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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
50% Of Alzheimer's Cases Preventable With Lifestyle Changes More than 50% of cases of Alzheimer's Disease could be prevented through lifestyle changes and reducing major risk factors like low education, smoking, lack of exercise, and treating and preventing chronic conditions like depression, diabetes and mid-life high blood pressure and obesity, say researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).	19 July 2011
Study Reveals That Over Half Of Alzheimer's Cases May Be Preventable Over half of all Alzheimer's disease cases could potentially be prevented through lifestyle changes and treatment or prevention of chronic medical conditions, according to a study led by Deborah Barnes, PhD, a mental health researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.	19 July 2011
New Study Shows Nearly Half Of Newly Diagnosed Mild Alzheimer's Disease Patients Also Suffer From Apathy And Depression Results from a new French study reveal that nearly half of newly diagnosed patients with mild Alzheimer's disease also suffer from apathy and depression. The study also showed that this group of patients received significantly more social assistance, was less autonomous and had a lower daily activity functioning score.	19 July 2011
Alzheimer's Association® TrialMatch™ Connects More Than 2,500 People With Alzheimer's Clinical Trials Nationwide When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2010, Dr. Denise Canchola immediately recognized the importance of enrolling her in a clinical trial. But even Dr. Canchola, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner based in Pompano Beach, FL, needed help and resources to search for clinical trials near her mother Gabriela's hometown of San Antonio, TX.	19 July 2011
Women At The Center Of The Global Alzheimer's Epidemic Today the Alzheimer's Association® in conjunction with GE Healthcare held a "Women and Alzheimer's: A Global Perspective" panel discussion during the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2011 (AAIC).	19 July 2011
Satori Pharmaceuticals Demonstrates Its Approach To Modulating Gamma-Secretase Effective In Reducing Plaque-Forming Amyloid Beta Peptide Satori™ Pharmaceuticals announced the presentation of two posters at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease (ICAD) taking place in Paris, France, July 16-21, 2011.	19 July 2011
Single Brain Trauma May Direct Lead To Alzheimer's Disease Over Time Over 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury each year, and beyond the immediate effects, growing evidence demonstrates that a single traumatic brain injury, or TBI, may initiate long term processes that further damage the brain.	19 July 2011
How A Gene Linked To Both Alzheimer's Disease And Type 2 Diabetes Works Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified how a gene for a protein that can cause Type 2 diabetes, also possibly kills nerve cells in the brain, thereby contributing to Alzheimer's disease.	19 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News

New Use For An Old Drug: Chloroquine Finding May Lead To Treatments For Arthritis, Cancer, And Other Diseases In a study published recently in the journal Science Signaling Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists demonstrate on the molecular level how the anti-malaria drug chloroquine represses inflammation, which may provide a blueprint for new strategies for treating inflammation and a multitude of autoimmune diseases such as arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and certain cancers.

19 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Married Men Faster At Getting Help For Heart Attacks Married men, as well as men who are in long-term relationships with a live-in partner are faster at seeking medical help for a heart attack compared to widowed, single or divorced males, researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences reported in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).	19 July 2011
Sapien Heart Valve That Avoids Open Heart Surgery Impresses FDA Reviewers But Safety Concerns Remain Edwards Lifesciences' new Sapien transcatheter heart valve, an experimental device designed to be inserted through an artery without the need for open heart surgery, appears to have impressed US federal health reviewers, who said in documents released on Monday that the valve "demonstrated superiority" in trials.	19 July 2011
New Target For Lowering Cholesterol High levels of 'bad' cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) are a risk factor for developing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) - a disease of the major arterial blood vessels that is one of the major causes of heart attack and stroke.	19 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Keeping It Simple: Increasing Complexity Of Models Does Not Necessarily Increase Their Accuracy Mathematical modeling of infectious diseases is an important tool in the understanding and prediction of epidemics. Knowledge of social interactions is used to understand how infectious diseases spread through populations and how to control epidemics.	19 July 2011
Coriell Institute Teams With IBM To Advance Personalized Medicine IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced that Coriell Institute for Medical Research, the largest biobank of living human cells, is using IBM technology to advance its research of human genetic disease and to more efficiently maintain its massive collection of biological resources.	19 July 2011
Time-Lapse Video Reveals Never-Before-Seen Bioelectric Pattern For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism and have captured that process in a time-lapse video that reveals never-before-seen patterns of visible bioelectrical signals outlining where eyes, nose, mouth, and other features will appear in an embryonic tadpole.	19 July 2011
Home Medical Devices Should Be Easy-To-Use And Caregivers Well-Trained A new report from the National Research Council recommends steps the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies and professional associations can take to ensure that the medical devices and health information technology used in home health care are easy and safe for laypeople to use and that caregivers, whether formal or informal, are well-trained.	19 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Obesity Is Baby Boomers' Main Health Problem A higher percentage of baby boomers are obese than in any other group in the USA, a poll carried out by LifeGoesStrong has revealed. Findings revealed that while approximately 36% of baby boomers are obese, the figure for the two generations directly above and below them is about 25%.	19 July 2011
University Of Dayton Study Overturns 250-Year-Old Belief About Effects Of Age, Repeated Injury On Tissue Regeneration Scientists have been wrong for 250 years about a fundamental aspect of tissue regeneration, according to a University of Dayton biologist who says his recent discovery is good news for humans.	19 July 2011
Much-Needed Break To Family Caregivers Provided By Adult Day Care Services Adult day care services significantly reduce the stress levels of family caregivers of older adults with dementia, according to a team of Penn State and Virginia Tech researchers."Family members who care for dementia patients are susceptible to experiencing high levels of stress," said Steven Zarit, professor and head, department of human development and family studies, Penn State.	19 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Women More Likely To Send Sexually Explicit Text Messages Than Men Females are more likely to send sexually explicit text messages, often containing nude photographs of themselves than men, researchers from the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and Washburn University reported in the journal Sexuality and Culture.	19 July 2011
Development Of A Vaginal Gel And PrEP Lead To Calls For A Combination Of Biomedical And Non Biomedical Approaches To HIV Prevention Policy Researchers speaking in the first plenary session of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) have offered insights into current and future HIV prevention research and discussed how biomedical developments over the past two years are beginning to shape debate on the future of HIV prevention policy.	19 July 2011

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