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Aid / Disasters News
Global CO2 Emissions Reach Record High Energy-related CO2 emissions reached a record high in 2010, raising doubts that agreed limits on global warming will be achieved by 2020, according to the Paris-based international energy watchdog, the IEA.	31 May 2011
Limb Salvage Team Helps Victims Of Haitian Earthquake A team of plastic and orthopedic surgeons achieved a high success rate in limb salvage-minimizing the need for amputations-among patients injured in last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti, reports a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).	31 May 2011

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
New Study: Alcohol Harms The Brain Immediately A nice drink cannot do any harm? Brain says no. A new study by a Chinese research group shows that even low doses of alcohol can harm the brain immediately though not permanently. "We were investigating the acute effects of low and high doses of alcohol by diffusion tensor imaging, wondering whether the consequences of alcohol administration can be observed by the measurement of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA)", said Dr.	31 May 2011
Obesity Greater Risk For Fatty Liver Than Moderate Amounts Of Alcohol Being overweight and resistant to insulin constitute a greater risk for fatty liver than was previously thought, according to a study from Linköping University in Sweden that is now being published in the journal Annals of Medicine.	31 May 2011
The Alcohol Industry Needs More Scrutiny The influence of "Big Alcohol" in the health arena deserves as much scrutiny as Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, especially in light of evidence of bias in funded research, unsupported claims of benefit, and inappropriate promotion and marketing by the alcohol industry, says a new editorial in this week's PLoS Medicine.	31 May 2011

Allergy News
Allergies Worst In Years This Spring, Including Hearing Problems, Chicago Local hearing clinics in Chicago say this is the worst spring in several years for allergy-related hearing problems. Dr. Michael Jones, of the Hearing Health Center (HHC) said he is seeing a large number of patients each week with hearing problems caused by seasonal allergies.	31 May 2011
Spring Allergies Are Affecting Chicagoans' Hearing This spring's spiking pollen count has also created a spike in visits to local hearing clinics. "In previous years we haven't seen anything like this," says Dr. Michael Jones of Hearing Health Center (HHC).	31 May 2011
Serious Adverse Effects From Cosmetics Permanent hair dye gives the most serious adverse effects, yet there are also many reactions to facial and body moisturisers. This comes from the first report from the National Register of Adverse Effects from Cosmetic Products.	31 May 2011

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Similarities Cause Protein Misfolding A large number of illnesses stem from misfolded proteins, molecules composed of amino acids. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now studied protein misfolding using a special spectroscopic technique.	31 May 2011
Thesis Studies Difficulties In Diagnosing Dementia Type Many patients receive an incorrect dementia diagnosis. This is shown by a study carried out by neuropathology researchers in Lund, Sweden."It is true that we know of around 70 different types of dementia, but these findings are shocking.	31 May 2011
New Study: What's Bad For One's Heart Is Bad For One's Brain - Early Alzheimer Related To Risk Factors Such As Hypertension Or Smoking What factors increase the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease at a relatively early age? A new Brazilian study attempts to answer that question by looking at the influence that schooling and cardiovascular risk factors might have on the age of onset of the illness.	31 May 2011
Neurodegeneration From Noncoding RNA May Promote Alzheimer's Disease Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration.	31 May 2011

Anxiety / Stress News
New Study: Post-Stroke Depression Underestimated And Undertreated "Depression and anxiety are common after stroke, affecting one third of stroke survivors. Depression often goes unrecognized and untreated," explained Dr. Jennifer H. White (University of Newcastle, Australia), presenting a new study on post-stroke depression and anxiety today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
Can Stress Increase The Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis? Contrary to earlier reports, a new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The research is published in the May 31, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.	31 May 2011

Arthritis / Rheumatology News
Data Presented At Two Global Medical Congresses Reinforce Benefit Of Enbrel® (etanercept) For Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Conditions Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced new results from multiple studies of ENBREL, further expanding the body of evidence supporting the efficacy and safety profile of ENBREL, the most prescribed biologic by rheumatologists in the United States (U.	31 May 2011
Augurex Reports Positive Data For RA Blood Test And Drug Target At The Annual European Congress Of Rheumatology (EULAR) Augurex Life Sciences Corp. reported that in London at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Conference, leading arthritis researchers presented important data on Augurex's rheumatoid arthritis (RA) biomarker blood test and novel drug target.	31 May 2011

Autism News
Autism: New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011
New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Of Autism Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011

Biology / Biochemistry News
Global CO2 Emissions Reach Record High Energy-related CO2 emissions reached a record high in 2010, raising doubts that agreed limits on global warming will be achieved by 2020, according to the Paris-based international energy watchdog, the IEA.	31 May 2011
SciFluor Life Sciences' Founders Author Review Article In Nature On Advances To Overcome Challenges Associated With Fluorination SciFluor Life Sciences, LLC today announced the publication of a review paper detailing the intricate challenges associated with fluorination and recent advancements in the field to help overcome these challenges.	31 May 2011
Potential Drug Target For Future Malaria And Anti-Cancer Treatments Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell 'motor'.	31 May 2011
The Convergence Of Plant Biology And Computational Wizardry Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment. Unfortunately, they are facing a new and difficult challenge ahead.Ever since the Industrial Revolution, their environment has become more unpredictable and more extreme, at the same time as the world's population is growing.	31 May 2011
Mutated Muscle Protein Causes Deafness Excessive noise is not the only thing that causes damage to hearing. In many cases, genetic factors are responsible for the loss of hearing at a young age. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin together with colleagues from Nijmegen have discovered a previously unknown genetic cause of progressive hearing impairment: the disease is caused by mutations of the SMPX (small muscle protein) gene, which is located on the X chromosome.	31 May 2011
What Is A Laboratory Mouse? Why Do Laboratories Test On Mice? Mice and humans share about 95 percent of their genes, and mice are recognized around the world as the leading experimental model for studying human biology and disease. But, says Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill, Ph.	31 May 2011

Blood / Hematology News
Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone.	31 May 2011
Plasma Blood Resuscitation Protects Blood Vessel Walls Using plasma rather than standard resuscitation fluids seems to improve survival in trauma patients with massive blood loss. Now a new study in animals suggests that this benefit may result from plasma's ability to restore the "endothelial glycocalyx," a special layer lining the blood vessels, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).	31 May 2011
Affymax And Takeda Announce The Submission Of A NDA For Peginesatide For The Treatment Of Anemia Associated With CRF In Patients On Dialysis Affymax, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFY) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502, "Takeda") today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the investigational agent peginesatide (formerly known as Hematide™) for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic renal failure (CRF) in adult patients on dialysis.	31 May 2011
Millennium And Seattle Genetics Announce Brentuximab Vedotin (SGN-35) Presentations At 16th Congress Of The European Hematology Association Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) today announced that an oral presentation and a poster presentation featuring brentuximab vedotin (SGN-35) will be presented at the 16th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) being held from June 9-12, 2011, in London.	31 May 2011
Augurex Reports Positive Data For RA Blood Test And Drug Target At The Annual European Congress Of Rheumatology (EULAR) Augurex Life Sciences Corp. reported that in London at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Conference, leading arthritis researchers presented important data on Augurex's rheumatoid arthritis (RA) biomarker blood test and novel drug target.	31 May 2011
Risk Of Blood Clots In Veins Hereditary Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common type of cardiovascular disease after coronary heart disease and stroke. Researchers at the Centre for Primary Health Care Research in Malmö have mapped the significance of hereditary factors for venous thromboembolism in the entire Swedish population by studying the risk of VTE in children of parents with VTE compared with the children of parents who have not had VTE.	31 May 2011

Body Aches News
Mouse Virus Erroneously Linked To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, UCSF Collaborative Study Finds Two years ago, a widely publicized scientific report plucked an old mouse virus out of obscurity and held it up as a possible cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. According to a new study published today, May 31st, by a group of researchers in California, Wisconsin and Illinois, that report was wrong.	31 May 2011

