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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Amy Winehouse's Death And No To Rehab; What Is Substance Abuse? Songstress Amy Winehouse died this weekend and joins a long line of musical artists that have abused substances for reasons unknown. Although here official autopsy is not complete, the world is wondering what happened and if her history of drug abuse was to blame.	25 July 2011
Misuse Of Pain Medication Is Pathway To High-Risk Behaviors A new study by researchers at Drexel University's School of Public Health suggests that abuse of prescription painkillers may be an important gateway to the use of injected drugs such as heroin, among people with a history of using both types of drugs.	25 July 2011
Test Developed For Classifying Force Used In Bottle Stabbings Engineers at the University of Leicester have for the first time created a way of measuring how much force is used during a stabbing using a broken bottle. The advance is expected to have significant implications for legal forensics.	25 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News

Blue Collar Workers Work Longer And In Worse Health Than Their White Collar Bosses While more Americans are working past age 65 by choice, a growing segment of the population must continue to work well into their sixties out of financial necessity. Research conducted by the Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine looked at aging, social class and labor force participation rates to illustrate the challenges that lower income workers face in the global marketplace.

25 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Synthetic Biologists Use Software To Customize Protein Production A software program developed by a Penn State synthetic biologist could provide biotechnology companies with genetic plans to help them turn bacteria into molecular factories, capable of producing everything from biofuels to medicine.	25 July 2011

Mental Health News
Homelessness More Common Among Gay, Bisexual Teens, US Study Homelessness is much more common among gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers than among their heterosexual counterparts, according to a study of over 6,300 Massachusetts high school students that also found homeless gay, lesbian and bisexual teens are consistently more likely to be living on their own without a parent or guardian.	25 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Transition Of Care Programs After Hospital Discharge Reduce Readmission Rates Two articles published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that transition care programs aimed at hospitalized seniors resulted in a significantly lower rate of hospital readmissions. The program helps elderly patients cope with leaving hospital.	25 July 2011
Blue Collar Workers Work Longer And In Worse Health Than Their White Collar Bosses While more Americans are working past age 65 by choice, a growing segment of the population must continue to work well into their sixties out of financial necessity. Research conducted by the Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine looked at aging, social class and labor force participation rates to illustrate the challenges that lower income workers face in the global marketplace.	25 July 2011
Reducing Turnover By Subsidizing Wages At Long-Term Care Facilities Subsidizing the wages of caregivers at group homes would likely reduce worker turnover rates and help contain costs at long-term care facilities, according to new University of Illinois research.	25 July 2011

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