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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Moderate Alcohol Consumption And Weight Gain A paper from Spain provides an extensive review of the association between alcohol consumption and body weight. Based on the fact that the energy content in 1 gram of alcohol is 29 kJ or 7.1 kcal, excessive alcohol consumption can lead to weight gain.	18 Aug 2011
Protective Effect Of Moderate Drinking For Alzheimer's And Cognitive Impairment Moderate social drinking significantly reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment, according to an analysis of 143 studies by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers.	18 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Research Scientists Expand Knowledge Of Cell Process Involved In Many Diseases As part of a joint research effort with the University of Michigan, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have for the first time defined the structure of one of the cell's most basic engines, which is required for cell growth, as it assembles from its components.	18 Aug 2011
Microscopy Technique Used To Observe Activity Of Neurons Like Never Before Like far away galaxies, powerful tools are required to bring the minute inner workings of neurons into focus. Borrowing a technique from materials science, a team of neurobiologists, psychiatrists, and advanced imaging specialists from Switzerland's EPLF and CHUV report in The Journal of Neuroscience how Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM) can now be used to observe neuronal activity in real-time and in three dimensions - with up to 50 times greater resolution than ever before.	18 Aug 2011
Protective Effect Of Moderate Drinking For Alzheimer's And Cognitive Impairment Moderate social drinking significantly reduces the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment, according to an analysis of 143 studies by Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers.	18 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Biomedical Research Gets Its Head Into Cloud Computing To Accelerate Arthritis, Rare Cancer Research As cloud computing becomes the next big consumer techo trend, allowing people to access but not have to physically store everything from playlists to photos, it's also on the verge of revolutionizing the way research is done.	18 Aug 2011

Autism News
Scientists Reveal That Seeing Eye To Eye Is Key To Copying, With Implications For Autism Research Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but how do our brains decide when and who we should copy? Researchers from The University of Nottingham have found that the key may lie in an unspoken invitation communicated through eye contact.	18 Aug 2011

Dentistry News
ADA Statement Calls For Repairing The Tattered Dental Safety Net The American Dental Association today released the second in a series of papers that examine the challenges and solutions to bringing good oral health to millions of Americans, including the growing population whose only possible source of dental care is the so-called oral health safety net.	18 Aug 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Toddlers Shielded By Any Prime-Boost Mix Of Injected Or Spray Flu Vaccine Children younger than 3 years old receive the same protective antibody response from the recommended two doses of licensed seasonal influenza vaccines regardless of whether the two doses are injected by needle, inhaled through a nasal spray or provided through one dose of each in any order, according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.

18 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
Mayo Clinic Wins Grant To Gauge Genetic Risk Of Heart Attacks, Adverse Drug Reactions Mayo Clinic researchers will receive more than $3 million in a four-year grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to translate recent genomic discoveries into tools for individualized medicine.	18 Aug 2011
New Technique To Stimulate Heart Muscle By Light May Lead To Light-Controlled Pacemakers By employing optogenetics, a new field that uses genetically altered cells to respond to light, and a tandem unit cell (TCU) strategy, researchers at Stony Brook University have demonstrated a way to control cell excitation and contraction in cardiac muscle cells, the details of which are published in the early online edition of Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology: "Stimulating Cardiac Muscle by Light: Cardiac Optogenetics by Cell Delivery.	18 Aug 2011
Pericardial Fat May Be Early Indicator Of Coronary Disease Researchers have found more evidence supporting the role of fat around the heart in promoting atherosclerosis, according to a study published online in the journal Radiology.New results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) show that pericardial fat is more strongly related to coronary artery plaque than either body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference.	18 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Reliable Wireless Alarm Beacons For First Responders Ensured By NIST Tests Wireless emergency safety equipment could save lives - if signals are transmitted reliably. But few performance standards exist. Now, tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are helping to ensure that alarm beacons for firefighters and other emergency responders will operate reliably in the presence of other wireless devices.	18 Aug 2011
Match-Making Program Uses Gene Expression Patterns To Predict New Uses For Existing Medicines For the first time ever, scientists are using computers and genomic information to predict new uses for existing medicines.A National Institutes of Health-funded computational study analyzed genomic and drug data to predict new uses for medicines that are already on the market.	18 Aug 2011
New MIT Technology Could Lead To Better Drug Delivery And Artificial Tissues That Imitate Natural Tissue Tiny particles made of polymers hold great promise for targeted delivery of drugs and as structural scaffolds for building artificial tissues. However, current production methods for such microparticles yield a limited array of shapes and can only be made with certain materials, restricting their usefulness.	18 Aug 2011
DNA Construction Software Saves Time, Resources And Money DNA construction, also known as DNA cloning or recombinant DNA technology - among a host of other terms - is one of the principal tools of modern biotechnology, used for a wide variety of purposes, including genetic studies, medical research, and the development of advanced biofuels.	18 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Two-Thirds Of California Voters Unprepared For Costs Of Growing Older According To Poll California's weak economy has voters cutting back on current expenses and largely unable to meet essential future ones, such as the cost of long-term care, according to a new poll from The SCAN Foundation and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.	18 Aug 2011
Drug Rejuvenates Switch In Cell's 'Power Plant' Which Declines With Age Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found a protein normally involved in blood pressure regulation in a surprising place: tucked within the little "power plants" of cells, the mitochondria.	18 Aug 2011
Potential To Temporarily Reverse Aging In The Immune System Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered a new mechanism controlling ageing in white blood cells. The research, published in the September issue of the Journal of Immunology, opens up the possibility of temporarily reversing the effects of ageing on immunity and could, in the future, allow for the short-term boosting of the immune systems of older people.	18 Aug 2011
Many Medicare Patients May Discontinue Medications Following Reduced Drug Funding The lack of financial assistance to cover the cost of drugs to Medicare beneficiaries (the US government's health insurance program for people aged 65 or over, which currently covers 50 million US citizens) could result in an additional 18,000 patients discontinuing one or more prescriptions for essential drugs a year - a 100% increase - and others to not take their required medications regularly.	18 Aug 2011

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