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ADHD News
Adderall Shortage Set To Continue Adderall is a stimulant used to treat ADHD, but it's also a controlled substance due to the addictive qualities of the drug. The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) monitors and controls how much of the base ingredients to manufacture the drug can be distributed to pharmaceutical companies.	03 Jan 2012
Risk Of ADHD In Children Increased By Gestational Diabetes And Low Socioeconomic Status In the first study of its kind, researchers at Queens College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that low socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal gestational diabetes together may cause a 14-fold increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in six year olds.	03 Jan 2012

Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs News
Need For Action On Health In The Aftermath Of War Highlighted By New Report Countries recovering from war are at risk of being left to their own devices in tackling non communicable diseases, leaving an "open door" for exploitation by alcohol, tobacco and food companies, health experts warn.	03 Jan 2012
More Than Other Drugs, Injected Meth Is Associated With An Increased Risk Of Attempted Suicide The dire physical and mental health effects of injecting methamphetamine are well known, but there's been little research about suicidal behavior and injecting meth. In a recent study, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the University of British Columbia found that drug users who inject methamphetamine had an 80% greater risk of attempting suicide than drug users who inject other substances.	03 Jan 2012

Alzheimer's / Dementia News
Dementia and Alzheimer's Risk In Females - Another Possible Risk Factor Found According to a study published Online First by the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, a hormone derived from visceral fat called adiponectin may play a role as a risk factor for development of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) in women.	03 Jan 2012
Psychiatric Drugs Overused In Nursing Homes - Authorities Concerned According to government inspectors from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), strong psychiatric medications are often prescribed to individuals with dementia in nursing homes, but for off-label reasons.	03 Jan 2012

Biology / Biochemistry News
New Treatment Direction For Rare Metabolic Diseases A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a key interaction at the heart of a promising new treatment for a rare childhood metabolic disorder known as Fabry disease.	03 Jan 2012
Pitt/Children's Hospital Team: Cell Membrane Proteins Could Provide Targets For Broader Vaccines Vaccines with broader reach might be made by stimulating specialized immune cells to recognize foreign cell membrane proteins that are shared across bacterial species, say researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a report published online today in Immunity.	03 Jan 2012

Bipolar News
Improvements In Unipolar And Bipolar Depression Following Deep Brain Stimulation A new study shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a safe and effective intervention for treatment-resistant depression in patients with either unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar ll disorder (BP).	03 Jan 2012

Bird Flu / Avian Flu News
Shenzhen Man Dies Of Bird Flu The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) received notification from the Ministry of Health (MoH) on the 30th December concerning a suspected human case of influenza A (H5N1) in Shenzhen.	03 Jan 2012

Bones / Orthopedics News
A Firmer Understanding Of Muscle Fibrosis In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Researchers describe how increased production of a microRNA promotes progressive muscle deterioration in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a study published online on January 2 in the Journal of Cell Biology*.	03 Jan 2012
NIH Researchers Uncover Clues Related To Metal-On-Metal Hip Implants A new study, bringing together an interdisciplinary team of physicians and engineers from the United States and Germany, made a surprising finding about implants used in hip replacement surgery: Graphite carbon is a key element in the lubricating layer that forms on metal-on-metal hip implants.	03 Jan 2012

Cancer / Oncology News
Two Recent Studies Distinguish Kidney Cancer Subtypes And Provide Promising New Drug Targets Two recent studies by Van Andel Research Institute scientists are providing a foundation for a more complete understanding of distinct kidney cancer subtypes, which could pave the way for better treatments.	03 Jan 2012
Mechanism Explains How Hepatitis C Virus Survives In The Liver And How A New Antiviral Works Viral diseases are still one of the biggest challenges to medical science. Thanks to thousands of years of co-evolution with humans, their ability to harness the biology of their human hosts to survive and thrive makes them very difficult to target with medical treatment.	03 Jan 2012
Previously Unconnected Molecular Networks Conspire To Promote Cancer An inflammation-promoting protein triggers deactivation of a tumor-suppressor that usually blocks cancer formation via the NOTCH signaling pathway, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports today in Molecular Cell.	03 Jan 2012
Enzyme That Flips Switch On Cells' Sugar Cravings Could Be Anti-Cancer Target Cancer cells tend to take up more glucose than healthy cells, and researchers are increasingly interested in exploiting this tendency with drugs that target cancer cells' altered metabolism.Cancer cells' sugar cravings arise partly because they turn off their mitochondria, power sources that burn glucose efficiently, in favor of a more inefficient mode of using glucose.	03 Jan 2012

