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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Higher Cigarette Taxes Don't Deter All Smokers, Canada Raising taxes on cigarettes, a public health measure used by governments to encourage people to quit, doesn't motivate all smokers to stop the deadly habit. A study on the long-term impact of taxing cigarettes, led by two Concordia University economists and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, found higher taxes do prompt low-and middle-income earners to quit.	13 July 2011
Research Suggests That Clinical Symptoms Of Food Addiction Are Similar To Symptoms Of Drug Addiction Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, suggests that people can become dependent on highly palatable foods and engage in a compulsive pattern of consumption, similar to the behaviors we observe in drug addicts and those with alcoholism.	13 July 2011
Injection Drug Users In Greatest Need Of Substance Abuse Treatment Injection drug users are in greater need of substance abuse treatment compared to non-injecting drug users, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International."Our findings indicate that injection drug use is associated with substantially more substance abuse-related problems than non-injection drug use, including a higher prevalence of dependence, unemployment, and co-occurring mental and physical disorders," said Scott Novak, Ph.	13 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Cornell Researchers Connect Gene To Alzheimer's Precondition Connecting a human gene to the risk of developing the Alzheimer's precondition known as Mild Cognitive Impairment has been somewhat of a holy grail for scientists, but a team led by researchers from Cornell University has ended the quest.	13 July 2011
Canadian Researchers Receive $2.9 Million To Protect Against Prion Disease Outbreaks, Develop Novel Therapies To Treat Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Collaborative research groups at nine different universities, involving 55 different investigators across Canada, are poised to make significant advances in the understanding of prion and prion-like diseases in humans and animals.	13 July 2011
New Podcast About Needle-In-A-Haystack Search For New Drugs For Brain Diseases The scientific equivalent of searching for a needle in a haystack has paid off for researchers seeking leads for potential new medicines for Parkinson's Disease and other brain disorders. Chronicled in a new episode in the American Chemical Society's award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series, now online, it involved sifting through almost 390,000 chemical compounds.	13 July 2011
Cannabinoid-1 Receptor Protects The Brain From Aging Researchers from the Universities of Bonn and Mainz have discovered a mechanism that seems to protect the brain from aging. In experiments with mice, they switched off the cannabinoid-1 receptor.	13 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Roadblocks To Employment Identified By Scleroderma Study Systemic scleroderma has slowed Tracy Zinn but it has not stopped her from working. Thanks in part to determination and an accommodating employer, Zinn is now in her 13th year as an account executive for a firm that produces educational software.	13 July 2011
Sanofi And Regeneron Report Positive Phase 2b Trial Results With Sarilumab In Rheumatoid Arthritis Sanofi (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) announced results from Phase 2b trials in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with sarilumab (REGN88/SAR153191), a novel, high-affinity, subcutaneously administered, fully-human antibody targeting the interleukin-6 receptor (IL-6R).	13 July 2011
State Of The Science In The Prevention And Management Of Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis (OA) is a leading cause of disability in the United States, affecting 27 million Americans. In an effort to raise awareness and increase knowledge of OA among the nursing community, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the American Journal of Nursing and the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses will present a groundbreaking two-day symposium: "State-of-the-Science in the Prevention and Management of Osteoarthritis" on Thursday, July 14, and Friday, July 15.	13 July 2011

Autism News
Biomarker Identifyies Genes Linked To Autism Siblings of people with autism show a similar pattern of brain activity to that seen in people with autism when looking at emotional facial expressions. The University of Cambridge researchers identified the reduced activity in a part of the brain associated with empathy and argue it may be a 'biomarker' for a familial risk of autism.	13 July 2011

