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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Evolution Of Human Longevity Led To Both A Large Brain And Brain Shrinkage Brains shrink in humans, potentially causing a number of health problems and mental illnesses as people age, but do they shrink to the same extent in the closest living relatives to humans - the chimpanzees?New research says no, making the extreme amount of brain shrinkage resulting from normal aging in humans unique.	29 July 2011

Autism News
Psychologist Links Social Acumen To Spatial Skill People who are socially skilled - who are adept at metaphorically putting themselves in someone else's shoes - are also more proficient when it comes to spatial skills, according to a new study led by a Johns Hopkins University psychologist.	29 July 2011

Dentistry News

Enhanced Dental Care Under Grant To Cedars-Sinai's COACH For Kids Dental problems are the most commonly cited unmet need among children.Cedars-Sinai's COACH for Kids and Their Families®, a mobile medical program, has been selected as one of 20 school-based programs nationwide to receive a grant from the National Assembly on School-based Health Care (NASBHC) to increase oral health services to students in underserved communities.

29 July 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Potential For A First Universal Flu Therapeutic Following Discovery Of First Antibody To Neutralize Both Group 1 And Group 2 Influenza A Viruses A paper published in the scientific research journal Science, describes a novel, proprietary monoclonal antibody (FI6) discovered in a collaboration between Humabs BioMed SA, the Institute for Research in Biomedicine ("IRB") and the UK Medical Research Council (MRC).

29 July 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Study Finds Big Gap In Health Care Spending Between Latinos And Whites New research out of UCLA has found that Latinos living in the United States - particularly those who were born outside the country - are far less likely to spend for health care and are more likely to pay out-of-pocket when they do spend than the white population.	29 July 2011

Heart Disease News
Reducing The Risk Of Heart Failure And Cardiac Fibrosis With A Heart-Rate-reducing Medication The findings of a Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) study published in the scientific journal Cardiology suggest that ivabradine, a heart rate reduction medication, is also effective in reducing the risk of diastolic heart failure (left ventricular insufficiency) and cardiac fibrosis.	29 July 2011
Risk Factors For Heart Disease Increased By Fructose Consumption A recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM) found that adults who consumed high fructose corn syrup for two weeks as 25 percent of their daily calorie requirement had increased blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, which have been shown to be indicators of increased risk for heart disease.	29 July 2011
Mount Sinai Performs First Atrial Fibrillation Cardiac Ablation On The East Coast With Novel Force-Sensing Catheter And Mapping System The Mount Sinai Medical Center has become the first hospital on the east coast to perform a cardiac ablation procedure using the Thermocool Smarttouch Contact Force-Sensing Catheter for the treatment of symptomatic, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), or periodic rapid and irregular heartbeats.	29 July 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Using Brain Power To Apply Brakes Whilst Driving German researchers have used drivers' brain signals, for the first time, to assist in braking, providing much quicker reaction times and a potential solution to the thousands of car accidents that are caused by human error.	29 July 2011
Mobile Apps, Facebook, Twitter Help Public Become Part Of Disaster Preparedness And Response, Not 'Mere Bystanders' Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective" article from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to be published this week.	29 July 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Growing Life Expectancy Gap Between Americans And Europeans Forty years ago, Americans could expect to live slightly longer than Europeans. This has since reversed: in spite of similar levels of economic development, Americans now live about a year-and-a-half less, on average, than their Western European counterparts, and also less than people in most other developed nations.	29 July 2011
Evolution Of Human Longevity Led To Both A Large Brain And Brain Shrinkage Brains shrink in humans, potentially causing a number of health problems and mental illnesses as people age, but do they shrink to the same extent in the closest living relatives to humans - the chimpanzees?New research says no, making the extreme amount of brain shrinkage resulting from normal aging in humans unique.	29 July 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Male Circumcision Lowers Prevalence Of Penile Precancerous Lesions Among African Men A University of North Carolina-led international study shows that among Kenyan men, circumcision is associated with a lower prevalence of human papillomavirus-associated precancerous lesions of the penis.	29 July 2011

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