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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Cell Phone Pictures May Aid Treatment For Methamphetamine Addiction Sending cell phone pictures of medications before taking them may provide a simple but effective way to monitor compliance with prescribed treatment for methamphetamine addiction, reports a study in the September Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine.	17 Aug 2011
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology Breast Cancer Tumor Suppressor Gene Silenced by Low O2 Low oxygen can silence the BRCA1 tumor suppressor gene and contribute to the progression of cancer, according to a paper in the August 2011 issue of the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology.	17 Aug 2011
Link Between Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor And Alcohol Dependence One of the ways an alcohol dependence (AD) diagnosis can be made is through measurement of biological markers of hepatic injury such as gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT) and mean corpuscular volume (MCV).	17 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
New Treatment Approach For Alzheimer's Disease Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Universitätsklinik Freiburg succeeded in documenting how the immune system can counteract the advancement of Alzheimer's disease. Within the scope of their neuroscience paper they showed that certain scavenger cells in the immune system, so-called macrophages, play a key role in this context.	17 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Rheumatoid Arthritis Can Be Caused By A20 Gene Expression Defect Investigators from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have revealed that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammation of the joints which is often-crippling and affects around 1% of the world's population.	17 Aug 2011
Defect In A20 Gene Expression Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis Researchers from VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and Ghent University have shown that a defective gene can contribute to the onset of rheumatoid arthritis, an often-crippling inflammation of the joints that afflicts about 1% of the world's population.	17 Aug 2011

Autism News
Inflexibilty May Give Pupils With Autism Problems In Multitasking Young people with autism may find it difficult to multitask because they stick rigidly to tasks in the order they are given to them, according to research led by an academic at the University of Strathclyde.	17 Aug 2011

Dentistry News
Can Oral Care For Babies Prevent Future Cavities? New parents have one more reason to pay attention to the oral health of their toothless babies. A recent University of Illinois study confirms the presence of bacteria associated with early childhood caries (ECC) in infant saliva.	17 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
New Research Links Obesity With Heart Rhythm Disorder University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that obesity directly causes electrical abnormalities of the heart.Cardiologist and PhD candidate Dr Hany Abed says there is growing evidence that obesity changes the structure and size of the heart muscle and the way it works and contracts, as well as its electrical function.	17 Aug 2011
New Screening Effort For Sudden Cardiac Arrest Among Athletes Protects The Student Body As the fall sports season starts for students, millions will hit the court, the rink and the field. Every year, it seems we hear a tragic story of a young person suffering a cardiac event while participating in school sports.	17 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News

Shedding Light On Antibiotic Resistance Via Realistic Simulation Of Ion Flux Through Membrane As the gatekeepers of ion flow through cell membranes, ion channels are of key interest in numerous cellular processes. Now, a new study describes an innovative new computational model that realistically simulates the complex conditions found in biological systems and allows for a more accurate look at ion channel function at the level of individual atoms.

17 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News

New Research Offers Pointers For Keeping To Your Exercise Resolutions Sticking with an exercise routine means being able to overcome the obstacles that invariably arise. A key to success is having the confidence that you can do it, researchers report. A new study explores how some cognitive strategies and abilities increase this "situation-specific self-confidence," a quality the researchers call "self-efficacy.

17 Aug 2011

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