Depression News
Improvements In Unipolar And Bipolar Depression Following Deep Brain Stimulation A new study shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a safe and effective intervention for treatment-resistant depression in patients with either unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar ll disorder (BP).	03 Jan 2012

Dermatology News
How Skin Is Wired For Touch Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, research reported in the December 23rd issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, provides the first picture of how specialized neurons feel light touches, like a brush of movement or a vibration, are organized in hairy skin.	03 Jan 2012

Diabetes News
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Jan. 3, 2012 1. Sixth Edition of American College of Physicians Ethics Manual Addresses New Topics and Expands on Recurrent Issues The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual.	03 Jan 2012
Risk Of ADHD In Children Increased By Gestational Diabetes And Low Socioeconomic Status In the first study of its kind, researchers at Queens College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that low socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal gestational diabetes together may cause a 14-fold increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in six year olds.	03 Jan 2012
Young Diabetics Struggle To Get Good Night's Sleep, Health, Behavior Problems Ensue New research finds that many young people with type 1 diabetes struggle to get a good night's sleep and this leads to increased health and behavior problems, such as poorer control of blood sugar and worsening of academic performance.	03 Jan 2012

Endocrinology News
New Treatment Direction For Rare Metabolic Diseases A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a key interaction at the heart of a promising new treatment for a rare childhood metabolic disorder known as Fabry disease.	03 Jan 2012

Eye Health / Blindness News
Latitude And Gender Influences Glaucoma Risk When it comes to whether or not you will develop exfoliation syndrome (ES) -- an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and increased risk of cataract as well as cataract surgery complications -- age, gender and where you live does matter.	03 Jan 2012

Flu / Cold / SARS News

Pitt Researchers Propose New Model To Design Better Flu Shots The flu shot, typically the first line of defense against seasonal influenza, could better treat the U.S. population, thanks to University of Pittsburgh researchers.New research that focuses on the composition and timing of the shot design was published in the September-October issue of Operations Research by Pitt Swanson School of Engineering faculty members Oleg Prokopyev, an assistant professor, and Professor Andrew Schaefer, both in the Department of Industrial Engineering, and coauthors Osman Ozaltin and Mark Roberts, professor and chair in Pitt's Department of Health Policy and Management.

03 Jan 2012

Genetics News
Arrhythmia Driven By TBX3 Gene Mutation Arrhythmia, a potentially life-threatening disorder whereby the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat causes it to beat too fast, slow or irregularly, affects millions of people worldwide. The rhythm and rate of the heart is regulated by the cardiac conduction system (CCS), a group of specialized cells in the walls of the heart that send electrical signals from the sinoatrial node in the heart's right atrium or upper chamber to the ventricles or lower chambers, causing them to contract and pump blood.	03 Jan 2012
Pancreatic Cancer Gene Identified According to data published in Cancer Discovery, the latest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the risk of inheriting pancreatic cancer may be increased by mutations in the ATM gene.	03 Jan 2012
Joint BioEnergy Institute Researchers Develop CAD-Type Tools For Engineering RNA Control Systems The computer assisted design (CAD) tools that made it possible to fabricate integrated circuits with millions of transistors may soon be coming to the biological sciences. Researchers at the U.	03 Jan 2012
Transcriptional Elongation Control Takes On New Dimensions As Stowers Researchers Find Gene Class-Specific Elongation Factors Life is complicated enough, so you can forgive the pioneers of DNA biology for glossing over transcriptional elongation control by RNA polymerase II, the quick and seemingly bulletproof penultimate step in the process that copies the information encoded in our DNA into protein-making instructions carried by messenger RNA.	03 Jan 2012
Gene Fusion In Lung Cancer Afflicting Never-Smokers May Be Target For Therapy Smoking is a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, but nearly 25% of all lung cancer patients have never smoked. In a study published online in Genome Research (http://www.genome.org), researchers have identified a previously unknown gene fusion event that could explain a significant proportion of lung cancer cases in never-smokers, and might serve as a target for new therapies.	03 Jan 2012
DNA Mismatch Repair Happens Only During A Brief Window Of Opportunity In eukaryotes - the group of organisms that include humans - a key to survival is the ability of certain proteins to quickly and accurately repair genetic errors that occur when DNA is replicated to make new cells.	03 Jan 2012
Defending The Genome Small, mobile sequences of DNA left over from viruses, called transposons or "jumping genes" because of their ability to move around the genome, pose a significant threat to the genetic integrity and stability of an organism.	03 Jan 2012

