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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
England's Schoolkids Less Tolerant Of Alcohol Use Among Peers Schoolchildren in England are becoming less tolerant of alcohol use among their peers, according to an NHS survey published today, Thursday 28 July, that also reveals fewer schoolkids are using alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.	28 July 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Protecting Vulnerable Adults, New Guidance For Doctors, UK The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued new guidance for general practitioners called "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Toolkit For General Practitioners". The BMA stresses that the guidelines apply to any professional who works in health care settings with vulnerable adults, even though it is primarily aimed at GPs.	28 July 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Got The Gout? Self Reported Cases Show Increase In Prevalence Eight million Americans, almost 6% of men and 2% of women have got the gout, a painful affliction in which uric acid crystals are deposited in the joints. In a self reported survey, the prevalence of gout continues to climb along with rates of related conditions such as hypertension and metabolic syndrome, reaching 3.	28 July 2011

Autism News

With New Technology, In Mouse Model, Social Deficits Associated With Autism, Schizophrenia Induced Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine have been able to switch on, and then switch off, social-behavior deficits in mice that resemble those seen in people with autism and schizophrenia, thanks to a technology that allows scientists to precisely manipulate nerve activity in the brain.

28 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Targeting Key Proteins May Lead To Univeral Vaccine In Five Years About 200,000 people are hospitalized with the flu every year, and an estimated 3,000 to 49,000 die, making the flu one of the chief causes of preventable death in the USA. However, a universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years that will make yearly shots a thing of the past according to experts.

28 July 2011

Headache / Migraine News
Tylenol Maximum Daily Dosage To Drop To 3,000mg Per Day From 4,000mg Tylenol, whose active ingredient is acetaminophen, will now have a lower recommended daily dose, which is aimed at reducing the risk of accidental overdose, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a Johnson & Johnson company announced today.	28 July 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Access Equals Demand; Health Costs Will Be Up 6% A Year Next Decade Healthcare for all may be a good thing, but spending on staying sound will grow almost 6% each year through 2020 according to experts. Researchers estimate that doctor visits, clinical services and prescription drugs will be some of the largest growth areas, because of the comparably young age of the newly insured population.	28 July 2011

Heart Disease News
The More You Spend On Emergency Room Patients, The More Lives You Save A new MIT study has demonstrated that when more money is spent treating emergency room patients, more lives are saved. The study has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.	28 July 2011
A New Technique For Restoring Heart Rhythm A high-amplitude, and often painful, electrical shock is the only currently available method for treating certain cases of chronic cardiac arrhythmia. But now a new technique using much weaker impulses has been developed by an international team of physicists and cardiologists (1), including Alain Pumir, CNRS researcher at the ENS Lyon physics laboratory (CNRS/ENS Lyon/Université Lyon 1).	28 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Child Mobile Phone Users And Non Users Run Same Brain Cancer Risk A person aged from 7 to 19 who regularly uses a mobile phone does not have a statistically significantly higher risk of developing brain tumors compared to children of the same age who have no cell phones, researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basle, Switzerland reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.	28 July 2011
Use Of Mobile Phones By Children And Adolescents Does Not Increase Risk Of Brain Cancer Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are not at a statistically significant increased risk of brain cancer compared to their peers who do not use mobile phones, according to a study published July 27 in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute.	28 July 2011
Mind-Machine Interface Could Lead To New Life-Changing Technologies For Millions Of People "Brain cap" technology being developed at the University of Maryland allows users to turn their thoughts into motion. Associate Professor of Kinesiology Jose 'Pepe' L. Contreras-Vidal and his team have created a non-invasive, sensor-lined cap with neural interface software that soon could be used to control computers, robotic prosthetic limbs, motorized wheelchairs and even digital avatars.	28 July 2011
Popular Mammography Tool Not Effective For Finding Invasive Breast Cancer Computer-aided detection (CAD) technology is ineffective in finding breast tumors, and appears to increase a woman's risk of being called back needlessly for additional testing following mammography, a large UC Davis study has found.	28 July 2011
Got Flow Cytometry? All You Need Is 5 Bucks And A Cell Phone Flow cytometry, a technique for counting and examining cells, bacteria and other microscopic particles, is used routinely in diagnosing disorders, infections and cancers and evaluating the progression of HIV and AIDS.	28 July 2011
Ophthalmologist Helps Develop Device For Monitoring Degenerative Eye Disease An ophthalmologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center has helped create a convenient device that lets patients who have a degenerative eye disease better track vision changes.With the hand-held digital device, called myVisionTrack, patients can now perform an accurate self-test in less than 90 seconds, said Dr.	28 July 2011
Biological Interface Taking advantage of the unique properties of zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have demonstrated a new type of piezoelectric resistive switching device in which the write-read access of memory cells is controlled by electromechanical modulation.	28 July 2011

Mental Health News
Want A Nose Job? Check Your Head For Possible Mental Illness First The desire for plastic surgery, and in particular nose jobs, may be a tell tale sign of a mental illness called dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which is basically is an unnatural preoccupation with slight or imagined defects in appearance.	28 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Protecting Vulnerable Adults, New Guidance For Doctors, UK The British Medical Association (BMA) has issued new guidance for general practitioners called "Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults - A Toolkit For General Practitioners". The BMA stresses that the guidelines apply to any professional who works in health care settings with vulnerable adults, even though it is primarily aimed at GPs.	28 July 2011
How Memory Is Lost -- And Found Yale University researchers can't tell you where you left your car keys - but they can tell you why you can't find them.A new study published in the journal Nature shows the neural networks in the brains of the middle-aged and elderly have weaker connections and fire less robustly than in youthful ones, Intriguingly, the research suggests that this condition is reversible.	28 July 2011

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