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Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
White House Drug Policy Office Awards More Than $88 Million To Local Communities To Prevent Youth Substance Use Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), today announced $12.3 million in new Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) grants to 87 communities and 20 new DFC Mentoring grants across the country.	30 Aug 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Preventing The Formation Of Amyloid Fibrils A molecule which can stop the formation of long protein strands, known as amyloid fibrils, that cause joint pain in kidney dialysis patients has been identified by researchers at the University of Leeds.	30 Aug 2011

Heart Disease News
For The Management Of Dyslipidaemias, Comprehensive Lipid Control Recommended Using Lifestyle And Tailoring Treatment To Patients Lifestyle interventions, including stopping smoking, improving diet, exercising sufficiently and moderate alcohol consumption, should be the crucial first step for managing lipids in all patients.	30 Aug 2011
Increase In Cardiac Problems During Pregnancy: New ESC Guidelines Emphasise The Importance Of Screening And Risk Assessment Pre-existing heart disease is rarely a contraindication to pregnancy - indeed, many women with heart disorders tolerate pregnancy well - but it remains a "major concern" that complications are frequent and in some cases may be life-threatening for both the mother and her child.	30 Aug 2011
High Strain Jobs Increase Heart Disease Risk A study presented at the ESC Congress 2011 by Finnish researchers, showed that high job demands coupled with low job control to meet these demands, refer to a "high strain job" - a situation which is a risk for heart health and even mortality [1, 2].	30 Aug 2011
Laughter Has A Positive Impact On Vascular Function "The idea to study positive emotions, such as laughter came about after studies had shown that mental stress caused blood vessels to constrict", says Dr. Michael Miller, Professor of Medicine and lead investigator.	30 Aug 2011
It's Official Chocolate Linked To Heart Health High levels of chocolate consumption might be associated with a one third reduction in the risk of developing heart disease, finds a study published on bmj.com today.The findings confirm results of existing studies that generally agree on a potential beneficial link between chocolate consumption and heart health.	30 Aug 2011
Children First; How A Cardiovascular Prevention Programme In A Brazilian School Reduced Parents' Cardiovascular Risk By 91% "A multidisciplinary educational programme in cardiovascular prevention directed to children of school age can reduce their parents' cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular prevention could have more success focusing on children first, inducing healthier lifestyle habits in the whole family, "said investigator Luciana Fornari, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.	30 Aug 2011
Discontinuation Of Smokeless Tobacco (snus) After Myocardial Infarction Linked To Improved Survival In this prospective cohort study, presented at the ESC Congress 2011, discontinuation of smokeless tobacco after a myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with a lower risk of subsequent mortality.	30 Aug 2011
Cycling Fast, Vigorous Daily Exercise Recommended For A Longer Life A study conducted among cyclists in Copenhagen, Denmark1 showed that it is the relative intensity and not the duration of cycling which is of most importance in relation to all-cause mortality and even more pronounced for coronary heart disease mortality.	30 Aug 2011
Gender Differences In Clinical Presentation And Outcome Of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) For Severe Aortic Stenosis Severe aortic stenosis (AS) is increasing in frequency as the population ages. For a subset of patients in whom surgical conventional aortic valve replacement is excluded due to severe co-morbidities, an alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI)- has emerged with a first-in-man case performed in France in 2002 by Pr.	30 Aug 2011
Cigarette Smoking Causes More Arterial Damage In Women Than In Men The harmful effects of tobacco smoke on atherosclerosis, one of the driving forces of cardiovascular disease, are greater in women than in men. This result emerges from the large European epidemiological study (Carotid Intima Media thickness and IMT-PROgression as predictors of Vascular Events: the IMPROVE study), funded by EU (Vth Framework Program Contract n.	30 Aug 2011
Prevention Of Sudden Cardiac Death Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Universität Leiden developed a method to identify a subgroup of patients with myocardial infarction that is at increased risk for sudden cardiac death. In cardiac magnetic resonance tomography (CMR) the scientists are able to detect the extent of infarction-related damage to the heart muscle and assess the risk for life-threatening arrhythmias.	30 Aug 2011
In Patients With Myocardial Infarction, Anger Predicts Long-Term Mortality There is a growing awareness that psychological factors play a major role in triggering and modulating the progression of ischemic heart disease. Negative emotions such as hostility, anger, depression, anxiety and social isolation are cardio-toxic, whereas positive feelings characterized by imagination, empathy, and spiritual interests are cardio-protective.	30 Aug 2011
Pericardial Fat Boosts Heart Attack Risk Pericardial thickness was significantly correlated with coronary arterial remodeling and non calcified plaque - related to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a Japanese study presented at the ESC Congress 2011 by Dr Riyo Ogura.	30 Aug 2011
The Correlation Of Triglyceride And Glucose Tolerance With Cardiovascular Outcomes In Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease The Homburg Cream and Sugar (HCS) study was designed to determine whether the measurement of postprandial triglyceride in addition to the assessment of glucose tolerance and traditional risk factors might improve the prediction of cardiovascular events.	30 Aug 2011
Effects Of Dalcetrapib On Vascular Function: Results Of Phase IIb Dal-VESSEL Study Results of the phase IIb dal-VESSEL study show that dalcetrapib, an investigational molecule which acts on cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), did not impair endothelial function (as indicated by flow-mediated dilatation) or increase blood pressure, and was generally well tolerated in patients with or at risk of coronary heart disease.	30 Aug 2011
Hair Cell-Derived Patient-Specific Heart Cells For Disease Modeling And Drug Screening Hair follicle keratinocytes offer a simple and accessible route to generate patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs, with minimum inconvenience for the patients, shows a study presented at the ESC Congress 2011.	30 Aug 2011
Harmful Toxins A Threat To Children With Congenital Heart Disease Babies and toddlers with congenital heart disease are at an increased risk of having harmful toxins in their blood, particularly following surgery, according to research by a team at Imperial College London.	30 Aug 2011
Genes Play Largest Role In Coronary Heart Disease, Not Family Lifestyle It has long been known that hereditary factors play a role in coronary heart disease. However, it has been unclear whether the increased risk is transferred through the genes or through an unhealthy lifestyle in the family.	30 Aug 2011
High Chocolate Consumption May Reduce Heart Disease Risk By One Third Consuming lots of chocolate appears to reduce the risk of developing heart disease by one third, researchers from the University of Cambridge, England reported in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) and the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Paris, France.	30 Aug 2011
Despite Improvements In Other Risk Factors, Lower Socioeconomic Status Still Linked With Heart Disease People with lower socioeconomic status are much more likely to develop heart disease than those who are wealthier or better educated, according to a recent UC Davis study. Published online in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, the outcomes also show that this risk persists even with long-term progress in addressing traditional risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol.	30 Aug 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Implanted Sensor Chip For Monitoring Tumors A chip implant may soon be capable of monitoring tumors that are difficult to operate on orgrowing slowly. Medical engineers at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) have developedan electronic sensor chip that can determine the oxygen content in a patient's tissue fluid.	30 Aug 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Guatemalan STD Experiments In The 1940s, Bioethics Commission Concludes Investigation The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has concluded its investigation into STD (sexually transmitted disease) experiments carried out in Guatemala in the 1940s without people's consent.	30 Aug 2011

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