Heart Disease News

Arrhythmia Driven By TBX3 Gene Mutation Arrhythmia, a potentially life-threatening disorder whereby the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat causes it to beat too fast, slow or irregularly, affects millions of people worldwide. The rhythm and rate of the heart is regulated by the cardiac conduction system (CCS), a group of specialized cells in the walls of the heart that send electrical signals from the sinoatrial node in the heart's right atrium or upper chamber to the ventricles or lower chambers, causing them to contract and pump blood.

03 Jan 2012

HIV / AIDS News
Mechanism Explains How Hepatitis C Virus Survives In The Liver And How A New Antiviral Works Viral diseases are still one of the biggest challenges to medical science. Thanks to thousands of years of co-evolution with humans, their ability to harness the biology of their human hosts to survive and thrive makes them very difficult to target with medical treatment.	03 Jan 2012
UNC HIV Prevention Research Named Scientific Breakthrough Of The Year The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.	03 Jan 2012
Pathogenic Landscape Of HIV In perhaps the most comprehensive survey of the inner workings of HIV, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has mapped every apparent physical interaction the virus makes with components of the human cells it infects-work that may reveal new ways to design future HIV/AIDS drugs.	03 Jan 2012

Immune System / Vaccines News
FDA Greenlights Pneumonia Vaccine The FDA has approved Prevnar 13, for use on people over 50. Prevnar 13 is a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, that can prevent pneumonia and disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae.	03 Jan 2012
Pitt/Children's Hospital Team: Cell Membrane Proteins Could Provide Targets For Broader Vaccines Vaccines with broader reach might be made by stimulating specialized immune cells to recognize foreign cell membrane proteins that are shared across bacterial species, say researchers from Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a report published online today in Immunity.	03 Jan 2012
Researcher Contends Multiple Sclerosis Is Not A Disease Of The Immune System An article published Friday Dec. 23 in the December 2011 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that multiple sclerosis, long viewed as primarily an autoimmune disease, is not actually a disease of the immune system.	03 Jan 2012

Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses News
FDA Greenlights Pneumonia Vaccine The FDA has approved Prevnar 13, for use on people over 50. Prevnar 13 is a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, that can prevent pneumonia and disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae.	03 Jan 2012

IT / Internet / E-mail News
More Go Online For Health Enquiries - UK Novel figures from the NHS Choices and NHS Direct reveal that more individuals are using the internet for trusted advice and health information this winter. Compared to last year, daily visitors to the NHS Choices website increased by 56% between October to the end of December, even though flu levels are lower so far this year.	03 Jan 2012

Liver Disease / Hepatitis News
Mechanism Explains How Hepatitis C Virus Survives In The Liver And How A New Antiviral Works Viral diseases are still one of the biggest challenges to medical science. Thanks to thousands of years of co-evolution with humans, their ability to harness the biology of their human hosts to survive and thrive makes them very difficult to target with medical treatment.	03 Jan 2012

Lung Cancer News

Gene Fusion In Lung Cancer Afflicting Never-Smokers May Be Target For Therapy Smoking is a well-known risk factor for lung cancer, but nearly 25% of all lung cancer patients have never smoked. In a study published online in Genome Research (http://www.genome.org), researchers have identified a previously unknown gene fusion event that could explain a significant proportion of lung cancer cases in never-smokers, and might serve as a target for new therapies.

