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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Ecuador Bans Alcohol Following Deaths From Poisoning The government of Ecuador has imposed a nationwide 72-hour ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol after receiving reports that 21 people had died from poisoning after consuming adulterated alcohol.	18 July 2011
Binging Alcohol Abuse Leads To Loss Of Working Memory In Teens Teenagers' brains are still developing during those years and binge drinking is a problem for many adolescents. A new study has shown damage to these youth's ability to perceive their environment or their surroundings at a critical time when their brains are still developing, making binge drinking a growing epidemic.	18 July 2011
Chinese Culture Encourages Binge Drinking In Middle Aged Men A nationwide study confirms that binge drinking has reached epidemic proportions in China and argues that efforts to tackle the problem must address the country's unique drinking culture. In this study, published online today in the journal Addiction, binge drinking was defined as consuming 50g or more pure alcohol in one day for men (about five 330ml tins of beer), and 40g or more for women.	18 July 2011
Problem Adolescent Drinking Spurred By Response To Alcohol, Peers, Expectancies, And Coping A low level of response (LR) to alcohol is one of several genetically influenced characteristics that may increase an individual's risk for heavy drinking and alcohol problems. A new study has confirmed key elements of a LR-based model of risk through examination of a large sample of adolescent boys and girls in the United Kingdom, moving beyond smaller U.	18 July 2011
Left And Right Ventricles Of The Heart React Differently To Low Amounts Of Alcohol Few studies have examined the acute effects of alcohol on myocardial or heart function. While moderate-to-high blood concentrations of alcohol acutely impair conventional echocardiographic measures of left ventricular (LV) performance, the effects of low concentrations are unclear.	18 July 2011
Two-Way Link Between Stress And Alcohol Acute stress is thought to precipitate alcohol drinking. Yet the ways that acute stress can increase alcohol consumption are unclear. A new study investigated whether different phases of response to an acute stressor can alter the subjective effects of alcohol.	18 July 2011
Binge Drinking In Adolescence Poses Threat To Spatial Working Memory Binge or "heavy episodic" drinking is prevalent during adolescence, raising concerns about alcohol's effects on crucial neuromaturational processes during this developmental period. Heavy alcohol use has been associated with decrements in cognitive functioning in both adult and adolescent populations, particularly on tasks of spatial working memory (SWM).	18 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Mild Cognitive Impairment A Risk Factor For Retired NFL Players Retired NFL football players are at higher risk for mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, a Loyola University Health System study has found.A screening survey of 513 retired players and their wives found that 35 percent of the players had scores suggesting possible mild cognitive impairment (MCI).	18 July 2011
Falls More Common In Early Alzheimer's Falls are more common in people with the earliest signs of Alzheimer's Disease, according to new research from the US presented at a conference in Paris at the weekend, where delegates learned how cognitively healthy older adults with and without preclinical Alzheimer's had twice the risk of falls if PET scans of their brains showed signs of beta-amyloid plaques, one of the hallmarks of the disease.	18 July 2011
News From The 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Paris, France July 16-21 Experts from the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at NYU Langone Medical Center are presenting new research at the 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's disease being held in Paris, France from July 16 - 21.	18 July 2011
Speeding Drug Development With Center For Comprehensive Alzheimer's Disease Research At Gladstone The Gladstone Institutes have announced plans to create a Center for Comprehensive Alzheimer's Disease Research, offering new hope for the millions of families stricken by this debilitating neurodegenerative disease.	18 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
2011-2012 Flu Vaccines Approved By FDA Six manufacturers have had their flu vaccines approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) for the coming 2011-2012 season. The Agency explained in a communiqué that vaccination is crucial in the drive to control influenza, a contagious respiratory infection caused by influenza virus strains.	18 July 2011
Novartis Begins Shipment Of Fluvirin® Seasonal Influenza Vaccine To US Customers For 2011-2012 Influenza Season Novartis announced today that the Company has started shipping seasonal influenza vaccine to its US customers for the 2011-2012 influenza season. Early delivery of seasonal influenza vaccine will ensure healthcare professionals have the ability to provide the earliest possible protection against influenza.	18 July 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Success Of Massachusetts Health-Care Reform May Steer National Debate Recent research conducted at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health may have strong implications for informing the controversial debate currently surrounding national health care reform.	18 July 2011
Study Findings Reveal New Massachusetts Model Significantly Outperforms Current Fee-For-Service System In a new study with implications for state and federal efforts to reform payments to doctors and hospitals to encourage greater coordination of care, Harvard Medical School researchers found that a global payment system underway in Massachusetts lowered medical spending while improving the quality of patient care relative to the traditional fee-for-service system.	18 July 2011

Mental Health News
Forest Laboratories, Inc. And Pierre Fabre Medicament Announce Positive Phase III Results With Levomilnacipran In Patients With MDD Forest Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: FRX) and Pierre Fabre Medicament today announced preliminary top-line results from a Phase III study of levomilnacipran for the treatment of adults with major depressive disorder (MDD).	18 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Falls More Common In Early Alzheimer's Falls are more common in people with the earliest signs of Alzheimer's Disease, according to new research from the US presented at a conference in Paris at the weekend, where delegates learned how cognitively healthy older adults with and without preclinical Alzheimer's had twice the risk of falls if PET scans of their brains showed signs of beta-amyloid plaques, one of the hallmarks of the disease.	18 July 2011
Increased Surveillance Of Nursing Home Residents Following Changes In Medication May Decrease Falls Nursing home residents taking certain antidepressant medications are at an increased risk of falling in the days following the start of a new prescription or a dose increase of their current drug, according to a new study by the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.	18 July 2011
News From The 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Paris, France July 16-21 Experts from the Center of Excellence on Brain Aging at NYU Langone Medical Center are presenting new research at the 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's disease being held in Paris, France from July 16 - 21.	18 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News

AiCuris' Novel HSV Compound AIC316 Shows Efficacy In Phase II Phase II results for AiCuris' novel non-nucleosidic herpes simplex virus (HSV) inhibitor AIC316 reveal safety and efficacy in persons with genital herpes. The data were presented at the 19th ISSTDR Meeting (International Society for Sexually Transmitted Diseases Research) in Quebec, Canada, by the coordinating investigator of the trial, Professor Anna Wald from the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA.

18 July 2011

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