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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Grape Seed May Ward Off Alzheimer's Grape seed contains natural antioxidants called polyphenols that may help ward off Alzheimer's Disease, according to researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City who write about their findings in a paper about to be published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.	15 July 2011

Dentistry News
Rapid Prototyping Comes To Dentistry What if, instead of waiting days or weeks for a cast to be produced and prosthetic dental implants, false teeth and replacement crowns to be made, your dentist could quickly scan your jaw and "print" your new teeth using a rapid prototyping machine known as a 3D printer?Researchers in Iran explain how medical imaging coupled with computer-aided design could be used to create a perfect-fit blueprint for prosthetic dentistry, whether to replace diseased or broken teeth and jaw bone.	15 July 2011
Dentists Can Identify People With Undiagnosed Diabetes In a study, Identification of unrecognized diabetes and pre-diabetes in a dental setting, published in the July 2011 issue of the Journal of Dental Research, researchers at Columbia University College of Dental Medicine found that dental visits represented a chance to intervene in the diabetes epidemic by identifying individuals with diabetes or pre-diabetes who are unaware of their condition.	15 July 2011

Heart Disease News
St. Jude Medical Announces European Approval Of First And Only Combined FFR And OCT System St. Jude Medical, Inc. (NYSE:STJ), a global medical device company, today announced it has received European CE Mark approval for its ILUMIEN™ system, the first integrated diagnostic technology that combines optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) technologies on one platform.	15 July 2011
Coronary Heart Disease Goes Unrecognized Of 180 patients in this study in whom a reference committee later identified coronary heart disease (CHD), 31.7% had originally been misdiagnosed by their family doctors as not having CHD ("false negative").	15 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Drchrono, Electronic Health Record Platform On The IPad, Closes $675,000 Second Round Of Funding Drchrono, a free iPad app, aims to digitize patient data as EHR (electronic health records) and bring up-to-date a cumbersome system of keeping manual charts. The company, called Drchrono, says it has closed $675,000 in second round funding.	15 July 2011
Rapid Prototyping Comes To Dentistry What if, instead of waiting days or weeks for a cast to be produced and prosthetic dental implants, false teeth and replacement crowns to be made, your dentist could quickly scan your jaw and "print" your new teeth using a rapid prototyping machine known as a 3D printer?Researchers in Iran explain how medical imaging coupled with computer-aided design could be used to create a perfect-fit blueprint for prosthetic dentistry, whether to replace diseased or broken teeth and jaw bone.	15 July 2011
Potential For New Biocompatible Electronics Using Soft Memory Technology Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments - opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices.	15 July 2011
Algorithm Provides New Insights Into Evolutionary Exodus Out Of Africa Researchers have probed deeper into human evolution by developing an elegant new technique to analyse whole genomes from different populations. One key finding from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute's study is that African and non-African populations continued to exchange genetic material well after migration out-of-Africa 60,000 years ago.	15 July 2011
Games For Health: Research, Development, And Clinical Applications - Groundbreaking New Journal On The Applications Of Digital Games To Human Health Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces the launch of Games for Health: Research, Development, and Clinical Applications (G4H), a new, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the development, use, and applications of game technology for improving physical and mental health and well-being.	15 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
The Secret To Successful Aging Whether we choose to accept or fight it, the fact is that we will all age, but will we do so successfully? Aging successfully has been linked with the "positivity effect", a biased tendency towards and preference for positive, emotionally gratifying experiences.	15 July 2011

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