03 Jan 2012

Lymphology/Lymphedema News
New Treatment Direction For Rare Metabolic Diseases A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a key interaction at the heart of a promising new treatment for a rare childhood metabolic disorder known as Fabry disease.	03 Jan 2012

Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma News
Transcriptional Elongation Control Takes On New Dimensions As Stowers Researchers Find Gene Class-Specific Elongation Factors Life is complicated enough, so you can forgive the pioneers of DNA biology for glossing over transcriptional elongation control by RNA polymerase II, the quick and seemingly bulletproof penultimate step in the process that copies the information encoded in our DNA into protein-making instructions carried by messenger RNA.	03 Jan 2012
Fish Oil May Hold Key To Leukemia Cure A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells could lead to a cure for the disease, according to Penn State researchers. The compound -- delta-12-protaglandin J3, or D12-PGJ3 -- targeted and killed the stem cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, in mice, said Sandeep Prabhu, associate professor of immunology and molecular toxicology in the Department of Veterinary and Medical Sciences.	03 Jan 2012

Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP News
"It's The Economy" - Say Medicare Beneficiaries According to a survey, 45% of 337 retirees on Medicare consider the economy the most vital issue the United States faces in 2012, followed by health care (15%), national debt (21%), and jobs (19%).	03 Jan 2012

Mental Health News

More Than Other Drugs, Injected Meth Is Associated With An Increased Risk Of Attempted Suicide The dire physical and mental health effects of injecting methamphetamine are well known, but there's been little research about suicidal behavior and injecting meth. In a recent study, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the University of British Columbia found that drug users who inject methamphetamine had an 80% greater risk of attempting suicide than drug users who inject other substances.

03 Jan 2012

Multiple Sclerosis News
Researcher Contends Multiple Sclerosis Is Not A Disease Of The Immune System An article published Friday Dec. 23 in the December 2011 issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology argues that multiple sclerosis, long viewed as primarily an autoimmune disease, is not actually a disease of the immune system.	03 Jan 2012
UTHealth Researchers Link Multiple Sclerosis To Different Area Of Brain Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning apart from the disabling damage caused by the disease's visible lesions.	03 Jan 2012

Muscular Dystrophy / ALS News
A Firmer Understanding Of Muscle Fibrosis In Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Researchers describe how increased production of a microRNA promotes progressive muscle deterioration in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), according to a study published online on January 2 in the Journal of Cell Biology*.	03 Jan 2012

Neurology / Neuroscience News
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Jan. 3, 2012 1. Sixth Edition of American College of Physicians Ethics Manual Addresses New Topics and Expands on Recurrent Issues The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual.	03 Jan 2012
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Associated With Progressive Brain Changes Among Adolescents Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.	03 Jan 2012
Long Intervening Non-Coding RNAs Play Pivotal Roles In Brain Development Whitehead Institute scientists have identified conserved, long intervening non-coding RNAs (lincRNAs) that play key roles during embryonic brain development in zebrafish. They also show that the human versions of the lincRNAs can substitute for the zebrafish versions, which implies that the functions of these non-coding RNAs have been retained in humans as well as fish.	03 Jan 2012
UTHealth Researchers Link Multiple Sclerosis To Different Area Of Brain Radiology researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have found evidence that multiple sclerosis affects an area of the brain that controls cognitive, sensory and motor functioning apart from the disabling damage caused by the disease's visible lesions.	03 Jan 2012

Nutrition / Diet News
Calories Raise Body Fat When People Overeat, Not Protein In a study published in the January 4 issue of JAMA, researchers assessed 25 healthy individuals who were randomized to different levels of overconsumption on protein diets whilst living in a controlled setting.	03 Jan 2012
Baby Formula Safe - According to US Authorities The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as Centers for Disease Control (CDC) informed Mead Johnson Nutrition that health inspectors have finalized their examination on all formula samples obtained from the organization.	03 Jan 2012
Study Links Quality Of Mother-Toddler Relationship To Teen Obesity The quality of the emotional relationship between a mother and her young child could affect the potential for that child to be obese during adolescence, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed national data detailing relationship characteristics between mothers and their children during their toddler years.	03 Jan 2012

Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness News
Calories Raise Body Fat When People Overeat, Not Protein In a study published in the January 4 issue of JAMA, researchers assessed 25 healthy individuals who were randomized to different levels of overconsumption on protein diets whilst living in a controlled setting.	03 Jan 2012
Study Links Quality Of Mother-Toddler Relationship To Teen Obesity The quality of the emotional relationship between a mother and her young child could affect the potential for that child to be obese during adolescence, a new study suggests.Researchers analyzed national data detailing relationship characteristics between mothers and their children during their toddler years.	03 Jan 2012

