finds; Women Like Sex More Over Time 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.	11 July 2011
Discovery Of First Gonorrhea Strain Resistant To All Available Antibiotics An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new strain is likely to transform a common and once easily treatable infection into a global threat to public health.	11 July 2011

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