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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
J&J Gets FDA Approval Of Potentially Addictive Opioid Nucynta Johnson & Johnson has attained approval for their long standing opioid Nucynta in extended release format by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Nucynta has a high potential for abuse, and users may become psychologically or physically dependent on the drug so this approval is somewhat controversial.	26 Aug 2011
Networking Site Usage By Teens Linked To Higher Smoking, Drinking And Drug Consumption, USA Teenagers in the USA who regularly use networking web sites are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol and use drugs, says a survey carried out by CASA Columbia (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University), titled the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents.	26 Aug 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Supports Madera Biosciences With A Grant To Advance Novel Drug Candidates For Alzheimer's Disease The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) announced that it has awarded a grant of $294,000 to Madera Biosciences, Inc. to develop small molecule drugs designed to clear accumulated beta-amyloid from the brain and thus halt or reverse the progression of Alzheimer's disease.	26 Aug 2011
Natural Alzheimer's-Fighting Compound Created In Lab Scientists at Yale University have developed the first practical method to create a compound called huperzine A in the lab. The compound, which occurs naturally in a species of moss found in China, is an enzyme inhibitor that has been used to treat Alzheimer's disease in China since the late 1990s and is sold in the U.	26 Aug 2011
NIH-Oxford Collaboration Produces Detailed Map Of Gene Activity In Mouse Brain; May Offer Clues Into Human Brain Diseases A new atlas of gene expression in the mouse brain provides insight into how genes work in the outer part of the brain called the cerebral cortex. In humans, the cerebral cortex is the largest part of the brain, and the region responsible for memory, sensory perception and language.	26 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
New Gene Identified That Affects Levels Of Pain In Osteoarthritis Researchers have revealed a new gene associated with osteoarthritis. This is only the third gene to be identified for this painful and debilitating disease that affects more than 40 per cent of people aged more than 70 years.	26 Aug 2011
Patients Experience Reduced Arthritis Pain And Increased Quality Of Life When Realistic Physical Activity Goals Are Achieved Researchers from The Netherlands report that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who have higher levels of self-efficacy for physical activity are more likely to achieve their physical activity goals.	26 Aug 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Wide Gap Found In Immune Responses Of People Exposed To The Flu Why do some folks who take every precaution still get the flu, while others never even get the sniffles?It comes down to a person's immune system response to the flu virus, says Alfred Hero, professor at the University of Michigan College of Engineering.	26 Aug 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
Loss Of Health Insurance Through Unemployment Means Many Skip Needed Health Care Nearly three-quarters (72%) of people who lost their health insurance when they lost their jobs over the last two years said that they skipped needed health care or did not fill prescriptions because of cost, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report.	26 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
FDA Approves Shire's FIRAZYR® (icatibant Injection) For Acute Attacks Of Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY), the global specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for FIRAZYR® (icatibant injection) for treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adults 18 years of age and older.	26 Aug 2011
FDA Approves Firazyr To Treat Acute Attacks Of Hereditary Angioedema The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Firazyr (icatibant) Injection for the treatment of acute attacks of a rare condition called hereditary angioedema (HAE) in people ages 18 years and older.	26 Aug 2011
The American Heart Association Announces New Digital Tools To Extend Access Of Journal Circulation For Cardiologists The American Heart Association (AHA) announced new digital tools that provide members and subscribers advanced access to its Circulation journal through the release of a mobile view website and iPad app.	26 Aug 2011
Heart May Hold Key To Unexplained Nausea In Youths Heart rate and blood pressure regulation may hold the key to treating unexplained chronic nausea in children. In a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a drug commonly used to treat a condition known as orthostatic intolerance (OI), which causes dizziness and occasional fainting when patients stand for long periods, was shown to reduce debilitating chronic nausea in patients.	26 Aug 2011
Hospital Deaths From Heart Failure Cut By Half Over Seven Years The death rate of hospital patients who were admitted primarily for heart failure fell roughly by half between 2000 and 2007 from 55 deaths to 28 deaths per 1,000 admissions, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.	26 Aug 2011
Legs For Life Gears Up Two articles in the Society of Interventional Radiology's flagship publication, theJournal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, report on studies related to peripheral arterial disease or PAD - coinciding with the approach of September's National PAD Awareness Month.	26 Aug 2011
Disease-Causing Fat Cells Found In Those With Metabolic Syndrome UC Davis Health System researchers have discovered biological indicators that help explain why some obese people develop chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and others do not.	26 Aug 2011
Undernutrition In Childhood, Adolescence Or Young Adulthood Increases Risk Of Heart Disease Later A study of women who were children, teenagers or young adults during the Dutch famine in 1944-45 has shown that undernutrition, particularly in the adolescent years, is associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease in later life.	26 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Anxiety Therapy Combined With Video Games Researchers say tuition and pressure to achieve top grades are just a few of the reasons that today's young people suffer from increased anxiety and seek therapy.In order to enhance the experience of therapy, a team of students and faculty from Rochester Institute of Technology and St.	26 Aug 2011

Mental Health News
Majority Of Homeless People Have Chronic Health Conditions More than eight out of 10 homeless people surveyed by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and elsewhere have at least one chronic health condition and more than half have a mental health problem.	26 Aug 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
Seroquel XL Found In Nurofen Plus Packets, UK People in the UK have been warned to be extra careful when purchasing Nurofen Plus packets, because some of them were found to have Seroquel XL 50mg in them, an anti-psychotic medication. Nurofen is a Reckitt Benckiser brand of pain-relieving drugs, mainly sold in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of Europe.	26 Aug 2011

Seniors / Aging News
Forget Something? Seniors Not Getting Meds They Need Post Hospital Senior citizens have been found to often leave hospital care without prescriptions for the medicines they were getting for their illness. This can prove to be deadly in the long run a new data analysis states.	26 Aug 2011
Older Brains Benefit From Learning By Trial And Error Canadian researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way - via trial-and-error learning.The study was led by scientists at Baycrest's world-renowned Rotman Research Institute in Toronto and appears online in the journal Psychology and Aging, ahead of the print edition.	26 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Concluding The Historical Investigation By The President's Bioethics Commission At its public meeting on August 29 in Washington, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues will publicly discuss several key findings as it refines the conclusions of its historical investigation into the U.	26 Aug 2011

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