Bones / Orthopedics News
IOF Position Paper On Breaking The Fracture Cycle Through Effective And Coordinated Models Of Care A prior fracture at least doubles a patient's future fracture risk - yet numerous studies from across the world have found that healthcare systems fail to respond to the first fracture to prevent future fractures.	31 May 2011
Limb Salvage Team Helps Victims Of Haitian Earthquake A team of plastic and orthopedic surgeons achieved a high success rate in limb salvage-minimizing the need for amputations-among patients injured in last year's devastating earthquake in Haiti, reports a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).	31 May 2011
MEDMIX Systems AG Announces Bone Graft Delivery System MEDMIX Systems AG has developed a range of syringes for the preparation of bone graft, autograft, allograft or synthetic variants thereof. The new product line will be featured at 12th EFORT Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, organized by the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopeaedics and Traumatology.	31 May 2011
Active Baby Boomers Fuel Demand For Long Lasting Joint Replacements "The number of patients in their 50s coming into my office asking for joint replacement is higher than ever," says Dr. Steven B. Haas, a knee surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.	31 May 2011
Radius, 3M Drug Delivery Systems Sign Development Agreement For Transdermal Delivery Of BA058 For Treatment Of Osteoporosis Radius Health, Inc. ("Radius") and 3M Drug Delivery Systems ("3M") announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of a transdermal delivery option of BA058, Radius' novel, proprietary PTHrP (parathyroid hormone-related protein) analog, for the treatment of osteoporosis.	31 May 2011
Data Presented At Two Global Medical Congresses Reinforce Benefit Of Enbrel® (etanercept) For Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Conditions Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced new results from multiple studies of ENBREL, further expanding the body of evidence supporting the efficacy and safety profile of ENBREL, the most prescribed biologic by rheumatologists in the United States (U.	31 May 2011

Breast Cancer News
NHS National Innovation Centre Identifies Celution(R) As Cost-Effective Innovative Technology For Partial Breast Reconstruction Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYTX) today announced that results from an economic analysis carried out by the UK NHS National Innovation Centre identified the Celution® System for breast reconstruction as an innovative technology that is bringing benefits to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and breast cancer patients.	31 May 2011
New Breast Screening Guidelines Leave 80% Of Women Uneasy Over four-fifths of women feel uneasy about being told that routine breast cancer screening for the under 50s is not obligatory. Guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 upped the minimum age from which women should routinely be screened for breast cancer from 40 to 50 years, and also said that screening should occur every two years up to the age of 74.	31 May 2011

Cancer / Oncology News
Cellphones Possibly Linked To Cancer Risk In Humans, World Health Organization Cellphones have been classed in category 2B - possibly carcinogenic to humans - by the cancer arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), after an international panel of experts evaluated hundreds of scientific articles.	31 May 2011
Young People With Bowel Cancer: An Increasing Trend - Anecdotal Evidence Now Supported By Australian Data Bowel cancer, already Australia's second leading cause of cancer death, is following international trends and becoming more common in younger people, especially those under 35 years.Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) Australian Cancer Database shows both the incidence of bowel cancer, and deaths from the disease, are increasing more rapidly in younger people than other age groups.	31 May 2011
NHS National Innovation Centre Identifies Celution(R) As Cost-Effective Innovative Technology For Partial Breast Reconstruction Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYTX) today announced that results from an economic analysis carried out by the UK NHS National Innovation Centre identified the Celution® System for breast reconstruction as an innovative technology that is bringing benefits to National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and breast cancer patients.	31 May 2011
2nd Annual Clinical Trials For Oncology - Boston Marriott Copley, 26th - 28th September 2011 Clinical Trials for Oncology focuses on the need of drug developers to bring their clinical trials in line with developments in personalized medicine, targeted therapeutics and adaptive trial design.	31 May 2011
Gene Test Predicts Leukaemia Survival Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have found that a genetic test can be used to identify patients with the most common type of adult leukaemia who will not respond well to currently available drugs and should instead be considered for experimental treatments.	31 May 2011
UK Advice On Sun Creams "not In The Interests Of Public Health," Warns DTB The strength of sun cream recently recommended by the National Institutefor Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to stave off sunburn is far toolow and "not in the interests of public health," warns the Drug andTherapeutics Bulletin (DTB).	31 May 2011
Affymetrix Selects BioDiscovery As OncoScan™ FFPE Express Preferred Software Provider Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced a co-marketing agreement naming BioDiscovery, Inc. its preferred software provider for Affymetrix OncoScan™ FFPE Express Service data analysis.	31 May 2011
Millennium And Seattle Genetics Announce Brentuximab Vedotin (SGN-35) Presentations At 16th Congress Of The European Hematology Association Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) today announced that an oral presentation and a poster presentation featuring brentuximab vedotin (SGN-35) will be presented at the 16th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) being held from June 9-12, 2011, in London.	31 May 2011
Potential Drug Target For Future Malaria And Anti-Cancer Treatments Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell 'motor'.	31 May 2011
Researchers Bringing Failing Hearts Back From The Brink A promising cancer treatment drug can restore function of a heart en route to failure from high blood pressure, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.The drug, a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor being evaluated in numerous ongoing clinical trials, has been shown to reverse the harmful effects of autophagy in heart muscle cells of mice.	31 May 2011
New Breast Screening Guidelines Leave 80% Of Women Uneasy Over four-fifths of women feel uneasy about being told that routine breast cancer screening for the under 50s is not obligatory. Guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 upped the minimum age from which women should routinely be screened for breast cancer from 40 to 50 years, and also said that screening should occur every two years up to the age of 74.	31 May 2011
Frequently Cited Studies On Biomarkers Often Report Larger Effect Size Estimates Than In Subsequent Studies Highly cited studies involving associations of biomarkers report effect sizes that are often larger when compared to summary estimates from meta-analyses evaluating the same associations, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA.	31 May 2011
Society Of Gynecologic Oncology Sets New Standards To Monitor Recurrence Of Gynecologic Cancer More Effectively Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10 percent of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20 percent of all female cancer survivors. Because long-term survival is now more common, it is increasingly important to detect recurrence.	31 May 2011

Cardiovascular / Cardiology News
Niacin Does Not Reduce Stroke Or Heart Attack Risk, Trial Ended 18 Months Early Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, vitamin B3 or vitamin PP does not protect patients with vascular and heart disease from stroke or heart attack. A clinical trial which compared combination niacin with a statin versus statins alone had to be ended 18 months early, according to Abbot Laboratories and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.	31 May 2011
Mental Health Heart Link Already Established, Says Charity New research has suggested people with significant mental illness may not be receiving the care they need after a heart attack. Researchers from the University of Leicester compared the care given to those with and without serious mental disorders and found the number of mentally ill people who died of acute coronary events, like a heart attack, was higher than expected.	31 May 2011
New Study: What's Bad For One's Heart Is Bad For One's Brain - Early Alzheimer Related To Risk Factors Such As Hypertension Or Smoking What factors increase the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease at a relatively early age? A new Brazilian study attempts to answer that question by looking at the influence that schooling and cardiovascular risk factors might have on the age of onset of the illness.	31 May 2011
Risk Of Blood Clots In Veins Hereditary Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common type of cardiovascular disease after coronary heart disease and stroke. Researchers at the Centre for Primary Health Care Research in Malmö have mapped the significance of hereditary factors for venous thromboembolism in the entire Swedish population by studying the risk of VTE in children of parents with VTE compared with the children of parents who have not had VTE.	31 May 2011
Frequently Cited Studies On Biomarkers Often Report Larger Effect Size Estimates Than In Subsequent Studies Highly cited studies involving associations of biomarkers report effect sizes that are often larger when compared to summary estimates from meta-analyses evaluating the same associations, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA.	31 May 2011
Threshold Haemoglobin And Mortality In People With Stable Coronary Disease In this week's PLoS Medicine, Anoop Shah of University College London and colleagues report that, in people with stable coronary disease, there were threshold haemoglobin values below which mortality increased in a graded, continuous fashion.	31 May 2011

Cervical Cancer / HPV Vaccine News
Society Of Gynecologic Oncology Sets New Standards To Monitor Recurrence Of Gynecologic Cancer More Effectively Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10 percent of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20 percent of all female cancer survivors. Because long-term survival is now more common, it is increasingly important to detect recurrence.	31 May 2011

Cholesterol News
Niacin Does Not Reduce Stroke Or Heart Attack Risk, Trial Ended 18 Months Early Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, vitamin B3 or vitamin PP does not protect patients with vascular and heart disease from stroke or heart attack. A clinical trial which compared combination niacin with a statin versus statins alone had to be ended 18 months early, according to Abbot Laboratories and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.	31 May 2011
New Advances In Lipid Genetics Lead To Better Detection And Prevention Of Major Diseases Researchers from the US and The Netherlands have found ways to earlier and better prediction of diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and heart disease through studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids in blood plasma.	31 May 2011

Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News
2nd Annual Clinical Trials For Oncology - Boston Marriott Copley, 26th - 28th September 2011 Clinical Trials for Oncology focuses on the need of drug developers to bring their clinical trials in line with developments in personalized medicine, targeted therapeutics and adaptive trial design.	31 May 2011
SMi Group Announce Pharmaceutical And Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific Conference, 18th & 19th July 2011 SMi Group is delighted to announce their Pharmaceutical and Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific conference. Taking place on the 18th & 19th July in Singapore, this event will discuss best strategies in achieving reliable and cost-effective supply chain and logistics systems currently being developed in the APAC region.	31 May 2011
Pivotal Phase 3 Study Published In The New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) Finds Overall Survival Of Patients With Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo.	31 May 2011
Data Presented At Two Global Medical Congresses Reinforce Benefit Of Enbrel® (etanercept) For Patients With Chronic Inflammatory Conditions Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) announced new results from multiple studies of ENBREL, further expanding the body of evidence supporting the efficacy and safety profile of ENBREL, the most prescribed biologic by rheumatologists in the United States (U.	31 May 2011
Vitamin E Tocotrienol Shows Increased Cancer Cell Apoptosis Without Toxicity In Phase 1 Pancreatic Cancer Trial Davos Life Science (DavosLife) has announced preliminary results of a phase I clinical trial of its Natural e3 delta-tocotrienol (Natural e3) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer. Tocotrienols are highly potent members of the Vitamin E family that have been found by researchers to inhibit the growth and survival of various types of cancer cells.	31 May 2011

Conferences News
2nd Annual Clinical Trials For Oncology - Boston Marriott Copley, 26th - 28th September 2011 Clinical Trials for Oncology focuses on the need of drug developers to bring their clinical trials in line with developments in personalized medicine, targeted therapeutics and adaptive trial design.	31 May 2011
Hope For Ovarian Cancer Patients With The Help Of Targeted Testing Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh hope this improved diagnosis will help doctors to personalise treatment programmes so that patients receive the most effective drugs.	31 May 2011
SMi Group Announce ADMET: Translating Research Into Clinical Outcomes Conference, 6th & 7th July 2011, London SMi Group presents ADMET: Translating Research into Clinical Outcomes conference, to be held on 6 & 7 July 2011 in London. It will address in vivo, in silico & in vitro ADMET case studies in examples showcased by a renowned line up of speakers.	31 May 2011
SMi Group Announce Pharmaceutical And Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific Conference, 18th & 19th July 2011 SMi Group is delighted to announce their Pharmaceutical and Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific conference. Taking place on the 18th & 19th July in Singapore, this event will discuss best strategies in achieving reliable and cost-effective supply chain and logistics systems currently being developed in the APAC region.	31 May 2011
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests Neither Accurate In Their Predictions Nor Beneficial To Individuals Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests give inaccurate predictions of disease risks and many European geneticists believe that some of them should be banned, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today (Tuesday).	31 May 2011

Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery News
Serious Adverse Effects From Cosmetics Permanent hair dye gives the most serious adverse effects, yet there are also many reactions to facial and body moisturisers. This comes from the first report from the National Register of Adverse Effects from Cosmetic Products.	31 May 2011
New Technique Doubles Breast Size Using Patient's Own Fat A plastic surgery procedure in which the patient's own fat is transplanted to the breasts-used along with treatment to expand the breast tissue before surgery-can achieve up to a twofold increase in breast size, according to a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).	31 May 2011
Active Baby Boomers Fuel Demand For Long Lasting Joint Replacements "The number of patients in their 50s coming into my office asking for joint replacement is higher than ever," says Dr. Steven B. Haas, a knee surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.	31 May 2011
BioDrain Medical, Inc. Granted Canadian Patent For Its Streamway® Surgical Fluid Management System BioDrain Medical, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BIOR), producer of the FDA cleared Streamway® System for automated surgical fluid disposal, announced the Canadian Intellectual Property Office has issued patent Number 2,495,747 for the Company's Streamway System "for disposing of liquid surgical waste for protection of healthcare workers.	31 May 2011

Cystic Fibrosis News
Unexpected Help From Cystic Fibrosis Bacteria - Antibiotic Resistance A bacteria which infects people with cystic fibrosis could help combat other antibiotic-resistant microbes, according to a team from Cardiff and Warwick Universities.Continuous use of existing antibiotics means that resistant bacteria are now causing major health problems all over the world.	31 May 2011

Depression News
New Study: Post-Stroke Depression Underestimated And Undertreated "Depression and anxiety are common after stroke, affecting one third of stroke survivors. Depression often goes unrecognized and untreated," explained Dr. Jennifer H. White (University of Newcastle, Australia), presenting a new study on post-stroke depression and anxiety today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
Feeling "In Control" Tied To Lower Risk Of Depression Among African American Men African American men who feel "in control" of their lives are less likely to suffer from depressive symptoms, according to a study published recently in the journal Research on Social Work Practice.	31 May 2011

Dermatology News
Serious Adverse Effects From Cosmetics Permanent hair dye gives the most serious adverse effects, yet there are also many reactions to facial and body moisturisers. This comes from the first report from the National Register of Adverse Effects from Cosmetic Products.	31 May 2011
UK Advice On Sun Creams "not In The Interests Of Public Health," Warns DTB The strength of sun cream recently recommended by the National Institutefor Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to stave off sunburn is far toolow and "not in the interests of public health," warns the Drug andTherapeutics Bulletin (DTB).	31 May 2011

Diabetes News
HbA1C Test For Glucose Monitoring Poorly Predictive In Dialysis Patients The gold standard long-term glucose monitoring test for patients with diabetes proved to be of limited value in dialysis patients, according to a new study at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.	31 May 2011
Fracture Prediction Methods May Be Useful For Patients With Diabetes Use of established fracture prediction methods in older patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) found that scores from these methods were associated with hip and nonspine fracture risk, and a certain score associated with higher risk of fracture compared to persons without DM, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA.	31 May 2011

Ear, Nose and Throat News
Allergies Worst In Years This Spring, Including Hearing Problems, Chicago Local hearing clinics in Chicago say this is the worst spring in several years for allergy-related hearing problems. Dr. Michael Jones, of the Hearing Health Center (HHC) said he is seeing a large number of patients each week with hearing problems caused by seasonal allergies.	31 May 2011

Flu / Cold / SARS News
Link Between Influenza Vaccination In Pregnancy And Reduced Risk Of Premature Birth A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that there might be an association between maternal immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and reduced likelihood of prematurity and the baby being small for gestational age.	31 May 2011

GastroIntestinal / Gastroenterology News
Young People With Bowel Cancer: An Increasing Trend - Anecdotal Evidence Now Supported By Australian Data Bowel cancer, already Australia's second leading cause of cancer death, is following international trends and becoming more common in younger people, especially those under 35 years.Data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare's (AIHW) Australian Cancer Database shows both the incidence of bowel cancer, and deaths from the disease, are increasing more rapidly in younger people than other age groups.	31 May 2011
Shorter Wait Times For Weight-Loss Surgery In Private Clinics But Quality Of Patient Care May Be Suffering Private health clinics across Canada providing weight-loss surgeries are offering much shorter wait times but at a hefty cost and at the expense of quality patient care, according to a new study led by St.	31 May 2011
Cholera's Challenge To Haiti And The World Debate about the public health response to Haiti's cholera epidemic continues as the crisis enters its ninth month, with some experts arguing that a vaccination campaign in Haiti would be neither feasible nor cost-effective, and advocating putting forth other measures.	31 May 2011

