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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
"Powerful Sway" Of Industry To Cut Avoidable Deaths From Chronic Diseases, BMJ Raises Concern In view of September's summit on non-communicable diseases where world leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York, the BMJ raises serious concerns regarding the "powerful sway" of the tobacco, alcohol, food and drug industries as international governments prepare to agree global targets to cut avoidable deaths from chronic diseases.	24 Aug 2011
Support From Doctors May Help Smokers With Comorbid Conditions To Quit Smokers who also have alcohol, drug and mental disorders would benefit greatly from smoking cession counseling from their primary care physicians and would be five times more successful at kicking the habit, a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.	24 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Brain Scan Detects Alzheimer's Disease Risk In Healthy Individuals Biochemical changes in the brains of healthy individuals can be identified by an imaging technique - proton MR spectroscopy - indicating whether they may be at risk for Alzheimer's disease, researchers from the Mayo Clinic reported in the journal Neurology.	24 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Smoking Linked With Chronic Pain Smokers are much more likely to report problems with persistent musculoskeletal pain than non-smokers, according to a new study reported in the Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society.	24 Aug 2011

Dentistry News
Pain-Free Repair Of Teeth With New Peptide Fluid Researchers at the University of Leeds have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and re-builds teeth as new.The pioneering treatment promises to transform the approach to filling teeth forever.	24 Aug 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
How FluMist Elicits Protection New research from the Trudeau Institute may help to explain why live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), commonly known as FluMist, elicits protection. The research is published in this month's issue of Vaccine.	24 Aug 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Many US Employers Unsure About Impact Of State-based Insurance Exchanges In 2014 45% of US employers are going to rethink their long-term health care strategy next year, and a significant number are unsure how they will react to the impending impact of state-based insurance Exchanges in 2014, according to a survey carried out by Towers Watson, involving 368 medium-to-large companies.	24 Aug 2011
In Canada Alternative Health-Care Funding Will Not Lower Costs Alternative funding for health care in Canada will not result in lower costs nor contribute to financial sustainability, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).Recent reports from prominent think tanks have urged such solutions as severe cuts to health care, increased taxes, private health insurance, copayments for publicly funded services as well as other methods of raising funds.	24 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
Get With The Guidelines For Heart Failure Provides Equal Care For Men And Women Women received nearly the same quality of care as men at hospitals using the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Heart Failure program, according to a study reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.	24 Aug 2011
Faster Diagnosis With Less Radiation: New Heart Scan New technology appears to provide faster, more accurate heart scans for both viewing blood vessels in the heart and measuring blood supply to the heart muscle, while exposing patients to less radiation, researchers report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, a journal of the American Heart Association.	24 Aug 2011
Fibroblast Growth Factor Defining Heart Tissues And The Hope Of Cardiovascular Patients? Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) already account for one third of all global deaths and raising, with effective heart regeneration therapies yet to be developed despite worldwide research efforts.	24 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Telephone Intervention Helps Patients Maintain Exercise When The Cardiac Rehab Is Complete Researchers from The Miriam Hospital have found that patients who have completed cardiac rehabilitation and who receive telephone counseling that supports exercise are more likely to adhere to an exercise program.	24 Aug 2011
Algorithm To Improve Remote Electrocardiography Developed By UT Researchers Today someone in a remote village in India is able to run an electrocardiogram (ECG) via their smart phone on a loved one having a potential heart attack and send to a doctor in New Delhi for analysis.	24 Aug 2011
Identifying Postoperative Complications With A Test Search Tool Proves Effective A study in the August 24/31 issue of JAMA has found a significant benefit in using natural language processing for identifying postoperative surgical complications. The natural language process can be used to find clinical and progress notes of patients through searches made in electronic medical records (EMRs) and performs better than commonly used administrative data codes to identify any postoperative surgical complications.	24 Aug 2011
Measurement Tools For Traffic Crash Injury Severity Improving Efforts to improve traffic safety have been aided by mathematical models that allow researchers to better assess those factors that impact the degree of injury suffered as a result of traffic crashes, a Wayne State University researcher says.	24 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
Support From Doctors May Help Smokers With Comorbid Conditions To Quit Smokers who also have alcohol, drug and mental disorders would benefit greatly from smoking cession counseling from their primary care physicians and would be five times more successful at kicking the habit, a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found.	24 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Labial Reduction Surgery Pursued By Women For Cosmetic Reasons Women with normal sized labia minora still seek labial reduction surgery for cosmetic reasons finds new research published today (24 August) in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.	24 Aug 2011

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