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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Methamphetamine And Amphetamine-Like Stimulant Abuse Raises Parkinson's Disease Risk Individuals who abuse methamphetamine and other similar stimulants have a much higher risk of subsequently developing Parkinson's disease, compared to people who don't, researchers from CAMH (Center for Addiction and Mental Health) reported in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.	27 July 2011
Methamphetamine Use Increases Risk Of Parkinson's Disease People who abused methamphetamine or other amphetamine-like stimulants were more likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who did not, in a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).	27 July 2011

Autism News

Revolutionary South Asia Autism Network Launched At International Conference Autism Speaks, the world's largest autism science and advocacy organization, in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, the Centre for Neurodevelopment & Autism in Children, and the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hosted the first regional conference titled "Autism Spectrum Disorders and Developmental Disabilities in Bangladesh and South East Asia.

27 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Risk For Heart Attack More Likely To Be Inherited Than Risk For Stroke While both run in families, people are more likely to inherit a higher risk for heart attack than for stroke, concluded researchers whose findings should not only improve our understanding of how genes affect stroke risk, but also suggest we should probably have separate models for assessing heart attack and stroke risk.	27 July 2011
Hormone Therapy May Be Hazardous For Men With Heart Conditions Adding hormone therapy to radiation therapy has been proven in randomized clinical trials to improve overall survival for men with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. However, adding hormone therapy may reduce overall survival in men with pre-existing heart conditions, even if they have high-risk prostate cancer according to a new study just published online in advance of print in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, the official scientific journal of ASTRO.	27 July 2011
Adrenaline Use In Cardiac Arrest Adrenaline has kept its place in cardiac arrest guidelines despite limited evidence for or against its use. The PACA (Placebo versus Adrenaline versus Cardiac Arrest) study by Jacobs and colleagues, soon to be published in Resuscitation, the official journal of the European Resuscitation Council, provides the best evidence to date supporting the use of adrenaline to treat cardiac arrest.	27 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
CANARY Event Detection Software Protects Water Utilities From Terrorist Attacks And Contaminants, Boosts Quality Americans are used to drinking from the kitchen tap without fear of harm, even though water utilities might be vulnerable to terrorist attacks or natural contaminants.Now, thanks to CANARY Event Detection Software - an open-source software developed by Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - public water systems can be protected through enhanced detection of such threats.	27 July 2011
IT Could 'Revolutionise The World's Healthcare' A massive network of computer programs co-created by University of Manchester scientists could revolutionise healthcare around the world, saving countless lives and billions of pounds.Working with a number of partners, the academics have been awarded funds from a huge European research programme to create "virtual patients" - computational models of individual people - which could lead to everyone having their own individually-tailored health system based on their genetic and physiological make-up.	27 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News

Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries With Limited Prior Drug Coverage Spend Less On Nondrug Medical Services Today After the implementation of Medicare Part D, elderly Medicare beneficiaries spend considerably less money on non-drug medical services, including skilled nursing facility and inpatient care, researchers from Harvard Medical School reported in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association).

27 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Men And Sex; New Tell All Survey Shares Truths Of Male Psyche Tens of thousands of men have answered questions about children, money, sex, marriage and many other issues that a popular men's website is about to publish in a piece called "The Great Men's Survey.	27 July 2011

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