Genetics News
Similarities Cause Protein Misfolding A large number of illnesses stem from misfolded proteins, molecules composed of amino acids. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now studied protein misfolding using a special spectroscopic technique.	31 May 2011
Hope For Ovarian Cancer Patients With The Help Of Targeted Testing Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh hope this improved diagnosis will help doctors to personalise treatment programmes so that patients receive the most effective drugs.	31 May 2011
Gene Test Predicts Leukaemia Survival Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have found that a genetic test can be used to identify patients with the most common type of adult leukaemia who will not respond well to currently available drugs and should instead be considered for experimental treatments.	31 May 2011
Affymetrix Selects BioDiscovery As OncoScan™ FFPE Express Preferred Software Provider Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced a co-marketing agreement naming BioDiscovery, Inc. its preferred software provider for Affymetrix OncoScan™ FFPE Express Service data analysis.	31 May 2011
Neurodegeneration From Noncoding RNA May Promote Alzheimer's Disease Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration.	31 May 2011
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests Neither Accurate In Their Predictions Nor Beneficial To Individuals Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests give inaccurate predictions of disease risks and many European geneticists believe that some of them should be banned, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today (Tuesday).	31 May 2011
AIBioTech Working With FDA To Ensure New Genetic Test Remains Available To Consumers American International Biotechnology Services (AIBioTech) announced it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to keep its Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers. The test panel screens athletes and young sports competitors for undiagnosed risk factors and athletic strengths to make awareness of potential health conditions more precise and workouts more effective.	31 May 2011
Signal Genetics Announces Commercialization Partnership With NeoGenomics Laboratories For Multiple Myeloma Gene Expression Test Signal Genetics, the parent company of Myeloma Health LLC and Respira Health LLC, a privately held predictive genetic testing company focused on oncology, announced a new agreement under which NeoGenomics Laboratories will offer Signal Genetics' new gene expression profile test for Multiple Myeloma (MyPRS™) to pathologists and hospital-based hematologists/oncologists nationwide.	31 May 2011
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children To Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease Dutch researchers have developed a test which predicts which mothers at risk of passing on mitochondrial genetic disease to their children are likely to have a healthy baby.Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday).	31 May 2011
New Advances In Lipid Genetics Lead To Better Detection And Prevention Of Major Diseases Researchers from the US and The Netherlands have found ways to earlier and better prediction of diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and heart disease through studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids in blood plasma.	31 May 2011
For Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease, PGD Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics yesterday (Monday).	31 May 2011
What Is A Laboratory Mouse? Why Do Laboratories Test On Mice? Mice and humans share about 95 percent of their genes, and mice are recognized around the world as the leading experimental model for studying human biology and disease. But, says Jackson Laboratory Professor Gary Churchill, Ph.	31 May 2011

Headache / Migraine News
New Study: Migraine After Menopause Is Predictable The prognosis for a reduction in migraine attacks after menopause improves if there had been a strong relationship between headache and menses during a woman's fertility years. This and related conclusions are part of a new study presented today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
New Study: Helicobacter Pylori Infection Increases Severity And Frequency Of Migraine Helicobacter pylori infections are commonly linked to symptoms such as nausea and abdominal pain. Now, a group of Iranian researchers from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Najafabd Branch, showed that Helicobacter pylori infections can affect one's head as well as stomach.	31 May 2011

Health Insurance / Medical Insurance News
HHS To Reduce Premiums, Make It Easier For Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions To Get Health Insurance The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced new steps to reduce premiums and make it easier for Americans to enroll in the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan. Premiums for the Federally-administered Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) will drop as much as 40 percent in 18 States, and eligibility standards will be eased in 23 States and the District of Columbia to ensure more Americans with pre-existing conditions have access to affordable health insurance.	31 May 2011
HHS Secretary To Announce Steps To Make It Easier For Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions To Get Health Insurance On Tuesday May 31, HHS Secretary will join Suzanne Hannon, PCIP Member, John Berry, Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and John H. Klippel, CEO and Founder, Arthritis Foundation, to make an announcement on the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), a program made possible by the Affordable Care Act, for people who are unable to purchase coverage due to their medical condition.	31 May 2011

Hearing / Deafness News
Allergies Worst In Years This Spring, Including Hearing Problems, Chicago Local hearing clinics in Chicago say this is the worst spring in several years for allergy-related hearing problems. Dr. Michael Jones, of the Hearing Health Center (HHC) said he is seeing a large number of patients each week with hearing problems caused by seasonal allergies.	31 May 2011
Spring Allergies Are Affecting Chicagoans' Hearing This spring's spiking pollen count has also created a spike in visits to local hearing clinics. "In previous years we haven't seen anything like this," says Dr. Michael Jones of Hearing Health Center (HHC).	31 May 2011
Mutated Muscle Protein Causes Deafness Excessive noise is not the only thing that causes damage to hearing. In many cases, genetic factors are responsible for the loss of hearing at a young age. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin together with colleagues from Nijmegen have discovered a previously unknown genetic cause of progressive hearing impairment: the disease is caused by mutations of the SMPX (small muscle protein) gene, which is located on the X chromosome.	31 May 2011

Heart Disease News
Researchers Bringing Failing Hearts Back From The Brink A promising cancer treatment drug can restore function of a heart en route to failure from high blood pressure, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.The drug, a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor being evaluated in numerous ongoing clinical trials, has been shown to reverse the harmful effects of autophagy in heart muscle cells of mice.	31 May 2011
Threshold Haemoglobin And Mortality In People With Stable Coronary Disease In this week's PLoS Medicine, Anoop Shah of University College London and colleagues report that, in people with stable coronary disease, there were threshold haemoglobin values below which mortality increased in a graded, continuous fashion.	31 May 2011

HIV / AIDS News
Timely Commitment From Top Leadership At AIDS Meeting As the AIDS response reaches a critical turning point, world leaders are showing renewed commitment to AIDS as more than 30 Heads of State and Government and Vice Presidents are expected to convene at next week's UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS.	31 May 2011
THT Launches New Weekly HIV Testing Session In Telford, UK HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is to launch a mid-week rapid HIV testing session in Telford, to compliment the existing weekend service. Following a launch event on Friday 10th June, the service will run every Wednesday evening from THT's centre on Park Street.	31 May 2011
AIDS In America After 30 Years: Facts, New Legislation HIV/AIDS made a name for itself in the 1980's in the United States. Now 30 years later, the nation reflects this week on the history of the disease and the impact it has made on the most infected cities such as Washington D.	31 May 2011
Distinguished Researchers Outline Critical Elements Needed To Control And End The HIV And AIDS Pandemic In an article published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr.	31 May 2011
At Thirty Years, Distinguished Researchers Outline Critical Elements Needed To Control And End The HIV And AIDS Pandemic In an article published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP), Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and Dr.	31 May 2011

Hypertension News

Researchers Bringing Failing Hearts Back From The Brink A promising cancer treatment drug can restore function of a heart en route to failure from high blood pressure, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.The drug, a type of histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor being evaluated in numerous ongoing clinical trials, has been shown to reverse the harmful effects of autophagy in heart muscle cells of mice.

31 May 2011

Immune System / Vaccines News
Online Tool To Search The Web For Dengue Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world.	31 May 2011
Roche Applied Science And TIB Molbiol Offer Assay Solution For Rapid EHEC Identification With the recent outbreak in Europe of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Roche Applied Science (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and TIB Molbiol are providing scientists with complementary technologies that can be used for the rapid identification and detection of EHEC.	31 May 2011
Human Health At Risk From 'E-Waste Pollution' In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress - precursors to cardiovascular disease, DNA damage and possibly cancer.	31 May 2011
Link Between Influenza Vaccination In Pregnancy And Reduced Risk Of Premature Birth A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that there might be an association between maternal immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and reduced likelihood of prematurity and the baby being small for gestational age.	31 May 2011

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
Study Finds Dangerous Bacteria On Cell Phones Of Hospital Patients Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers (HCW), according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.	31 May 2011
Mouse Virus Erroneously Linked To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, UCSF Collaborative Study Finds Two years ago, a widely publicized scientific report plucked an old mouse virus out of obscurity and held it up as a possible cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. According to a new study published today, May 31st, by a group of researchers in California, Wisconsin and Illinois, that report was wrong.	31 May 2011
New Study: Helicobacter Pylori Infection Increases Severity And Frequency Of Migraine Helicobacter pylori infections are commonly linked to symptoms such as nausea and abdominal pain. Now, a group of Iranian researchers from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Najafabd Branch, showed that Helicobacter pylori infections can affect one's head as well as stomach.	31 May 2011
Roche Applied Science And TIB Molbiol Offer Assay Solution For Rapid EHEC Identification With the recent outbreak in Europe of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Roche Applied Science (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and TIB Molbiol are providing scientists with complementary technologies that can be used for the rapid identification and detection of EHEC.	31 May 2011
Unexpected Help From Cystic Fibrosis Bacteria - Antibiotic Resistance A bacteria which infects people with cystic fibrosis could help combat other antibiotic-resistant microbes, according to a team from Cardiff and Warwick Universities.Continuous use of existing antibiotics means that resistant bacteria are now causing major health problems all over the world.	31 May 2011
Early Use Of Corticosteroids Speeds Recovery From Community-Acquired Pneumonia The addition of corticosteroids to antibiotics might reduce disease severity and help patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) recover more quickly than treatment with antibiotics alone.	31 May 2011
Cholera's Challenge To Haiti And The World Debate about the public health response to Haiti's cholera epidemic continues as the crisis enters its ninth month, with some experts arguing that a vaccination campaign in Haiti would be neither feasible nor cost-effective, and advocating putting forth other measures.	31 May 2011
Provision Of Subsidized Malaria Drugs In Shops Improves Uptake Reporting the findings of a cluster randomized trial carried out in rural Kenya, Beth Kangwana and colleagues find that provision of packs of the malaria therapy artemether-lumefantrine in shops at a subsidized price more than doubled the proportion of children with fever who received drugs promptly.	31 May 2011

