Mental Health
BMA Scotland Welcomes Announcement Of Minimum Price For Alcohol
The BMA has welcomed plans to set the minimum price per unit of alcohol in Scotland at 45 pence. Commenting on the proposed price announced by the Cabinet Secretary this morning, Dr Brian Keighley, chairman of the BMA in Scotland, said that so far, no credible alternative to minimum pricing had been identified by opposition parties and he urged them to back the Alcohol Bill...
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A Genetic Predisposition To Alcohol Dependence May Be Indicated By Sensitivity To Alcohol Odors
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are DNA sequence variations that occur when a single nucleotide in the genome sequence is altered. Prior research suggested an association between SNPs in a gene that encodes aspects of the brain's gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)-A receptors (the GABRA2 gene) and alcohol dependence...
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New UNH Research Shows Risk Of Marijuana's 'Gateway Effect' Overblown
New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that the "gateway effect" of marijuana - that teenagers who use marijuana are more likely to move on to harder illicit drugs as young adults - is overblown. Whether teenagers who smoked pot will use other illicit drugs as young adults has more to do with life factors such as employment status and stress, according to the new research...
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WHO Proposes Creation Of African Public Health Emergency Fund, Strategy To Reduce Alcohol Use In Africa
During the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO on Monday, Luis Sambo, regional director of the WHO for Africa, proposed the creation of a public health emergency fund to provide financial support to African countries in emergency situations, Agencia AngolaPress reports (8/30)...
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Addiction, Compulsive Eating May Be Linked By Biochemical Pathway
Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, which is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco...
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Floridians Prepare To Take Back The State
September's National Pain Awareness Month has never been more important for the state of Florida. Recent data from the Florida Medical Examiner shows residents are dying at a rate of at least 7 per day as a result of prescription drug abuse...
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Michael Douglas Says He Has Stage Four Throat Cancer
Michael Douglas told a US television audience on Tuesday night that he has been diagnosed with and is receiving treatment for stage four throat cancer. Speaking on David Letterman's "Late Show" to promote the release of his new film "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps", the 65- year old American actor and producer said his doctors had told him he has an 80 per cent chance of survival...
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Study Finds Privatizing Sweden's Retail Alcohol Sales Will Increase Alcohol-Related Violence And Other Harms
A study published in the scientific journal Addiction argues that privatising Sweden's government monopoly on the sale of alcohol will significantly increase alcohol-related violence and other harms...
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Research Reveals Higher Rates Of Substance Use By Hispanic Students
Hispanic middle school students may be more likely to smoke, drink or use marijuana than their peers of other races and ethnicities, whereas Asian students seem to have the lowest risk, according to new research in the September issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs...
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White House Drug Policy Director Awards $85.6 Million To Local Communities To Prevent Youth Drug Use
Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), announced $22 million in new Drug Free Communities Support Program (DFC) grants to 169 communities and 16 new DFC Mentoring grants across the country...
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Death Of Injecting Drug User In Leicestershire
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) and NHS Leicestershire County and Rutland can confirm that they are investigating the death of a drug injecting heroin user in Leicestershire. Testing of samples from the patient has confirmed the presence of anthrax. This is the fourth case of anthrax seen in an injecting drug user in England, the first being announced in London on 5 February 2010...
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FDA Seeks Court Order Against Michigan Dairy
The U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has filed a complaint for permanent injunction against Scenic View Dairy of Hamilton, Mich., its president, and three of its managers alleging that they sold dairy cows for human consumption that contained illegal drug residues in edible tissues. The complaint, filed Aug. 31, 2010, in the U.S...
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BMA Scotland Comment On Labour Alcohol Commission Report
Commenting on the Scottish Labour's Commission on Alcohol report yesterday (Tuesday 31 August 2010) the BMA said it was 'disappointed' that the panel had rejected minimum pricing as the most effective measure to address alcohol misuse in Scotland...
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Adventure Trial Successfully Lowers Drinking Rates In At Risk Children
The coming weeks mark the return to school for many of our youngest citizens. Sadly the satisfaction of making new friends and obtaining good test scores may be overshadowed by the prospect of substance abuse for some school-aged adolescents. The previous decade has witnessed a two-fold increase in both alcohol consumption and intoxication by adolescents age 12 to 17...
