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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News

Fellowships Awarded For Outstanding Research In Drug Use And HIV The International AIDS Society (IAS) and the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) have announced the recipients of their third annual joint research fellowships. Recipients of the prestigious awards will receive US$75,000 each to advance scientific understanding of the linkages between drug use and HIV while fostering multinational research.

14 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's Disease Signs Identified With PET Scan PET (positron emission tomography) scans can help detect plaques in the brain (amyloid lesions) which are associated with Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported in Archives of Neurology.The authors explain, as background information, that researchers are trying to understand AD more deeply, as well as other forms of dementia.	14 July 2011
Rice University Lab's Light-Switching Complex Attaches Itself To Amyloid Proteins, 'Lighting Up' Alzheimer's Roots A breakthrough in sensing at Rice University could make finding signs of Alzheimer's disease nearly as simple as switching on a light.The technique reported in the Journal of the American Chemical Society should help researchers design better medications to treat the devastating disease.	14 July 2011
Caring For Overall Health May Protect Against Dementia Caring for one's overall health, and paying attention to health factors not traditionally associated with dementia, such as vision and hearing and how well one's dentures fit, may reduce people's risk of developing it, according to a new study from Canada published online in the journal Neurology this week.	14 July 2011
Keeping Up Your Overall Health May Keep Dementia Away Improving and maintaining health factors not traditionally associated with dementia, such as denture fit, vision and hearing, may lower a person's risk for developing dementia, according to a new study published in the July 13, 2011, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.	14 July 2011

Dentistry News

Extended Medicaid Dental Care? Millions' Oral Health Badly Lacking Poor oral health can have dire consequences. Currently Medicaid benefits that cover dental care are only extended to children while more than 30 million Americans live in areas with too few dentists to meet their needs, and even still millions of children and retirees lack access to good oral health care because they can't afford it, a new government report finds.

14 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Don't Pass On H1N1 Fearing Guillain-Barre Researchers Ask Public It has been a long debate in the United States as to whether or not vaccines used to battle the H1N1 outbreaks of recent lead to the development of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare disorder that causes the body's immune system to turn against itself, resulting in muscle weakness and even paralysis.	14 July 2011
Dangerous Progeny Can Result When Flu Strains 'Hook Up' A new University of Maryland-led study finds that 'sex' between the virus responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic (H1N1) and a common type of avian flu virus (H9N2) can produce offspring - new combined flu viruses - with the potential for creating a new influenza pandemic.	14 July 2011
Inovio Pharmaceuticals Demonstrates Positive Immune Responses In Phase I Clinical Trial Of SynCon™ H5N1 Influenza Vaccine Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced today that significant T cell and antibody responses were generated in its Phase I clinical study of VGX-3400X, a SynCon™ DNA vaccine for the prevention of avian H5N1 influenza delivered using intramuscular (IM) electroporation.	14 July 2011
Study Points To New Approach To Influenza's Antiviral Resistance Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, with assistance from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, have found a new approach to the creation of customized therapies for virulent flu strains that resist current antiviral drugs.	14 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Pre-Participation ECGS Not The Most Accurate Method To Predict Cardiovascular Disease In Young Athletes Undiagnosed cardiovascular illness has been the cause of collapse during sports practice for a number of young athletes and the increasing reports of such cases is a cause of worry. In view of this, although some healthcare professionals have recommended that mandatory electrocardiogram (ECG) screenings be performed before participation in any sport, others have challenged the validity of such a requirement.	14 July 2011
Tiny Chemical Particles Emitted By Diesel Exhaust Fumes Could Raise The Risk Of Heart Attacks As Well As Damaging Lungs Tiny chemical particles emitted by diesel exhaust fumes could raise the risk of heart attacks, research has shown.Scientists have found that ultrafine particles produced when diesel burns are harmful to blood vessels and can increase the chances of blood clots forming in arteries, leading to a heart attack or stroke.	14 July 2011
Hypertensive Patients With CAD Risk Increase Of Adverse Events With Long-Term NSAID Use A study published in the July issue of The American Journal of Medicine, reports that among hypertensive patients with coronary artery disease, chronic self-reported use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) was associated with an increased risk of adverse events during long-term follow-up.	14 July 2011
New Method Defibrillates Heart With Much Less Electricity And Pain Cornell scientists, in collaboration with physicists and physician-scientists in Germany, France and Rochester, N.Y., have developed a new and much less painful and potentially damaging method to end life-threatening heart fibrillations.	14 July 2011
Heart Failure, Doing What Your Doctor Says Works Doctors have been dispensing advice to heart failure patients and for the first time researchers have found that it works. While self-care is believed to improve heart failure outcomes, a highlight of the recent American Heart Association scientific statement on promoting heart failure self-care was the need to establish the mechanisms by which self-care may influence neurohormonal, inflammatory, and hemodynamic function.	14 July 2011
New Programs Of Excellence To Study Sugar Molecules The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded two groups at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine each approximately $2.3 million a year for seven years to establish two Programs of Excellence in Glycosciences.	14 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Improving Surgical Outcomes For Children, Cancer Patients At UT Faculty and students at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin are developing ways for cancer patients and children born with facial deformities to make more informed decisions about which reconstructive surgeries would be most aesthetically pleasing and practical based on their individual body types and personal preferences.	14 July 2011
New Driving Simulator For Rehabilitation Created By Clemson And DriveSafety Clemson University researchers, working with simulation technology company DriveSafety, have developed a new driving simulator designed for patient rehabilitation that now is being used at 11 Army, Navy and Veterans Affairs facilities.	14 July 2011
Computation Of Gene Migration Helps Predict Movement Of Disease Until recently, migration patterns, such as those adopted by birds all across the Amazonian rainforest, have not been thought to play an important role in the spreading of beneficial genes through a population.	14 July 2011
IMobot Modular Robot Technology Licensed The University of California, Davis has signed an exclusive license agreement with Barobo, Inc. of West Sacramento, Calif., to commercialize the modular robot technology called "iMobot" - an Intelligent Modular Robot for applications in research, education, industry, search and rescue, military operation, and law enforcement.	14 July 2011
Neurons Connected To Computers To Decipher The Enigmatic Code Of Neuronal Circuits Machine logic is based on human logic. But although a computer processor can be dissembled and dissected in logical steps, the same is not true for the way our brains process information, says Mark Shein of Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering.	14 July 2011

Mental Health News
Leaders Have Higher Levels Of Stress Hormones In Their Bodies Being top of the pile has its advantages, you have more power, things are more likely to be done your way, but it comes at a price - your stress-hormone levels are likely to be considerably higher than others, Princeton University ecologists wrote in the journal Science.	14 July 2011
Omega-3 Reduces Anxiety And Inflammation In Healthy Students A new study gauging the impact of consuming more fish oil showed a marked reduction both in inflammation and, surprisingly, in anxiety among a cohort of healthy young people.The findings suggest that if young participants can get such improvements from specific dietary supplements, then the elderly and people at high risk for certain diseases might benefit even more.	14 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
African-Americans More Prone To Pressure Ulcers In Nursing Homes Black residents of nursing homes at high risk of having pressure ulcers are more likely to develop them compared to other high risk residents, especially in homes where a large proportion of residents are African-Americans, researchers from the University of Iowa reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).	14 July 2011
New Medicare-covered Fall Prevention Program For Seniors Unveiled ActiveRx Rehabilitation, a Chandler, Arizona-based wellness-oriented rehabilitation company specializing in active aging, is introducing a breakthrough Fall Risk Assessment and Fall Prevention Program for Medicare-eligible senior patients.	14 July 2011

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