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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News

Meth Use Fuels Higher Rates Of Unsafe Sex, HIV Risk In Young Men Who Have Sex With Men A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere shows that methamphetamine use can fuel HIV infection risk among teenage boys and young men who have sex with men (MSM), a group that includes openly gay and bisexual men, as well as those who have sex with men but do not identify themselves as gay or bisexual.

02 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Shrinkage! Bad Heart Habits Lessen Brain Volume Over Time Want a full sized brain for life? Avoid smoking, excessive drinking, keep your weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure all under control and you should be able to avoid brain volume mass shrinkage over time a new study suggests.	02 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
Man Receives Total Artificial Heart Implant And Goes Home Matthew Green, 40, received a Total Artificial Heart Implant at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, England and went home. He had been suffering from end-stage biventricular heart failure, where both sides of the heart are failing.	02 Aug 2011
Even A Little Exercise Is Good For Reducing Heart Disease Risk If you want to reduce your coronary heart disease risk, remember that even a little bit of exercise helps, it is better than none at all, and the more you do the better the benefit, researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health reported in Circulation.	02 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Predicting The Evolution Of A Patient's Tumor To Advance Highly Individualized Cancer Treatment Researchers from the University of Miami (UM) and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have developed a mathematical model to understand and predict the progress of a tumor, from its early stages to metastasis, in hopes of creating highly personalized treatment strategies for patients who have cancer.	02 Aug 2011
UMD Sensors Offer Instant, Affordable Warnings To Avert Bridge Disasters, Potentially Save Hundreds Of Lives Millions of U.S. drivers cross faulty or obsolete bridges every day, highway statistics show, but it's too costly to fix all these spans or adequately monitor their safety, says a University of Maryland researcher who's developed a new, affordable early warning system.	02 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
War Displaced Sri Lankans At High Risk Of PTSD, Anxiety And Depression, Study Shows A study shown in the August 3 theme issue on violence and human rights of JAMA reported that residents of Sri Lanka who were seeking refuge in neighboring countries or secure areas of their own country during the Sri Lankan civil war (1983 to 2009) have a higher occurrence of war-related mental health conditions including depression, anxiety and PTSD.	02 Aug 2011
Antipsychotic Medication For Military PTSD Not Effective, Study Shows According to a study of JAMA, (August 3 theme issue on violence and human rights) patients who suffered from military-related, chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who did not respond properly to antidepressant medication, did not experience a decrease in PTSD symptoms by using antipsychotic medication risperidone.	02 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Costs Cause Many Elderly Not To Adhere To Prescribed Medication Regimen Approximately 10% of Medicare beneficiaries do not comply with their prescribed medication regimen because they simply cannot afford it, researchers from Harvard Medical School reported in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship.	02 Aug 2011
Japan Develops Robot For Slip And Fall Instance Among Elderly Taking care of the elderly can be difficult for many healthcare workers, especially when there is a slip and fall situation in which the patient cannot recover on their own power. However in Japan, researchers have introduced a robot on Tuesday that can lift a patient weighing 176 lbs off the floor and onto a wheelchair, relieving caretakers of strain and possibly further injury.	02 Aug 2011
Elderly In The US Find Medication Costs A Barrier To Effective Treatment As many as one in ten elderly people in the US, registered with Medicare, do not stick to their prescribed medication because it is too expensive, according to Dr. Larissa Nekhlyudov and colleagues from Harvard Medical School.	02 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News

New Disposable Credit Card-Sized Device Diagnoses Infectious Diseases At Patients' Bedsides, Could Streamline Blood Testing Samuel K. Sia, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, has developed an innovative strategy for an integrated microfluidic-based diagnostic device - in effect, a lab-on-a-chip - that can perform complex laboratory assays, and do so with such simplicity that these tests can be carried out in the most remote regions of the world.

02 Aug 2011

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