Dentistry News
Higher Medicaid Payment Levels To Dentists Increases Likelihood Of Children And Adolescents Receiving Dental Care According to a report published in the July 13 issue of JAMA, between the years 2000 and 2008, although children and adolescents in the U.S that had higher Medicaid payment levels to dentists were more likely to receive dental care, they still received dental care less often compared to children with private insurance.	13 July 2011
Research Group Headed By Professor Takashi Tsuji Demonstrates Regenerating "Fully Functional Bioengineered Mature Tooth Unit" Donor organ transplantation is currently an essential therapeutic approach to the replacement of a dysfunctional organ as a result of disease, injury or aging in vivo. Recent progress in the area of regenerative therapy has the potential to lead to bioengineered mature organ replacement in the future.	13 July 2011
Tooth Loss Risk Quantified In Post-Menopausal Women New research forecasts that over one in four post-menopausal women are likely to suffer from tooth loss over a five year period.A study of over 1,000 post-menopausal women indicates that around one in four are likely to suffer tooth loss over a five year period, and the risk increases to nearly 90 per cent if other risk factors are present, especially diabetes and if they smoke.	13 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Potential New Means Of Overcoming Antiviral Resistance In Influenza Could Aid Development Of Drugs Exploiting Flu Protein 'Pockets' UC Irvine researchers have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.Using powerful computer simulations, UCI's Rommie Amaro and Robin Bush created a method to predict how pocket structures on the surface of influenza proteins promoting viral replication can be identified as these proteins evolve, allowing for possible pharmaceutical exploitation.

13 July 2011

Heart Disease News
InfraReDx Initiates A Randomized Clinical Trial Of LipiScan IVUS™ Coronary Imaging Guidance To Prevent Heart Attacks During Stenting InfraReDx, Inc., a medical device company providing intelligent cardiovascular diagnostic imaging technologies, today announced enrollment of the first patient in its Phase 2 clinical trial, CANARY (Coronary Assessment by Near-infrared (NIR) of Atherosclerotic Rupture-prone Yellow).	13 July 2011
Levels Of Sodium And Potassium Intake Associated With Deaths Among U.S. Adults, Reveals New Study According to a new report published in the July 11 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, people with a high sodium intake are at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality.	13 July 2011
Risk Of Heart Attack, Death In HIV Patients Predicted By Heart Ultrasound An ultrasound test can tell if people with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and heart disease are at risk of heart attack or death, according to new research reported in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, an American Heart Association journal.	13 July 2011
Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factor For Sudden Cardiac Death In a large and comprehensive investigation into the underlying causes of sudden cardiac death (SCD) a surreptitious killer of hundreds of thousands annually in the United States researchers have discovered a variation in the genome's DNA sequence that is linked to a significant increase in a person's risk of SCD.	13 July 2011
Modified Fat Diet Key To Lowering Heart Disease Risk The debate between good fat versus bad fat continues, as a new evidence review finds that a modified fat diet and not a low fat diet might be the real key to reducing one's risk of heart disease.	13 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Students Develop Computerized System To Prevent SIDS A new system using video and computer software to monitor a baby that could be used to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), as well as for telemedicine applications, has been developed by two students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).	13 July 2011
Neurologist Develops New Educational Tool With a new application developed by a U-M neurologist, better understanding of the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system can be found right on your iPhone.Nerve Whiz is a free application for medical professionals interested in learning the complex anatomy of nerve roots, plexuses, and peripheral nerves.	13 July 2011
Psychologists Report That Popular TV Shows Teach Children Fame Is Most Important Value Fame is the No. 1 value emphasized by television shows popular with 9- to 11-year-olds, a dramatic change over the past 10 years, UCLA psychologists report in a new study.On a list of 16 values, fame jumped from the 15th spot, where it was in both 1987 and 1997, to the first spot in 2007.	13 July 2011
In-Car Internet Reduces Motorway Pile-Ups By 40 Percent According to the researchers from the University of Bologna (Italy) who designed the app, this automatic accident detection system could reduce the number of vehicles involved in pile-ups by up to 40 percent.	13 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Research Reveals That The Severity Of Spinal Cord Injury Has No Impact On How Adults Rate Their Health Severity of spinal cord injury in adults is not related to how they rate their health, Wayne State University researchers have found.In a study of self-rated health (SRH) published this month in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, Cathy Lysack, Ph.	13 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Family Planning In Conflict Many areas of the world are at war and both the conflict and aftermath have dire consequences for the health of people affected. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Conflict and Health reports that while women in war-torn areas want access to family planning, these services are often not available at local hospitals or health centers.	13 July 2011
Expert Calls For Testing And Mandatory Reporting Of Sexually Transmitted Parasite Trichomonas vaginalis A Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert is calling for all sexually active American women age 40 and older to get tested for the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis after new study evidence found that the sexually transmitted disease (STD) is more than twice as common in this age group than previously thought.	13 July 2011

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