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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Aussies Will Warning Label Liquor To Curb Youth, Binge Drinking Since 2006, Australia has had graphic image warnings on cigarette packages. Now announced this week, the liquor industry is volunteering to label its products with health warnings also. About 80% of alcohol sold in the country will carry the warnings.	12 July 2011
Do Instinctive Salt Cravings Make You A Real Junkie? Scientists have found that addictive drugs may take over the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that cause one's chemistry to crave salt in their daily routines in a new study from down under Australia in association with America's own Duke University.	12 July 2011
Moderate Drinkers Experience Lower Mortality Rates Than Abstainers The author of this paper set out to determine the extent to which potential "errors" in many early epidemiologic studies led to erroneous conclusions about an inverse association between moderate drinking and coronary heart disease (CHD).	12 July 2011
Screening College Drinkers For Alcohol-Induced Blackouts "I don't remember how I got home from the party." This could be a text from last night to one hard-partying college student from another. New research from Northwestern Medicine shows that 50 percent of college drinkers report at least one alcohol-induced memory blackout - a period of amnesia - in the past year during a drinking binge.	12 July 2011
Reasons For Marijuana Use May Be Different For Athletes College athletes tend to be less likely than their non-athlete peers to smoke marijuana. But when they do, they may have some different reasons for it, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.	12 July 2011
Guidelines For Alcohol Consumption Are Inadequate For Cancer Prevention Current alcohol consumption guidelines are inadequate for the prevention of cancer and new international guidelines are needed, states an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).	12 July 2011
Drug Addiction And Salt Appetite Linked A team of Duke University Medical Center and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs may have hijacked the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that serve a powerful, ancient instinct: the appetite for salt.	12 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's Disease Lesions In The Brain May Be Located By Positron Emission Tomography According to two articles published recently in the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, imaging of the brain with positron emission tomography (PET) can help locate the brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).	12 July 2011
A New Molecular Road With Potential Implications To The Treatment Of Alzheimer How does a cell distribute recently synthesized molecules to the places where they are necessary? A study just published in the journal Nature Cell Biology by French and Portuguese scientists is helping to uncover the answer by describing a molecular mechanism involved in the distribution of new molecules, in a discovery that can have implications for the treatment of diseases as diverse as cancer and Alzheimer.	12 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Genetic Study Sheds New Light On Auto-Immune Arthritis The team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Queensland (Australia), Oxford, Texas and Toronto, used a technique called genome-wide association where millions of genetic markers are measured in thousands of people that have the disease and thousands of healthy individuals.	12 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Immune Responses To Flu Shots Predicted By Quick Test Researchers at the Emory Vaccine Center have developed a method for predicting whether someone will produce high levels of antibodies against a flu shot a few days after vaccination.After scanning the extent to which carefully selected genes are turned on in white blood cells, the researchers can predict on day three, with up to 90 percent accuracy, who will make high levels of antibodies against a standard flu shot four weeks later.

12 July 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Affordable Insurance Exchanges - Providing Same Health Insurance Choices As Members Of Congress Have The HHS (US Department of Health and Human Services) has introduced its proposal - Affordable Insurance Exchanges - the aim being to have state-based competitive marketplaces where people and smaller businesses can buy private health insurance at reasonable prices.	12 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Revisions To Guidelines For PCI Use Have Not Translated Into Effective Clinical Practice For Myocardial Infarction Patients Although guidelines are available for the appropriate use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with a blocked coronary artery post myocardial infarction (heart attack), their adoption in clinical practice is still questionable.	12 July 2011
Writing DNR Orders Takes Longer, Death More Likely When Surrogate Decision-Maker Involved Indiana University and Regenstrief Institute researchers report that it takes significantly longer for orders to forgo resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest to be written for patients who had that decision made for them by a surrogate decision-maker compared to patients who made their own decisions, even though patients with a surrogate were sicker and the resuscitation issue might arise sooner.	12 July 2011
High Sodium, Low Potassium Intake Tied To Higher Risk Of Death In US The average American diet appears to have the ratio the wrong way round: high sodium and low potassium, which increases risk of death, instead of low sodium and higher potassium, which reduces it, according to a new study led by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine this week.	12 July 2011
Artery-Opening Procedure Still Widely Used In Spite Of Changed Guidelines Despite changes in standard treatment practice guidelines issued by the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology several years ago, there has been no meaningful change in the nation's practice of opening completely blocked coronary arteries with balloons and stents in the days after a heart attack, according to a new study published in the July 11, 2011, issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.	12 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Study Offers Means Of Activating T Cells To Fight Disease Without Antigenic Triggers A genome-wide survey by researchers at The Wistar Institute shows how our cells create alternate versions of mRNA transcripts by altering how they "read" DNA. Many genes are associated with multiple gene promoters, the researchers say, which is the predominant way multiple variants of a given gene, for example, can be made with the same genetic instructions.	12 July 2011
Virtual-Reality-Based Rehab For Parkinson's Disease Patients In people with Parkinson's Disease (PD), the inability to make quick movements limits basic functioning in daily life. Movement can be improved by various cueing techniques, such as providing visual or auditory stimuli when movements are started.	12 July 2011
Just Like Teens, Parents Get Personal On Facebook They may not dress like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez, but parents are a whole lot like their teenagers when it comes to their behaviour on Facebook. That's the finding of a new study by University of Guelph researchers.	12 July 2011
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine: July/August 2011 Power and Potential of Mobile Sensing Devices to Improve Health Care Researchers from Dartmouth offer a provocative glimpse into the possibilities of wireless mobile technology to measure elderly patients' physical activity and social interactions and improve detection of changes in their health.	12 July 2011

Mental Health News
Pets Provide Key Social And Emotional Support Pet owners appear to fare better than other people with regard to physical fitness, self-esteem, being conscientious, being more socially communicative, not worrying so much about things, and being less fearful in general, researchers revealed in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.	12 July 2011
Resilience Amongst The Long Term Ill People who have a long term debilitating physical illness demonstrate mental resilience according to Understanding Society, the world's largest longitudinal household study. The first findings reveal that people diagnosed with cancer, diabetes, respiratory or cardiovascular disease report similar mental health scores to those without physical illness.	12 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Palliative Care Lagging Behind In Georgia Hospitals Hospitals across the nation are increasingly implementing palliative care programs to help patients manage the physical and emotional burdens of serious illnesses, but a new University of Georgia study finds that 82 percent of the state's hospitals do not offer palliative care services.	12 July 2011

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