IT / Internet / E-mail News
Affymetrix Selects BioDiscovery As OncoScan™ FFPE Express Preferred Software Provider Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) today announced a co-marketing agreement naming BioDiscovery, Inc. its preferred software provider for Affymetrix OncoScan™ FFPE Express Service data analysis.	31 May 2011
Human Health At Risk From 'E-Waste Pollution' In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress - precursors to cardiovascular disease, DNA damage and possibly cancer.	31 May 2011
The Convergence Of Plant Biology And Computational Wizardry Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment. Unfortunately, they are facing a new and difficult challenge ahead.Ever since the Industrial Revolution, their environment has become more unpredictable and more extreme, at the same time as the world's population is growing.	31 May 2011
SMS Support Improves Breastfeeding Rates, Australia New mums are four times more likely to stop breastfeeding after eight weeks, than mothers who have received text message support, according to a world first study by Queensland University of Technology (QUT).	31 May 2011
Elekta To Feature Certified MOSAIQ EHR At Electronic Health Records Lab During The 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting For the fifth straight year, Elekta has been selected to demonstrate at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Lab, June 4-6, at McCormick Place in Chicago.	31 May 2011

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Obesity Greater Risk For Fatty Liver Than Moderate Amounts Of Alcohol Being overweight and resistant to insulin constitute a greater risk for fatty liver than was previously thought, according to a study from Linköping University in Sweden that is now being published in the journal Annals of Medicine.	31 May 2011

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Gene Test Predicts Leukaemia Survival Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) have found that a genetic test can be used to identify patients with the most common type of adult leukaemia who will not respond well to currently available drugs and should instead be considered for experimental treatments.	31 May 2011
Millennium And Seattle Genetics Announce Brentuximab Vedotin (SGN-35) Presentations At 16th Congress Of The European Hematology Association Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company and Seattle Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SGEN) today announced that an oral presentation and a poster presentation featuring brentuximab vedotin (SGN-35) will be presented at the 16th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) being held from June 9-12, 2011, in London.	31 May 2011

Medical Devices / Diagnostics News
NICE Draft Guidance On X-ray Imaging System Published For Consultation Draft guidance from the new NICE Diagnostics Assessment Programme on a 2D/3D x-ray imaging system is issued today for consultation. The provisional recommendations, the first to be published under the new programme, do not support the routine use of the EOS 2D/3D X-ray imaging system in the NHS.	31 May 2011
Reliable Diagnosis Of Bladder Dysfunction Using Non-Invasive Wireless Near-Infrared Device A cell phone-sized, wireless near-infrared device is as reliable as the current "gold standard" invasive tests in determining bladder disease, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI).	31 May 2011
Radiometer's AQT90 FLEX Helps Rule Out VTE Radiometer's AQT90 FLEX is a compact and cost-effective point of care immunoassay analyser offering rapid turnaround times for determination of critical biomarkers, such as D-dimer, and provides a valuable diagnostic tool for ruling out venous thromboembolism (VTE).	31 May 2011
MEDMIX Systems AG Announces Bone Graft Delivery System MEDMIX Systems AG has developed a range of syringes for the preparation of bone graft, autograft, allograft or synthetic variants thereof. The new product line will be featured at 12th EFORT Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, organized by the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopeaedics and Traumatology.	31 May 2011
Bruker Launches Novel D8 QUEST And D8 VENTURE High Performance X-Ray Crystallography Systems With Next-Generation Large Area CMOS Detectors This Memorial Day weekend at the 2011 Annual ACA Meeting, Bruker will launch a new series of high-performance X-ray crystallography systems, including the D8 QUEST™ and the D8 VENTURE™.	31 May 2011
Augurex Reports Positive Data For RA Blood Test And Drug Target At The Annual European Congress Of Rheumatology (EULAR) Augurex Life Sciences Corp. reported that in London at the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Conference, leading arthritis researchers presented important data on Augurex's rheumatoid arthritis (RA) biomarker blood test and novel drug target.	31 May 2011

Medical Practice Management News

With A Hot Summer In Prospect, MDU Warns GPs To Be Vigilant For Malignant Melanomas, UK With spring 2011 set to be one of the driest on record and warnings that the UK will have a heat-wave summer, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued advice to GPs to help avoid the pitfalls of treating skin lesions, after revealing that it has been notified of 134 cases involving patients with malignant melanoma in the last five years.

31 May 2011

Melanoma / Skin Cancer News
UK Advice On Sun Creams "not In The Interests Of Public Health," Warns DTB The strength of sun cream recently recommended by the National Institutefor Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to stave off sunburn is far toolow and "not in the interests of public health," warns the Drug andTherapeutics Bulletin (DTB).	31 May 2011
With A Hot Summer In Prospect, MDU Warns GPs To Be Vigilant For Malignant Melanomas, UK With spring 2011 set to be one of the driest on record and warnings that the UK will have a heat-wave summer, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued advice to GPs to help avoid the pitfalls of treating skin lesions, after revealing that it has been notified of 134 cases involving patients with malignant melanoma in the last five years.	31 May 2011
Veridex Launches CELLTRACKS® Circulating Melanoma Cell Kit For Research Use Veridex, LLC announced the launch of the CELLTRACKS® Circulating Melanoma Cell (CMC) kit, providing research scientists with a fast, convenient and reliable way to capture CMCs for research studies.	31 May 2011
Signal Genetics Announces Commercialization Partnership With NeoGenomics Laboratories For Multiple Myeloma Gene Expression Test Signal Genetics, the parent company of Myeloma Health LLC and Respira Health LLC, a privately held predictive genetic testing company focused on oncology, announced a new agreement under which NeoGenomics Laboratories will offer Signal Genetics' new gene expression profile test for Multiple Myeloma (MyPRS™) to pathologists and hospital-based hematologists/oncologists nationwide.	31 May 2011

Men's health News
Feeling "In Control" Tied To Lower Risk Of Depression Among African American Men African American men who feel "in control" of their lives are less likely to suffer from depressive symptoms, according to a study published recently in the journal Research on Social Work Practice.	31 May 2011

Menopause News
New Study: Migraine After Menopause Is Predictable The prognosis for a reduction in migraine attacks after menopause improves if there had been a strong relationship between headache and menses during a woman's fertility years. This and related conclusions are part of a new study presented today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011

Mental Health News
Mental Health Heart Link Already Established, Says Charity New research has suggested people with significant mental illness may not be receiving the care they need after a heart attack. Researchers from the University of Leicester compared the care given to those with and without serious mental disorders and found the number of mentally ill people who died of acute coronary events, like a heart attack, was higher than expected.	31 May 2011
PTSD May Be Linked To Heart Disease Risk And Premature Death Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are likely to have a higher chance of developing heart disease and to die prematurely, US researchers reported in the American Journal of Cardiology.	31 May 2011
Feeling "In Control" Tied To Lower Risk Of Depression Among African American Men African American men who feel "in control" of their lives are less likely to suffer from depressive symptoms, according to a study published recently in the journal Research on Social Work Practice.	31 May 2011

MRI / PET / Ultrasound News
NICE Draft Guidance On X-ray Imaging System Published For Consultation Draft guidance from the new NICE Diagnostics Assessment Programme on a 2D/3D x-ray imaging system is issued today for consultation. The provisional recommendations, the first to be published under the new programme, do not support the routine use of the EOS 2D/3D X-ray imaging system in the NHS.	31 May 2011
Autism: New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011
New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Of Autism Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011

MRSA / Drug Resistance News
Unexpected Help From Cystic Fibrosis Bacteria - Antibiotic Resistance A bacteria which infects people with cystic fibrosis could help combat other antibiotic-resistant microbes, according to a team from Cardiff and Warwick Universities.Continuous use of existing antibiotics means that resistant bacteria are now causing major health problems all over the world.	31 May 2011