Pain / Anesthetics News
New Guidelines For Managing Rare Anesthesia Complication At Ambulatory Surgical Centers As the number of surgical procedures performed outside hospitals continues to increase, ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) need to develop policies for managing malignant hyperthermia a rare but serious reaction to anesthetics, according to an expert panel report in the January issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS).	03 Jan 2012
FDA Approves Shared REMS (Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy) Program For All TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) Pain Treatments ProStrakan, Inc., a subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd. (KHK), and an international specialty pharmaceutical company, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) Access program.	03 Jan 2012
ONSOLIS To Benefit From Approval Of Class-Wide REMS For All Transmucosal Fentanyl Products BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) responded to the approval and announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) covering all transmucosal fentanyl products has been approved.	03 Jan 2012
FDA To Approve Shared System REMS For TIRF Products The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a single shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) products. This new shared system will replace the individual REMS and allow prescribers and pharmacies to enroll into just one system, easing the burden on the health care system.	03 Jan 2012

Pancreatic Cancer News
Pancreatic Cancer Gene Identified According to data published in Cancer Discovery, the latest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, the risk of inheriting pancreatic cancer may be increased by mutations in the ATM gene.	03 Jan 2012

Parkinson's Disease News
Parkinson's Disease And Survival - Factors That Have An Impact A report in the January issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveals that demographics and clinical factors seem to be linked to survival in patients with Parkinson disease (PD), and that the presence of dementia is linked to a substantial increase in mortality.	03 Jan 2012

Pediatrics / Children's Health News
Baby Formula Safe - According to US Authorities The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as well as Centers for Disease Control (CDC) informed Mead Johnson Nutrition that health inspectors have finalized their examination on all formula samples obtained from the organization.	03 Jan 2012
Young Diabetics Struggle To Get Good Night's Sleep, Health, Behavior Problems Ensue New research finds that many young people with type 1 diabetes struggle to get a good night's sleep and this leads to increased health and behavior problems, such as poorer control of blood sugar and worsening of academic performance.	03 Jan 2012
How Moms Talk Influences Children's Perspective-Taking Ability Young children whose mothers talk with them more frequently and in more detail about people's thoughts and feelings tend to be better at taking another's perspective than other children of the same age.	03 Jan 2012
Toddlers Don't Listen To Their Own Voice Like Adults Do When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.	03 Jan 2012

Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry News
FDA Approves Shared REMS (Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy) Program For All TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) Pain Treatments ProStrakan, Inc., a subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd. (KHK), and an international specialty pharmaceutical company, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) Access program.	03 Jan 2012
ONSOLIS To Benefit From Approval Of Class-Wide REMS For All Transmucosal Fentanyl Products BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) responded to the approval and announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) covering all transmucosal fentanyl products has been approved.	03 Jan 2012

Pregnancy / Obstetrics News
Risk Of ADHD In Children Increased By Gestational Diabetes And Low Socioeconomic Status In the first study of its kind, researchers at Queens College and Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that low socioeconomic status (SES) and maternal gestational diabetes together may cause a 14-fold increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in six year olds.	03 Jan 2012

Preventive Medicine News
UNC HIV Prevention Research Named Scientific Breakthrough Of The Year The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.	03 Jan 2012

Primary Care / General Practice News
News From The Annals Of Internal Medicine: Jan. 3, 2012 1. Sixth Edition of American College of Physicians Ethics Manual Addresses New Topics and Expands on Recurrent Issues The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual.	03 Jan 2012

Psychology / Psychiatry News
Adderall Shortage Set To Continue Adderall is a stimulant used to treat ADHD, but it's also a controlled substance due to the addictive qualities of the drug. The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) monitors and controls how much of the base ingredients to manufacture the drug can be distributed to pharmaceutical companies.	03 Jan 2012
Psychiatric Drugs Overused In Nursing Homes - Authorities Concerned According to government inspectors from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), strong psychiatric medications are often prescribed to individuals with dementia in nursing homes, but for off-label reasons.	03 Jan 2012
The Trait Of Humility Predicts Helpfulness An article published in The Journal of Positive Psychology has researchers suggesting that humble people are more likely to be helpful than those with less humility.Lead author Jordan LaBouff, Ph.	03 Jan 2012
Improvements In Unipolar And Bipolar Depression Following Deep Brain Stimulation A new study shows that deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a safe and effective intervention for treatment-resistant depression in patients with either unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) or bipolar ll disorder (BP).	03 Jan 2012
Interview Technique To Determine What They Are Really Like Little things can be revealing in an interview and a skilled interviewer can look beneath the surface to discover the real candidate.Selecting the right people to lead and build effective executive teams is critical to developing successful organizations and the interviewing process can be the most important step.	03 Jan 2012
Schizophrenia Diagnosis Associated With Progressive Brain Changes Among Adolescents Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.	03 Jan 2012

