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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Average Brit Spends £58,201 ($93,000) On Booze Over A Lifetime And Has 726 Hangovers Over an average British person's lifetime, 5,800 pints of beer are consumed, plus 8,700 glasses of wine, 2,900 bottles of cider, 5,808 shots of spirits, 1,452 cocktails, 1,452 glasses of liquor, and 1,452 glasses of champagne - the equivalent of 456 drinks annually.	19 Aug 2011
Drink Wine To Beat Dementia Risk, But Find The Balance Study Reports For over thirty years research has been done and much debate has carried on about the benefits or risks associated with drinking alcohol and wine in particular. After an analysis of research since 1977, it has been determined that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, especially wine, may lower the risk of dementia which often leads to severe Alzheimer's Disease.	19 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Treatment With Vitamin C Dissolves Toxic Protein Aggregates In Alzheimer's Disease Researchers at Lund University have discovered a new function for vitamin C. Treatment with vitamin C can dissolve the toxic protein aggregates that build up in the brain in Alzheimer's disease.	19 Aug 2011
Drink Wine To Beat Dementia Risk, But Find The Balance Study Reports For over thirty years research has been done and much debate has carried on about the benefits or risks associated with drinking alcohol and wine in particular. After an analysis of research since 1977, it has been determined that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol, especially wine, may lower the risk of dementia which often leads to severe Alzheimer's Disease.	19 Aug 2011
Study Identifies Fish Oil's Impact On Cognition And Brain Structure Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital's Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Center have found positive associations between fish oil supplements and cognitive functioning as well as differences in brain structure between users and non-users of fish oil supplements.	19 Aug 2011

Headache / Migraine News
CoLucid Pharmaceuticals Receives Clearance For Investigational New Drug (IND) Application For Lasmiditan For The Treatment Of Acute Migraine CoLucid Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company, announced that it has received clearance to proceed with clinical studies of lasmiditan (formerly known as COL-144) under IND 103,420 from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).	19 Aug 2011
Headaches Are Common In Year Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Especially Among Females Recurring headaches are common during the year following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), regardless of the severity of the TBI, and they tend to occur more often among females and those with a pre-TBI history of headache, according to an article in Journal of Neurotrauma, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.	19 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
Omecamtiv Mecarbil Is Potential New Treatment For Systolic Heart Failure - Clinical Study A unique drug that activates a protein to increase the contraction of heart muscle could lead to a new approach for the treatment of systolic heart failure (SHF), a condition characterized by the inability of the heart to contract strongly enough.	19 Aug 2011
Coronary Calcium Beats C-Reactive Protein For Predicting The Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke And The Need For Statin Therapy The presence of calcium in coronary arteries is a much better predictor of heart attack and stroke than C-reactive protein among people with normal levels of LDL cholesterol, according to a study of more than 2,000 people led by a Johns Hopkins heart specialist.	19 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News

First Responders Able To Visualize Post-Event Disaster Environments Using New Software Tool Using iPad™ mobile devices, emergency preparedness officials and first responders participating last month in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE-11) were able, for the first time, to make use of a new, science-based software tool that allows them to view and modify accurate models of building damage and other post-event disaster effects.

19 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Pressure-Redistribution Mattresses Improve Care, Cut Hospital Costs Hospitals could reduce health care costs arising from pressure ulcers, commonly known as bedsores, by investing in pressure-reduction mattresses for elderly patients in emergency departments, according to new research from the University of Toronto.	19 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Weight Loss Boosts Libido Of Obese Men With Diabetes A recent investigation has confirmed sexual desire and performance can be significantly improved in obese diabetic men if they lose weight on a high protein or low calorie diet. Just published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Will Williams, scientific advisor to the All About Weight organization, explained that the clinical investigation found that sexual function improved drastically and faster in obese men with Type 2 diabetes after they lost weight.	19 Aug 2011
Parents Misled By Advocates Of Single-sex Education According To Scientists From The Chicago Medical School Review highlights flawed logic of segregating boys and girls for education purposes, based on alleged brain differencesThere is no scientific basis for teaching boys and girls differently and separately, according to Lise Eliot from The Chicago Medical School at the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science in the US.	19 Aug 2011

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