Multiple Sclerosis News
New Biomarkers Allow For Better Diagnosis, Prognosis And Response-to-Treatment Evaluation In Multiple Sclerosis And Related Disorders Biomarkers - surrogates which can be objectively measured and used as indicators for certain biological states, salutogenetic or pathogenetic processes or responses to pharmacological treatments - are of increasing importance in many areas of modern medicine, but especially so in neuroscience.	31 May 2011
People With MS Caught In Medicare "Donut Hole" Finding Critical Relief Under Affordable Care Act In Their Costs For Prescription Medications As the average cost of MS in the United States is nearly $70,000 a year, with the overall annual economic cost of MS being an estimated $28 billion, people living with MS face high out-of-pocket costs even when covered by health insurance.	31 May 2011
Can Stress Increase The Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis? Contrary to earlier reports, a new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The research is published in the May 31, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.	31 May 2011

Neurology / Neuroscience News
Cellphones Possibly Linked To Cancer Risk In Humans, World Health Organization Cellphones have been classed in category 2B - possibly carcinogenic to humans - by the cancer arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), after an international panel of experts evaluated hundreds of scientific articles.	31 May 2011
New Study: What's Bad For One's Heart Is Bad For One's Brain - Early Alzheimer Related To Risk Factors Such As Hypertension Or Smoking What factors increase the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease at a relatively early age? A new Brazilian study attempts to answer that question by looking at the influence that schooling and cardiovascular risk factors might have on the age of onset of the illness.	31 May 2011
Homo Or Hetero? The Neurobiological Dimension Of Sexual Orientation "Sexual orientation is not a matter of choice, it is primarily neurobiological at birth", Dr. Jerome Goldstein, Director of the San Francisco Clinical Research Center (USA) stressed today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
Parkinson's Disease: Improved Motor Performance Through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation A promising way to improve the situation of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) seems to be available: a group of Israeli researchers treated PD patients with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the purposes of a study.	31 May 2011
New Study: Helicobacter Pylori Infection Increases Severity And Frequency Of Migraine Helicobacter pylori infections are commonly linked to symptoms such as nausea and abdominal pain. Now, a group of Iranian researchers from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Islamic Azad University, Najafabd Branch, showed that Helicobacter pylori infections can affect one's head as well as stomach.	31 May 2011
New Study: Alcohol Harms The Brain Immediately A nice drink cannot do any harm? Brain says no. A new study by a Chinese research group shows that even low doses of alcohol can harm the brain immediately though not permanently. "We were investigating the acute effects of low and high doses of alcohol by diffusion tensor imaging, wondering whether the consequences of alcohol administration can be observed by the measurement of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA)", said Dr.	31 May 2011
Coma Science: New Terminology And Assessment Tools To Prevent Patients From Neglect And Devaluation - Deciphering The Neuronal Code Of Consciousness Patients with severely damaged brains who open and close their eyes but seemingly do not react to any input from the outer world have hitherto been described as being in a "persistent vegetative state" (PVS), a term suggesting irreversibility and cortical death, a state that is no longer human.	31 May 2011
Experts Call For Increased Funding Of Stroke Research: Promising New Insights Need Further Study For More Applicable Therapies Cerebral stroke is one of the most frequent causes of death and life-long disability worldwide, hugely burdening affected families and healthcare systems. "In the last decade, breathtaking advances have been made in understanding, among other aspects, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of such events," Prof.	31 May 2011
New Biomarkers Allow For Better Diagnosis, Prognosis And Response-to-Treatment Evaluation In Multiple Sclerosis And Related Disorders Biomarkers - surrogates which can be objectively measured and used as indicators for certain biological states, salutogenetic or pathogenetic processes or responses to pharmacological treatments - are of increasing importance in many areas of modern medicine, but especially so in neuroscience.	31 May 2011
Neurodegeneration From Noncoding RNA May Promote Alzheimer's Disease Researchers pinpoint a small RNA that spurs cells to manufacture a particular splice variant of a key neuronal protein, potentially promoting Alzheimer's disease (AD) or other types of neurodegeneration.	31 May 2011
Can Stress Increase The Risk Of Multiple Sclerosis? Contrary to earlier reports, a new study finds that stress does not appear to increase a person's risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS). The research is published in the May 31, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.	31 May 2011

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Extra Weight Equaled Better Health-related Quality Of Life For Blacks, But Worse Quality Of Life For Women A survey of nearly 4,000 Americans finds that obese women reported significantly worse health than obese men. Blacks who were overweight also reported better health than blacks in the normal or obese weight categories.	31 May 2011
Shorter Wait Times For Weight-Loss Surgery In Private Clinics But Quality Of Patient Care May Be Suffering Private health clinics across Canada providing weight-loss surgeries are offering much shorter wait times but at a hefty cost and at the expense of quality patient care, according to a new study led by St.	31 May 2011
Obesity Greater Risk For Fatty Liver Than Moderate Amounts Of Alcohol Being overweight and resistant to insulin constitute a greater risk for fatty liver than was previously thought, according to a study from Linköping University in Sweden that is now being published in the journal Annals of Medicine.	31 May 2011

Ovarian Cancer News
Hope For Ovarian Cancer Patients With The Help Of Targeted Testing Women with ovarian cancer could be helped by a new test that identifies the specific type of tumour they have, a conference will hear this week.Researchers at the University of Edinburgh hope this improved diagnosis will help doctors to personalise treatment programmes so that patients receive the most effective drugs.	31 May 2011

Pain / Anesthetics News
Study Finds Very Low Risk Of Anesthesia-Related Death In Healthy Children A large study at an Australian children's hospital suggests that there's little or no risk of death related to anesthesia in healthy children, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).	31 May 2011

Pancreatic Cancer News

Vitamin E Tocotrienol Shows Increased Cancer Cell Apoptosis Without Toxicity In Phase 1 Pancreatic Cancer Trial Davos Life Science (DavosLife) has announced preliminary results of a phase I clinical trial of its Natural e3 delta-tocotrienol (Natural e3) in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer. Tocotrienols are highly potent members of the Vitamin E family that have been found by researchers to inhibit the growth and survival of various types of cancer cells.

31 May 2011

Parkinson's Disease News
Similarities Cause Protein Misfolding A large number of illnesses stem from misfolded proteins, molecules composed of amino acids. Researchers at the University of Zurich have now studied protein misfolding using a special spectroscopic technique.	31 May 2011
Parkinson's Disease: Improved Motor Performance Through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation A promising way to improve the situation of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) seems to be available: a group of Israeli researchers treated PD patients with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the purposes of a study.	31 May 2011

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Study Finds Very Low Risk Of Anesthesia-Related Death In Healthy Children A large study at an Australian children's hospital suggests that there's little or no risk of death related to anesthesia in healthy children, reports the June issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).	31 May 2011
Preventing Early Labour And Protecting Premature Babies From Brain Damage, UK Researchers are investigating a possible new treatment which could stop women from going into labour too soon and protect their vulnerable babies from brain damage, thanks to a grant from children's charity Action Medical Research.	31 May 2011
Reliable Diagnosis Of Bladder Dysfunction Using Non-Invasive Wireless Near-Infrared Device A cell phone-sized, wireless near-infrared device is as reliable as the current "gold standard" invasive tests in determining bladder disease, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI).	31 May 2011
SMS Support Improves Breastfeeding Rates, Australia New mums are four times more likely to stop breastfeeding after eight weeks, than mothers who have received text message support, according to a world first study by Queensland University of Technology (QUT).	31 May 2011
Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children To Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease Dutch researchers have developed a test which predicts which mothers at risk of passing on mitochondrial genetic disease to their children are likely to have a healthy baby.Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics today (Monday).	31 May 2011

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News
AstraZeneca And Heptares Collaborate To Investigate Important GPCR Drug Targets AstraZeneca and Heptares Therapeutics today announced they have entered a four-year collaboration focused on the potential discovery and development of new medicines targeting G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs).	31 May 2011
SMi Group Announce ADMET: Translating Research Into Clinical Outcomes Conference, 6th & 7th July 2011, London SMi Group presents ADMET: Translating Research into Clinical Outcomes conference, to be held on 6 & 7 July 2011 in London. It will address in vivo, in silico & in vitro ADMET case studies in examples showcased by a renowned line up of speakers.	31 May 2011
SMi Group Announce Pharmaceutical And Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific Conference, 18th & 19th July 2011 SMi Group is delighted to announce their Pharmaceutical and Clinical Trial Logistics Asia Pacific conference. Taking place on the 18th & 19th July in Singapore, this event will discuss best strategies in achieving reliable and cost-effective supply chain and logistics systems currently being developed in the APAC region.	31 May 2011
Changing The Indian Culture In Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are the sixth global leading cause of death among hospitalised patients and the incidence of serious ADRs in hospitalised patients is 6.7 per cent (Joshi et al).	31 May 2011
Radius, 3M Drug Delivery Systems Sign Development Agreement For Transdermal Delivery Of BA058 For Treatment Of Osteoporosis Radius Health, Inc. ("Radius") and 3M Drug Delivery Systems ("3M") announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of a transdermal delivery option of BA058, Radius' novel, proprietary PTHrP (parathyroid hormone-related protein) analog, for the treatment of osteoporosis.	31 May 2011

