Health 

Brain Mechanism May Explain Alcohol Cravings That Drive Relapse - New research provides exciting insight into the molecular mechanisms associated with addiction and relapse. The study, published by Cell Press in the March 11 issue of the journal Neuron, uncovers a crucial mechanism that facilitates motivation for alcohol after extended abstinence and opens new avenues for potential therapeutic intervention. Previous work has suggested that people, places, and objects associated with alcohol use are potent triggers for eliciting relapse and that cravings for both alcohol and drugs can increase across protracted abstinence...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST

Identifying Patient-Relevant Outcomes In Metastatic Prostate Cancer - While subjective patient-reported outcomes, such as scores from health-status questionnaires, have become an integral part of clinical trials, there is also a need to identify what specific outcomes are the most important ones to target in a given disease context. The objective of this study was to develop a framework of patient-relevant outcome issues in men being treated for metastatic, hormone-refractory prostate cancer in order to enhance and support the clarity of measurement in this population...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST

Men's 'Barbarity' Should Not Be Used To Justify Mistreatment Of Women, Opinion Piece Argues - "'Feminism' is a loaded word in the United States," but the "simple fact is that 'the feminists' are absolutely right when it comes to the treatment of women in much of the developing world," Los Angeles Times columnist Jonah Goldberg writes. He adds that a recent Washington Post opinion piece on the Cameroonian practice of "breast ironing" is just one of the many examples of women and girls "pay[ing] the price for the barbarity of boys...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST

Pro- And Anti-Health Reform Groups Wage Last Minute Attacks - Stephan Payne protested abuses by health insurance companies and pushed for health care reform during a rally Tuesday. The rally was organized by Health Care for America Now and coincided with an annual conference for health insurance executives in D.C. (Jessica Marcy/KHN) Thousands of protestors marched Tuesday to Washington's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where insurance company executives are meeting, The Washington Post reports. The protestors reinforced "the Obama administration's recent criticism of increasing health premiums...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST

Lincoln, Kucinich Weigh In On Health Bill Votes - Lawmakers weigh in on the health care overhaul debate. The Associated Press/The Washington Times: Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., "insisted Tuesday she remained opposed to pushing a health care bill through the Senate with a simple majority vote, despite saying she wanted to see what was in the legislation." Lincoln "said those comments didn't represent a change of heart on her stance against the controversial majority-vote procedure known as 'reconciliation.' 'I don't support reconciliation. All I said was I want to see what's in it,' Lincoln told reporters outside the Senate floor...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST

Age Concern And Help The Aged's Response To Today's Care Summit, UK - Following Age Concern and Help the Aged's care summit, Andrew Harrop, Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Age Concern and Help the Aged, said: 'Our care summit did exactly what it set out to do. It provided all three main political parties the neutral platform that was needed to re-open dialogue about reforming the current care and support system. 'The three health spokespeople each spoke outlining their proposals on reforming care, and then participated in debate with older people, care users and experts...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:00:00 PST