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Vancouver's Supervised Injection Facility Challenges Canada's Drug Laws
Despite medical research that indicates Vancouver's supervised injection facility, Insite, reduces needle-sharing and overdose deaths, the facility's fate is uncertain, states an analysis article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Insite was North America's first sanctioned supervised safe injection site, opened in 2003 under the then Liberal government...
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Why Do Moderate Drinkers Live Longer Than Abstainers?
Researchers found that moderate alcohol drinkers are more likely to live longer over a 20-year follow-up than heavy drinkers and abstainers. Moderate drinking means consuming about one or two drinks per day...
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Smoking Cannabis Reduces Pain, Helps Sleep And Improves Mood For Those With Chronic Symptoms
For patients with chronic (long-term) neuropathic pain, smoking cannabis was found to reduce symptoms of pain, improve mood and help sleep, a report published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Journal Association) revealed...
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Drugs In Sport: Support Available, Australian Psychological Society
The Australian Psychological Society (APS) will offer psychological assistance to sportspeople and sporting organisations to deal with drugs in sport as part of a new government initiative. As part of the Australian Government's $20...
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At NACDS Pharmacy & Technology Conference, Cardinal Health Helps Retail Pharmacies Fight Prescription Drug Abuse
At the NACDS Pharmacy & Technology Conference, taking place August 28-31 in San Diego, Calif., Cardinal Health will encourage attendees to learn more about how they can get involved in the fight against prescription drug abuse...
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Authorities Arrest More Than 80 People, Seize 10 Tons Of Counterfeit Meds In E. Africa
Authorities have arrested more than 80 people and seized 10 tons of counterfeit medicines across six East African countries, the international police agency Interpol announced Thursday, United Press International reports (8/26). Interpol, together with a WHO unit, "targeted alleged networks of counterfeit drugs makers, traffickers and vendors," the Canadian Press reports (8/26)...
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- Causes of death among children younger than 4
- Eating E numbers: What is behind them? - Health Supreme NewsGrabs Tuesday, 31 August 2010
- EU food-supplement directive to override consumer choice - Health Supreme NewsGrabs Tuesday, 24 August 2010
- Appeals Court Stays Proposition 8 Injunction
- WHO Says Swine Flu Pandemic Over - Health Supreme NewsGrabs Sunday, 15 August 2010
- A Flipping Point on Gay Marriage?
- Reason Morning Links: Parking Prices, a Border Bill, and the Big Baby Conspiracy
- Is It Crazy to Call Californians Irrational?
- Gary Johnson Distances Himself From Libertarianism
- Overreaching on Gay Marriage
- Characterization of vascular strain during in-vitro angioplasty with high-resolution ultrasound speckle tracking
- Dynamic models of immune responses: what is the ideal level of detail?
- Serotonin synthesis, release and reuptake in terminals: a mathematical model
- A novel approach to modelling water transport and drug diffusion through the stratum corneum
- Network, degeneracy and bow tie Integrating paradigms and architectures to grasp the complexity of the immune system
- Money from Bill and Melinda Gates will help beat Dengue fever in Australia
- Australian scientists win funds for new research
- South Carolina health coverage, cigarette tax bill stalls in state Senate
- Supporters, opponents of comparative effectiveness research 'gearing up' to clash over planned efforts, New York Times reports
- Survey examines wait times for appointments with specialists in 15 U.S. cities
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- HIV Surveillance Supplemental Report, Volume 15, Number 1
- e-HAP Pubs August 17, 2010
- Poster: Communities in Crisis: Is There a Generalized HIV Epidemic in Impoverished Urban Areas of the United States?
- Factsheet: Projecting Possible Future Courses of the HIV Epidemic in the United States
- e-HAP FYI August 9, 2010
- Effect of Rifampicin on Efavirenz Pharmacokinetics in HIV-Infected Children With Tuberculosis.
- Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of HIV-1-Specific CD4+CD8+ Double-Positive T Cells in Early and Chronic HIV-1 Infection.
- Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection Does Not Influence the CD4 Cell Recovery in HIV-1-Infected Patients With Maximum Virologic Suppression.
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Among HIV-Infected Persons.
- A Once-Daily Lopinavir/Ritonavir-Based Regimen Is Noninferior to Twice-Daily Dosing and Results in Similar Safety and Tolerability in Antiretroviral-Naive Subjects Through 48 Weeks.
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