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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Returning Veterans' Alcohol Abuse Addressed In Virtual Reality Study The spoils of war for returning veterans may include addictions, injury and the constant images of horrific events they witnessed. Now a University of Houston joint study funded by the Veterans Health Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development service looks to address these issues through the use of virtual reality.	26 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Anavex Presents Data On Neuroprotective Evidence For ANAVEX 2-73,lead Compound For Alzheimer's Disease Anavex Life Sciences Corp. ("Anavex") (OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to provide a summary of its second poster presentation at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) held in Paris, entitled "Preclinical development of new tetrahydrofuran derivatives targeting the sigma-1 chaperone protein as neuroprotectants in Alzheimer's disease.	26 July 2011
Potential Dual Utility Of ANAVEX 2-73 In Both Amyloid And Tau Pathology Anavex Life Sciences Corp., ("Anavex", OTCBB: AVXL) is pleased to provide a summary of the first of two poster presentations at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) held in Paris, entitled "The novel aminotetrahydrofuran derivative ANAVEX 2-73 attenuated GSK-3beta and Tau hyperphosphorylation in a nontransgenic Alzheimer's disease model in mice.	26 July 2011
Study Reveals Brain Differences Between Humans And Chimpanzees Linked To Aging Chimpanzees, the closest living relatives to humans, do not experience a decrease in brain volume as they age like humans do, according to a study by George Washington University researcher Chet Sherwood and his colleagues.	26 July 2011

Autism News

Weak Synchronization In Brain May Be A Marker For Autism The biological causes of autism are still not understood. A diagnosis of autism is only possible after ages three or four and the tests are subjective, based on behavioral symptoms. Now, in research that appeared in Neuron, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California, San Diego have found, for the first time, a method that can accurately identify a biological sign of autism in very young toddlers.

26 July 2011

Dentistry News
Highly Sensitive Method To Assess The Extent Of Titanium Leaks From Implants A new strategy to quantify the levels of titanium in the blood of patients fitted with titanium orthopaedic implants is presented in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, a Springer journal.	26 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Single-Dose H1N1 Vaccine Not Reliable Protection For Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients Researchers from Australia determined that pediatric liver transplant patients who received a single-dose of the H1N1 vaccine were not adequately protected against the virus compared to healthy children.	26 July 2011
Students Study Neuraminidase-sialic Acid Interactions In Combating Flu Influenza viruses spread quickly, are quite common and can have devastating consequences. Thus, drugs that help restrict the spread of influenza not only shorten the sickness, but save lives.	26 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Investing In The Future With Heart Disease Prevention Preventing heart disease before it starts is a good long-term investment in the nation's health, according to a new policy statement from the American Heart Association.The policy statement, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, summarizes years of research on the value of investing in prevention, particularly through community-based changes to make it easier to live a healthy lifestyle: Every dollar spent on building trails for walking or biking saves $3 in medical costs.	26 July 2011
Cardiovascular Injury From Oxidative Stress Special Symposium In AJMS Recent years have seen major advances in understanding of the health effects of oxidative stress including its potential to cause injury to the cardiovascular system. A series of expert updates on the role of oxidative stress in heart failure, atherosclerosis, and other cardiovascular diseases appears in a special symposium in the August issue of The American Journal of the Medical Sciences (AJMS), official journal of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (SSCI).	26 July 2011
Predictors Of Dying Suddenly Versus Surviving Heart Attack Identified Is it possible to predict whether someone is likely to survive or die suddenly from a heart attack?A new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has answered just that."For some people, the first heart attack is more likely to be their last," said Elsayed Z.	26 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Improving Diabetes Care For Older African-Americans Using New Data-Based Strategies And Treatment Models Better data are needed to evaluate access to care by minority groups at increased risk for diabetes, such as older African Americans, and to assess the benefits of new community-based treatment strategies, including greater use of health information technology and access to multilevel diabetes education teams, according to a report in Population Health Management, the Official Journal of The Care Continuum Alliance, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	26 July 2011
New Multiferroic Mechanism Could Lead To Next-Generation Memory And Sensing Devices Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a new way that magnetic and electric properties - which have a long history of ignoring and counteracting each other - can coexist in a special class of metals.	26 July 2011
Habit Formation In Smartphone Users Exposed By Study Popular media has raised the issue of repetitive and obsessive use of smartphones. Data collected in Finland and in USA presents the first scientific evidence for what the authors dubbed "checking habits": repetitive checks of the menu screen, news, email, contacts, and social applications on the device.	26 July 2011
New Study Shows Online Interaction Necessary For Many Users' Health If you are reading this right now, you're online. It is estimated that there were 2.1 billion Internet users worldwide, but what would happen if suddenly we were all unplugged and offline, back to basics if you will? In a new survey of 1,000 people, 53% said they felt upset when they were denied access to the Internet, and 40% said they felt lonely when they were unable to log on to the World Wide Web.	26 July 2011

Mental Health News
New PTSD Guidelines Potentially Making Care Easier For Vets Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a debilitating condition that affects those directly in the line of fire and also those around the inflicted. Obtaining care from government support can be an extremely painstaking process, but a new study shows a relation between PTSD and compromised immune systems in Veterans.	26 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Improving Diabetes Care For Older African-Americans Using New Data-Based Strategies And Treatment Models Better data are needed to evaluate access to care by minority groups at increased risk for diabetes, such as older African Americans, and to assess the benefits of new community-based treatment strategies, including greater use of health information technology and access to multilevel diabetes education teams, according to a report in Population Health Management, the Official Journal of The Care Continuum Alliance, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	26 July 2011
Finding It Harder To See The Wood For The Trees: Changes In Attention And Visual Perception Are Correlated With Aging When looking at a picture of many trees, young people will tend to say: "This is a forest". However, the older we get, the more likely we are to notice a single tree before seeing the forest.	26 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Study Finds Sexual Anxiety, Personality Are Predictors Of Infidelity People with sexual performance anxiety are more likely to cheat on their partners. That's just one of the curious findings of a new study by a University of Guelph professor on the factors that predict infidelity.	26 July 2011

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