Public Health News
Need For Action On Health In The Aftermath Of War Highlighted By New Report Countries recovering from war are at risk of being left to their own devices in tackling non communicable diseases, leaving an "open door" for exploitation by alcohol, tobacco and food companies, health experts warn.	03 Jan 2012

Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals News
FDA Approves Shared REMS (Risk Evaluation And Mitigation Strategy) Program For All TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) Pain Treatments ProStrakan, Inc., a subsidiary of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co. Ltd. (KHK), and an international specialty pharmaceutical company, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the TIRF (Transmucosal Immediate Release Fentanyl) REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy) Access program.	03 Jan 2012
ONSOLIS To Benefit From Approval Of Class-Wide REMS For All Transmucosal Fentanyl Products BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDSI) responded to the approval and announcement by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that a Risk Evaluation Mitigation Strategy (REMS) covering all transmucosal fentanyl products has been approved.	03 Jan 2012
FDA To Approve Shared System REMS For TIRF Products The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a single shared Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for the transmucosal immediate-release fentanyl (TIRF) products. This new shared system will replace the individual REMS and allow prescribers and pharmacies to enroll into just one system, easing the burden on the health care system.	03 Jan 2012

Respiratory / Asthma News
FDA Greenlights Pneumonia Vaccine The FDA has approved Prevnar 13, for use on people over 50. Prevnar 13 is a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine, that can prevent pneumonia and disease caused by the bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae.	03 Jan 2012

Schizophrenia News

Schizophrenia Diagnosis Associated With Progressive Brain Changes Among Adolescents Adolescents diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses appear to show greater decreases in gray matter volume and increases in cerebrospinal fluid in the frontal lobe compared to healthy adolescents without a diagnosis of psychosis, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

03 Jan 2012

Sleep / Sleep Disorders / Insomnia News
Young Diabetics Struggle To Get Good Night's Sleep, Health, Behavior Problems Ensue New research finds that many young people with type 1 diabetes struggle to get a good night's sleep and this leads to increased health and behavior problems, such as poorer control of blood sugar and worsening of academic performance.	03 Jan 2012

Smoking / Quit Smoking News
Need For Action On Health In The Aftermath Of War Highlighted By New Report Countries recovering from war are at risk of being left to their own devices in tackling non communicable diseases, leaving an "open door" for exploitation by alcohol, tobacco and food companies, health experts warn.	03 Jan 2012

Transplants / Organ Donations News
Fixing Common Blood Disorder Would Make Kidney Transplants More Successful Correcting anemia, a red blood cell deficiency, can preserve kidney function in many kidney transplant recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).	03 Jan 2012
Improving Family Consent In Organ Donation Could Save Lives Research published in the British Journal of Anaesthesia suggests that organ donation rates in the UK could be increased if the current issues affecting declined consent are improved. At present, only 30% of the UK population are registered on the NHS Organ Donor Register (ODR).	03 Jan 2012

Urology / Nephrology News
Two Recent Studies Distinguish Kidney Cancer Subtypes And Provide Promising New Drug Targets Two recent studies by Van Andel Research Institute scientists are providing a foundation for a more complete understanding of distinct kidney cancer subtypes, which could pave the way for better treatments.	03 Jan 2012
Fixing Common Blood Disorder Would Make Kidney Transplants More Successful Correcting anemia, a red blood cell deficiency, can preserve kidney function in many kidney transplant recipients, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN).	03 Jan 2012

Women's Health / Gynecology News
Dementia and Alzheimer's Risk In Females - Another Possible Risk Factor Found According to a study published Online First by the Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, a hormone derived from visceral fat called adiponectin may play a role as a risk factor for development of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD) in women.	03 Jan 2012
Latitude And Gender Influences Glaucoma Risk When it comes to whether or not you will develop exfoliation syndrome (ES) -- an eye condition that is a leading cause of secondary open-angle glaucoma and increased risk of cataract as well as cataract surgery complications -- age, gender and where you live does matter.	03 Jan 2012

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