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Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Breathing Problems During Sleep Linked To Dementia Or Cognitive Impairment A study published in the August 10 issue of JAMA revealed, that older women with sleep-disordered breathing, as indicated by measures of hypoxia (oxygen deficiency), were more likely to develop cognitive impairment or dementia than women without this disorder.	10 Aug 2011
Drug To Prevent Alzheimer's "Within Six Years" A new drug to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease could be tested on patients within six years according to researchers at Lancaster University.Alzheimer's is the most common type of dementia, which affects 750,000 people in the UK, with numbers expected to more than double by 2050.	10 Aug 2011
Improving Early Diagnosis Of Alzheimer's Disease Researchers at The University of Nottingham have been awarded £670,000 to develop a new early warning system for Alzheimer's disease.Funding from the Medical Research Council (MRC) will be used to develop a new diagnostic test that will pick up the presence of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias much sooner than is currently possible - so patients can receive more effective treatment.	10 Aug 2011
Sleep Apnea And Oxygen Intake Associated With Increased Dementia Risk A recent study has uncovered an association between women who suffer from sleep apnea and the likelihood of developing dementia. Oxygen intake levels could be the culprit as a lack of the element may stunt long term memory.	10 Aug 2011
Common Irregular Heartbeat Raises Risk Of Dementia The most common kind of chronically irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, is associated with a greater risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease. This discovery by scientists at Group Health Research Institute and their collaborators was published online in advance of print on August 1 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.	10 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Curry Spice Could Offer Treatment Hope For Tendinitis A derivative of a common culinary spice found in Indian curries could offer a new treatment hope for sufferers of the painful condition tendinitis, an international team of researchers has shown.	10 Aug 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
A Cure For The Common Cold? New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.	10 Aug 2011
Fine-Tuning The Flu Vaccine For Broader Protection An antibody that mimics features of the influenza virus's entry point into human cells could help researchers understand how to fine-tune the flu vaccine to protect against a broad range of virus strains.	10 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
Breast Cancer Drug Herceptin Raises Heart Risk, Especially For Those With Diabetes Or Heart Disease History In a first study, researchers assessed the effect of the breast cancer drug trastuzumab (Herceptin) on heart and vascular function in elderly patients and discovered an increased risk of heart problems, particularly affecting women with a history of heart disease, diabetes or both.	10 Aug 2011
Atrial Fibrillation Patients Better Off With Rivaroxaban Than Warfarin - Less Monitoring Required Individuals with atrial fibrillation may be better off with rivaroxaban, because it is easier to administer than warfarin, which is in current standard treatment, researchers from the University of Edinburg and the University of North Carolina revealed in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine).	10 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Most Canadians Can Be Uniquely Identified From Their Date Of Birth And Postal Code There are increasing pressures for health care providers to make individual-level data readily available for research and policy making. But Canadians are more likely to allow the sharing of their personal data if they believe that their privacy is protected.	10 Aug 2011
TAU Researcher Develops "Crime Tracking" Algorithm To Process Moving Information Almost everything we do leaves a digital trace, whether we send an email to a friend or make a purchase online. That includes law-abiding citizens and criminals. And with digital information multiplying by the second, there are seemingly endless amounts of information for criminal investigators to gather and process.	10 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Breathing Problems During Sleep Linked To Dementia Or Cognitive Impairment A study published in the August 10 issue of JAMA revealed, that older women with sleep-disordered breathing, as indicated by measures of hypoxia (oxygen deficiency), were more likely to develop cognitive impairment or dementia than women without this disorder.	10 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Premature Ejaculation Behavioral Therapy - Not Enough Evidence To Determine Effectiveness Teaching males to control their minds and bodies so that they can overcome a premature ejaculation problem during sex does not appear to be backed by reliable evidence, researchers revealed in a Review published in The Cochrane Collaboration.	10 Aug 2011
"Partner Betweenness" May Contribute To ED In Couples' Relationships It seems that if your girlfriend or wife is better friends with your friends than you are, you may have more problems on your hands than just a rocky relationship. There is now evidence that there is an association between erectile dysfunction (ED) in heterosexual men and strong relationships that may exist between their partners and their male friends.	10 Aug 2011
When A Man's Female Partner Becomes Too Buddy-Buddy With His Pals, His Sex Life May Suffer Researchers have found a potential new source for sexual problems among middle-aged and older men: The relationships between their female partners and the men's closest friends.Cornell University and University of Chicago researchers have found a connection between erectile dysfunction and the social networks shared by heterosexual men and their partners.	10 Aug 2011

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