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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Drinking Guidelines Regarding The Risk Of Cancer May Be Inadequate A group of French scientists (from the Unit of Research on Nutritional Epidemiology, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bobigny, France; the French Institute for Prevention and Health Education, St.	20 July 2011
Virtual Media Centre To Be Launched By The International AIDS Society To Support Opioid Substitution Therapy In Eastern Europe And Central Asia As a part of its new initiative, Expanding Access to Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) for People Who Inject Drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), the International AIDS Society (IAS) will launch a Virtual Knowledge Centre (VKC) in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy (UIPHP).	20 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
New Study Shows Evidence Of Lower Rate Of Hippocampal Shrinkage In Alzheimer's Disease Patients Treated With Aricept(R) Eisai Europe Ltd and Pfizer Limited today announced the results from a new study conducted in France demonstrating Aricept® (donepezil hydrochloride) 10mg significantly reduced the rate of hippocampal atrophy (reduction in volume) in patients with an amnestic syndrome at an early phase of Alzheimer's disease.	20 July 2011
International Survey Highlights Great Public Desire To Seek Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Results of an international survey[i] reveal that over 85% of respondents in the five countries surveyed say that if they were exhibiting confusion and memory loss, they would want to see a doctor to determine if the cause of the symptoms was Alzheimer's disease.	20 July 2011
Alzheimer's Association Presents Lifetime Achievement Awards To Four Researchers The Alzheimer's Association recognized four leading scientists for their extraordinary contributions to Alzheimer's disease research at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC 2011) in Paris, France.	20 July 2011
New Global Model Of Alzheimer's Risk Suggests A 25 Percent Reduction In Presumed Risk Factors Could Lower Alzheimer's Cases By 3 Million Worldwide A new mathematical model of global Alzheimer's risk suggests that reducing the prevalence of well-known, lifestyle-based, chronic disease risk factors by 25 percent could potentially prevent 3 million cases of Alzheimer's worldwide, according to new research presented today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2011 (AAIC 2011) in Paris.	20 July 2011
Lilly Presents Follow-Up Data On Semagacestat To Assist Future Alzheimer's Disease Research Data were presented from the first of two Phase III trials of semagacestat, including data from a 32 week follow-up period after dosing was halted in August 2010. Semagacestat is a gamma secretase inhibitor that had been studied as a potential treatment for Alzheimer's disease.	20 July 2011
Falls May Be Early Sign Of Alzheimer's Falls and balance problems may be early indicators of Alzheimer's disease, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reported July 17, 2011, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Paris.	20 July 2011
Precise Measurements Of Cholesterol Transport Rates Give New Hope For Alzheimer's Treatment Neutrons have shown the movement of cholesterol between and within cells takes far longer than previously thought. Findings could impact the treatment of a range of diseases linked to abnormal rates of cholesterol transfer.	20 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
New Study Links High Rates Of Osteoarthritis In Athletes To Femur Damage During Adolescence, As A Result Of Participation In High-Intensity Sports Vigorous sports activities, like basketball, during childhood and adolescence can cause abnormal development of the femur in young athletes, resulting in a deformed hip with reduced rotation and pain during movement.	20 July 2011

Autism News

New Clinical Trial To Examine Medication To Treat Social Withdrawal In Fragile X And Autism Patients Children and adults with social withdrawal due to Fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited intellectual disability and the most common known single gene cause of autism, may benefit from an experimental drug under study by pediatric neurologists at Rush Children's Hospital at Rush University Medical Center.

20 July 2011

Dentistry News

The Use Of Twitter For Public Health Surveillance Of Dental Pain The microblogging service Twitter is a new means for the public to communicate health concerns and could afford health care professionals new ways to communicate with patients. With the growing ubiquity of user-generated online content via social networking Web sites such as Twitter, it is clear we are experiencing a revolution in communication and information sharing.

20 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Vascular Disease Management Increasingly Important As the population ages and obesity and diabetes increase, more people suffer from noncardiac vascular diseases. In the July/August issue of Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, published by Elsevier, a series of articles from recognized experts on key topics in vascular disease and endovascular medicine provide an insightful compendium of the evidence available to help improve the care of this complex patient population.	20 July 2011
New Information On Varenicline (Champix) Inconclusive: NPS, Australia Uncertainty remains despite new research published this month linking a smoking-cessation medicine to an increased risk of heart attacks, according to NPS. The research, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, suggests that the smoking cessation medicine varenicline (Champix) is linked to a small increase in the risk of serious cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks.	20 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
E-health Records Should Play Bigger Role In Patient Safety Initiatives, Researchers Advocate Patient safety researchers are calling for the expanded use of electronic health records (EHRs) to address the disquieting number of medical errors in the healthcare system that can lead to readmissions and even death.	20 July 2011
Mobile Medical Apps Supervision By FDA, Agency Seeking Input As more and more mobile medical apps (applications) enter the market, the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has said today it seeks feedback on its proposed oversight approach. These apps are designed for smartphone and other mobile computing device usage.	20 July 2011
Virtual Media Centre To Be Launched By The International AIDS Society To Support Opioid Substitution Therapy In Eastern Europe And Central Asia As a part of its new initiative, Expanding Access to Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) for People Who Inject Drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA), the International AIDS Society (IAS) will launch a Virtual Knowledge Centre (VKC) in partnership with the Ukrainian Institute on Public Health Policy (UIPHP).	20 July 2011
The Use Of Twitter For Public Health Surveillance Of Dental Pain The microblogging service Twitter is a new means for the public to communicate health concerns and could afford health care professionals new ways to communicate with patients. With the growing ubiquity of user-generated online content via social networking Web sites such as Twitter, it is clear we are experiencing a revolution in communication and information sharing.	20 July 2011

Mental Health News
AMA Survey - Family Doctors Say Budget Cuts Seriously Disadvantage Mental Health Patients, Australia An AMA survey shows that 85 per cent of GPs believe fewer patients will receive vital mental health care as a result of Medicare patient rebate cuts in the 2011-12 Federal Budget. The changes would see more than $400 million slashed from the Better Access Program, with rebates for GP mental health services being cut by up to 50 per cent.	20 July 2011
Suicide Rates Among Mental Health Patients Revealed Suicide rates among people with mental illness in England and Wales have fallen over the last decade, latest figures show.The 2011 Annual Report published Tuesday, 19 July by The University of Manchester's National Confidential Inquiry (NCI) into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness reveals: Patient suicides have fallen from a peak of 1,315 in 2004 to 1,196 in 2008.	20 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Association Between Small Hippocampus And Depression In The Elderly: Risk Factor Or Shrinkage? Imaging studies have repeatedly found that people with depression have smaller hippocampal volumes than healthy individuals. The hippocampus is a brain region involved in learning and memory, spatial navigation, and the evaluation of complex life situations or "contexts".	20 July 2011
New Evidence Of Age-Related Decline In The Brain's Master Circadian Clock A new study of the brain's master circadian clock - known as the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN - reveals that a key pattern of rhythmic neural activity begins to decline by middle age. The study, whose senior author is UCLA Chancellor Gene Block, may have implications for the large number of older people who have difficulty sleeping and adjusting to time changes.	20 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Changes In Bone Density In Oral Contraceptive Users Depends On Age And Hormone Dose Birth control pills may reduce a woman's bone density, according to a study published online July 13 in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism by Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) scientists.	20 July 2011
NIH Grant To Develop And Test New Drugs To Block HIV Infection Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill schools of medicine and pharmacy have been awarded a $3 million federal grant to develop and test a new generation of treatments aimed at preventing sexual transmission of HIV to uninfected individuals.	20 July 2011

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