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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Successful Lab Tests On A Potential Vaccine For Heroin Addiction Scientists are reporting development and successful initial laboratory tests on the key ingredient for a much-needed vaccine to help individuals addicted to heroin abstain from the illicit drug.	21 July 2011
New Trends In HIV Cure Research Researchers speaking on the final day of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011) focused on the growing interest in the scientific path to an HIV Cure.	21 July 2011
Weight Has Strongest Effect On Hormones That Raise Breast Cancer Risk Weight has the strongest effect on the sex hormones that increase breast cancer risk in post menopausal women, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer this week.	21 July 2011
Study Dispels Myths About Medication Borrowing In Urban Populations Despite warnings about borrowing medication prescribed to other people, past studies have demonstrated that many Americans say they have used someone else's medication at least once in a given year.	21 July 2011
Scripps Research Scientists Create Vaccine Against Heroin High Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have proven its therapeutic potential in animal models.The new study, published recently online ahead of print by the American Chemical Society's Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, demonstrates how a novel vaccine produces antibodies (a kind of immune molecule) that stop not only heroin but also other psychoactive compounds metabolized from heroin from reaching the brain to produce euphoric effects.	21 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Patients With Alzheimer´s Disease (AD) Benefit From Combination Therapy - Latest Study Results Presented At ICAD At a satellite symposium held during the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 20111 (ICAD) in Paris experts agree: There is increasing evidence that patients with AD benefit from combination therapy with a cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) and memantine (AXURA® - an uncompetitive NMDA receptor antagonist).	21 July 2011
3 Flutemetamol Abstracts Featured At The 2011 Alzheimer's Association International Conference On Alzheimer's Disease Recent clinical research data reported that the investigational amyloid imaging agent [18F]Flutemetamol showed highly consistent image interpretation1 and showed comparable in vitro binding to the Pittsburgh Compound-B ([C-11]PiB)) investigational imaging agent3.	21 July 2011
Inherited Alzheimer's Detected 20 Years Before Dementia Inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease may be detectable as many as 20 years before problems with memory and thinking develop, scientists will report July 20, 2011, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Paris.	21 July 2011
Drug Improves Brain Function In Condition That Leads To Alzheimer's An existing anti-seizure drug improves memory and brain function in adults with a form of cognitive impairment that often leads to full-blown Alzheimer's disease, a Johns Hopkins University study has found.	21 July 2011
Inherited Alzheimer's Detectable 20 Years Before Dementia Inherited forms of Alzheimer's disease may be detectable as many as 20 years before problems with memory and thinking develop, scientists reported July 20, 2011, at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Paris.	21 July 2011

Heart Disease News
FDA Approves New Medicine BRILINTA™ (Ticagrelor) For Use In The US AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BRILINTA™ (ticagrelor) tablets to reduce the rate of heart attack (myocardial infarction [MI]) and cardiovascular (CV) death in adult patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), compared to clopidogrel.	21 July 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
Heat And Pollution Advisory Prescriptions From Loyola Medical Experts Many across the nation are experiencing the "dog days of summer" and medical experts at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, part of Loyola University Health System, warn residents to take extra precautions to safeguard their health.	21 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
About 75 Percent Of Senior Households Have Little Or No Buffer Against Trauma Outliving one's resources and falling into poverty is an increasingly common experience among today's senior citizens, according to a new report produced jointly by the Heller School's Institute on Assets and Social Policy and the public policy research and advocacy organization Demos.	21 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Researchers Discover Gene Required To Maintain Male Sex Throughout Life University of Minnesota Medical School and College of Biological Sciences researchers have made a key discovery showing that male sex must be maintained throughout life.The research team, led by Drs.	21 July 2011
Few Women In War-Torn Lands Have Access To Contraceptives Violent conflict disrupts all aspects of society, including the delivery of the most basic reproductive health services: prenatal and maternal care, family planning, prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, abortions and emergency caesarian care.	21 July 2011
Chlamydia Findings Could Yield New Therapeutic Approaches That Might Turn A Natural Infection Into A Vaccination Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discovered a way to block the damaging actions of Chlamydia, the bacteria responsible for the largest number of sexually transmitted infections in the United States.	21 July 2011

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