Pharmacy / Pharmacist News
Changing The Indian Culture In Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are the sixth global leading cause of death among hospitalised patients and the incidence of serious ADRs in hospitalised patients is 6.7 per cent (Joshi et al).	31 May 2011
People With MS Caught In Medicare "Donut Hole" Finding Critical Relief Under Affordable Care Act In Their Costs For Prescription Medications As the average cost of MS in the United States is nearly $70,000 a year, with the overall annual economic cost of MS being an estimated $28 billion, people living with MS face high out-of-pocket costs even when covered by health insurance.	31 May 2011

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Preventing Early Labour And Protecting Premature Babies From Brain Damage, UK Researchers are investigating a possible new treatment which could stop women from going into labour too soon and protect their vulnerable babies from brain damage, thanks to a grant from children's charity Action Medical Research.	31 May 2011
Sleep Disorders: New Therapy For Restless Legs In Pregnant Women - Negative Effects On Stroke Outcome "Restless leg syndrome (RLS), one of the most common and bothering sleeping disorders, is about twice as common in pregnant women than in the overall population, but it seems we now can offer many sufferers a simple and very effective therapy," Prof.	31 May 2011
For Women Carrying Mitochondrial DNA Disease, PGD Can Permit The Birth Of Healthy Children Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) can give women at risk of passing on a mitochondrial DNA disorder to their offspring a good chance of being able to give birth to an unaffected child, a researcher told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics yesterday (Monday).	31 May 2011
Link Between Influenza Vaccination In Pregnancy And Reduced Risk Of Premature Birth A study published in this week's PLoS Medicine suggests that there might be an association between maternal immunization with inactivated influenza vaccine during pregnancy and reduced likelihood of prematurity and the baby being small for gestational age.	31 May 2011

Preventive Medicine News
IOF Position Paper On Breaking The Fracture Cycle Through Effective And Coordinated Models Of Care A prior fracture at least doubles a patient's future fracture risk - yet numerous studies from across the world have found that healthcare systems fail to respond to the first fracture to prevent future fractures.	31 May 2011
New Advances In Lipid Genetics Lead To Better Detection And Prevention Of Major Diseases Researchers from the US and The Netherlands have found ways to earlier and better prediction of diseases such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and heart disease through studying the genetic make-up of different varieties of lipids in blood plasma.	31 May 2011

Primary Care / General Practice News

With A Hot Summer In Prospect, MDU Warns GPs To Be Vigilant For Malignant Melanomas, UK With spring 2011 set to be one of the driest on record and warnings that the UK will have a heat-wave summer, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued advice to GPs to help avoid the pitfalls of treating skin lesions, after revealing that it has been notified of 134 cases involving patients with malignant melanoma in the last five years.

31 May 2011

Prostate / Prostate Cancer News

Pivotal Phase 3 Study Published In The New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) Finds Overall Survival Of Patients With Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo.

31 May 2011

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Mental Health Heart Link Already Established, Says Charity New research has suggested people with significant mental illness may not be receiving the care they need after a heart attack. Researchers from the University of Leicester compared the care given to those with and without serious mental disorders and found the number of mentally ill people who died of acute coronary events, like a heart attack, was higher than expected.	31 May 2011
Shorter Wait Times For Weight-Loss Surgery In Private Clinics But Quality Of Patient Care May Be Suffering Private health clinics across Canada providing weight-loss surgeries are offering much shorter wait times but at a hefty cost and at the expense of quality patient care, according to a new study led by St.	31 May 2011
PTSD May Be Linked To Heart Disease Risk And Premature Death Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are likely to have a higher chance of developing heart disease and to die prematurely, US researchers reported in the American Journal of Cardiology.	31 May 2011
Autism: New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011
How Beliefs On Global Warming Are Mistakenly Influenced By Daily Temperature A study by Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School, Ye Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Decision Sciences, and Lisa Zaval, a Columbia graduate student in psychology, found that those who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold.	31 May 2011

Public Health News
HHS Announces Proposed Changes To HIPAA Privacy Rule A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the accounting of disclosures requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) Act Privacy Rule, is available for public comment.	31 May 2011
Online Tool To Search The Web For Dengue Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world.	31 May 2011
Roche Applied Science And TIB Molbiol Offer Assay Solution For Rapid EHEC Identification With the recent outbreak in Europe of Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), Roche Applied Science (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and TIB Molbiol are providing scientists with complementary technologies that can be used for the rapid identification and detection of EHEC.	31 May 2011
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Tests Neither Accurate In Their Predictions Nor Beneficial To Individuals Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests give inaccurate predictions of disease risks and many European geneticists believe that some of them should be banned, the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics will hear today (Tuesday).	31 May 2011
How Beliefs On Global Warming Are Mistakenly Influenced By Daily Temperature A study by Columbia Business School Professor Eric Johnson, co-director of the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia Business School, Ye Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Decision Sciences, and Lisa Zaval, a Columbia graduate student in psychology, found that those who thought the current day was warmer than usual were more likely to believe in and feel concern about global warming than those who thought the day was unusually cold.	31 May 2011
Medical Experts Make A Case For Broader Use Of Compassionate Release In The Nation's Prison System In an article published today in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians (ACP), authors suggest broader use of compassionate release in the nation's prison system.	31 May 2011

Radiology / Nuclear Medicine News
NICE Draft Guidance On X-ray Imaging System Published For Consultation Draft guidance from the new NICE Diagnostics Assessment Programme on a 2D/3D x-ray imaging system is issued today for consultation. The provisional recommendations, the first to be published under the new programme, do not support the routine use of the EOS 2D/3D X-ray imaging system in the NHS.	31 May 2011
Bruker Launches Novel D8 QUEST And D8 VENTURE High Performance X-Ray Crystallography Systems With Next-Generation Large Area CMOS Detectors This Memorial Day weekend at the 2011 Annual ACA Meeting, Bruker will launch a new series of high-performance X-ray crystallography systems, including the D8 QUEST™ and the D8 VENTURE™.	31 May 2011
New Research May Lead To Improved Diagnosis Of Autism Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) may provide an early and objective indicator of autism, according to researchers at Columbia University in New York City, who used the technique to document language impairment in autistic children.	31 May 2011

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News

AIBioTech Working With FDA To Ensure New Genetic Test Remains Available To Consumers American International Biotechnology Services (AIBioTech) announced it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to keep its Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers. The test panel screens athletes and young sports competitors for undiagnosed risk factors and athletic strengths to make awareness of potential health conditions more precise and workouts more effective.

31 May 2011

Respiratory / Asthma News
Human Health At Risk From 'E-Waste Pollution' In addition to its damaging effect on the environment and its illegal smuggling into developing countries, researchers have now linked e-waste to adverse effects on human health, such as inflammation and oxidative stress - precursors to cardiovascular disease, DNA damage and possibly cancer.	31 May 2011
Asthma Death Data Prompts Winter Alert, Australia People with asthma are being urged to take their condition seriously this winter as new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlights concerning levels of asthma-related deaths. The latest Australian asthma death toll recorded 411 deaths in 2009 - 131 males and 280 females.	31 May 2011
Early Use Of Corticosteroids Speeds Recovery From Community-Acquired Pneumonia The addition of corticosteroids to antibiotics might reduce disease severity and help patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) recover more quickly than treatment with antibiotics alone.	31 May 2011

Restless Legs Syndrome News
Sleep Disorders: New Therapy For Restless Legs In Pregnant Women - Negative Effects On Stroke Outcome "Restless leg syndrome (RLS), one of the most common and bothering sleeping disorders, is about twice as common in pregnant women than in the overall population, but it seems we now can offer many sufferers a simple and very effective therapy," Prof.	31 May 2011

Sexual Health / STDs News
Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone.	31 May 2011
Elements Behavioral Health Assembles Expert Panel To Address Men In Power And Evolving Hypersexuality Diagnosis While stories of "men in power behaving badly" continue to dominate headlines, and the professional psychiatric community debates over whether "hypersexual disorder" should be included in the DSM-5, Elements Behavioral Health has assembled a group of experts to address common misconceptions and educate major constituent groups.	31 May 2011

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
Mouse Virus Erroneously Linked To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, UCSF Collaborative Study Finds Two years ago, a widely publicized scientific report plucked an old mouse virus out of obscurity and held it up as a possible cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. According to a new study published today, May 31st, by a group of researchers in California, Wisconsin and Illinois, that report was wrong.	31 May 2011
Sleep Disorders: New Therapy For Restless Legs In Pregnant Women - Negative Effects On Stroke Outcome "Restless leg syndrome (RLS), one of the most common and bothering sleeping disorders, is about twice as common in pregnant women than in the overall population, but it seems we now can offer many sufferers a simple and very effective therapy," Prof.	31 May 2011

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Statement From Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH On World No Tobacco Day, May 31, 2011 Tobacco use, the major preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide, represents a public health catastrophe. Globally, tobacco use is projected to cause a billion deaths in this century.	31 May 2011
EU Urged To Adopt Plain Packaging On Tobacco On World No Tobacco Day today (Tuesday) Cancer Research UK has renewed its call for the European Union (EU) to adopt standardised, plain packaging with graphic pictures of health warnings on all tobacco products.	31 May 2011
Cancer Council Commends Opposition Support For Plain Tobacco Packaging, Australia The federal Opposition should be commended for supporting the Government's proposal to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products sold in Australia from July next year, Cancer Council Australia said today.	31 May 2011
Political Parties Must Quit Donations From Big Tobacco Companies, Australia The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has urged political parties to stop the practice of accepting donations from tobacco companies.The call from the ANF today follows revelations that the Liberal and National parties have received donations from British American Tobacco (BAT).	31 May 2011
World No Tobacco Day 2011 - Tobacco Marketing Is 'Out Of Fashion', Australia On World No Tobacco Day, the AMA is putting its full support behind Government efforts to stop the tobacco industry using clever and fashionable marketing and advertising techniques to promote the killer smoking habit in the community, especially to young people.	31 May 2011

Sports Medicine / Fitness News

AIBioTech Working With FDA To Ensure New Genetic Test Remains Available To Consumers American International Biotechnology Services (AIBioTech) announced it is working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to keep its Sports X Factor genetic test available to consumers. The test panel screens athletes and young sports competitors for undiagnosed risk factors and athletic strengths to make awareness of potential health conditions more precise and workouts more effective.

31 May 2011

Stroke News
Niacin Does Not Reduce Stroke Or Heart Attack Risk, Trial Ended 18 Months Early Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, vitamin B3 or vitamin PP does not protect patients with vascular and heart disease from stroke or heart attack. A clinical trial which compared combination niacin with a statin versus statins alone had to be ended 18 months early, according to Abbot Laboratories and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.	31 May 2011
New Study: Post-Stroke Depression Underestimated And Undertreated "Depression and anxiety are common after stroke, affecting one third of stroke survivors. Depression often goes unrecognized and untreated," explained Dr. Jennifer H. White (University of Newcastle, Australia), presenting a new study on post-stroke depression and anxiety today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
Experts Call For Increased Funding Of Stroke Research: Promising New Insights Need Further Study For More Applicable Therapies Cerebral stroke is one of the most frequent causes of death and life-long disability worldwide, hugely burdening affected families and healthcare systems. "In the last decade, breathtaking advances have been made in understanding, among other aspects, the molecular and cellular mechanisms of such events," Prof.	31 May 2011

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Study Finds No Association Between Having Organ Transplant Surgery At Nighttime And Poorer Survival After One Year An analysis of data on heart and lung transplant recipients indicates that patients who had transplant surgery performed at nighttime did not have a significantly different rate of survival up to one year after organ transplantation, according to a study in the June 1 issue of JAMA.	31 May 2011

Tropical Diseases News
Online Tool To Search The Web For Dengue Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Google.org have found web-based search data to be a viable source of information for early detection and monitoring of outbreaks of dengue, an emerging mosquito-borne virus found in tropical areas of the world.	31 May 2011
Potential Drug Target For Future Malaria And Anti-Cancer Treatments Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell 'motor'.	31 May 2011
Provision Of Subsidized Malaria Drugs In Shops Improves Uptake Reporting the findings of a cluster randomized trial carried out in rural Kenya, Beth Kangwana and colleagues find that provision of packs of the malaria therapy artemether-lumefantrine in shops at a subsidized price more than doubled the proportion of children with fever who received drugs promptly.	31 May 2011

Urology / Nephrology News
HbA1C Test For Glucose Monitoring Poorly Predictive In Dialysis Patients The gold standard long-term glucose monitoring test for patients with diabetes proved to be of limited value in dialysis patients, according to a new study at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.	31 May 2011
Reliable Diagnosis Of Bladder Dysfunction Using Non-Invasive Wireless Near-Infrared Device A cell phone-sized, wireless near-infrared device is as reliable as the current "gold standard" invasive tests in determining bladder disease, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Coastal Health and the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI).	31 May 2011
Affymax And Takeda Announce The Submission Of A NDA For Peginesatide For The Treatment Of Anemia Associated With CRF In Patients On Dialysis Affymax, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFY) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE: 4502, "Takeda") today announced the submission of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the investigational agent peginesatide (formerly known as Hematide™) for the treatment of anemia associated with chronic renal failure (CRF) in adult patients on dialysis.	31 May 2011
Pivotal Phase 3 Study Published In The New England Journal Of Medicine (NEJM) Finds Overall Survival Of Patients With Prostate Cancer A study titled "Abiraterone and Increased Survival in Metastatic Prostate Cancer," published in the May 26 issue of NEJM, found that patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who have received prior chemotherapy containing docetaxel showed a significant improvement in overall survival when treated with ZYTIGA™ (abiraterone acetate) plus prednisone compared to patients treated with prednisone plus placebo.	31 May 2011

Vascular News
Radiometer's AQT90 FLEX Helps Rule Out VTE Radiometer's AQT90 FLEX is a compact and cost-effective point of care immunoassay analyser offering rapid turnaround times for determination of critical biomarkers, such as D-dimer, and provides a valuable diagnostic tool for ruling out venous thromboembolism (VTE).	31 May 2011
Risk Of Blood Clots In Veins Hereditary Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common type of cardiovascular disease after coronary heart disease and stroke. Researchers at the Centre for Primary Health Care Research in Malmö have mapped the significance of hereditary factors for venous thromboembolism in the entire Swedish population by studying the risk of VTE in children of parents with VTE compared with the children of parents who have not had VTE.	31 May 2011

Veterans / Ex-Servicemen News
PTSD May Be Linked To Heart Disease Risk And Premature Death Individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are likely to have a higher chance of developing heart disease and to die prematurely, US researchers reported in the American Journal of Cardiology.	31 May 2011

Water - Air Quality / Agriculture News
Global CO2 Emissions Reach Record High Energy-related CO2 emissions reached a record high in 2010, raising doubts that agreed limits on global warming will be achieved by 2020, according to the Paris-based international energy watchdog, the IEA.	31 May 2011
The Convergence Of Plant Biology And Computational Wizardry Over time, plants have evolved to adapt to a constantly changing, often hostile, environment. Unfortunately, they are facing a new and difficult challenge ahead.Ever since the Industrial Revolution, their environment has become more unpredictable and more extreme, at the same time as the world's population is growing.	31 May 2011

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Do Birth Control Pills Containing Drospirenone Raise Blood Clot Risk? FDA Orders Safety Review The FDA informs that new data regarding birth control pills containing drospirenone are being evaluated to determine what the risk of blood clots is. Drospirenone is a synthetic progestin - a female sex hormone.	31 May 2011
New Study: Migraine After Menopause Is Predictable The prognosis for a reduction in migraine attacks after menopause improves if there had been a strong relationship between headache and menses during a woman's fertility years. This and related conclusions are part of a new study presented today at the 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) in Lisbon.	31 May 2011
New Breast Screening Guidelines Leave 80% Of Women Uneasy Over four-fifths of women feel uneasy about being told that routine breast cancer screening for the under 50s is not obligatory. Guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 upped the minimum age from which women should routinely be screened for breast cancer from 40 to 50 years, and also said that screening should occur every two years up to the age of 74.	31 May 2011
Society Of Gynecologic Oncology Sets New Standards To Monitor Recurrence Of Gynecologic Cancer More Effectively Although gynecologic cancers account for only 10 percent of all new cancer cases in women, these cancers account for 20 percent of all female cancer survivors. Because long-term survival is now more common, it is increasingly important to detect recurrence.	31 May 2011

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