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Worsening money management skills could be an early indicator of dementia, a new study suggests. A decline in the ability to manage money can be seen in patients a year before they develop Alzheimerā€™s, according to researchers in the US. The findings from the University of Alabama in Birmingham suggest that worsening financial skills could be a useful indicator for doctors treating those with memory problems. Published in ... Full story

Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, lambasted the countercultural movement for marginalizing a chemical that he asserted had potential benefits as an invaluable supplement to psychotherapy and spiritual practices such as meditation. ā€œThis joy at having fathered LSD was tarnished after more than ten years of uninterrupted scientific research and medicinal use when LSD was swept up in the huge wave of an inebriant mania ... Full story

BANGKOK, THAILAND ā€“ For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible. The World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the results ā€œinstilled new hopeā€ in the field of HIV vaccine research. The vaccine ā€“ ... Full story

ROME ā€“ World food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be 9.1 billion, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast Wednesday. ā€œFAO is cautiously optimistic about the worldā€™s potential to feed itself by 2050,ā€ said FAO Assistant Director-General Hafez Ghanem. However, he stressed that feeding everyone in the world by then ā€œwill not be automatic and ... Full story

Swine flu is spreading in Scotland at the rate of 1,000 new cases a week ā€“ up by 7,034 in the past week compared with 6,180 for the previous seven days, according to latest official estimates. Government surveillance figures also show the rate of GP consultations for flu-like illnesses, including swine flu, across Scotland rose to 62.1 per 100,000 this week. This is an increase from ... Full story

Anticipating a change in the practice of interventional cardiology, Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), announced today that the latest findings from the ENDEAVOR IV clinical trial ā€“ a large study comparing two drug-eluting coronary stents head-to-head ā€“ demonstrate statistically and clinically significant differences in measures of safety between Medtronicā€™s Endeavor zotarolimus-eluting stent and Boston Scientificā€™s Taxus paclitaxel-eluting stent at three years of patient follow-up. The new ... Full story

Colgate-Palmolive is proud to announce the launch of ColgateĀ® Sensitive Pro-ReliefTM Toothpaste; a new revolutionary treatment for dentine hypersensitivity that is clinically proven to deliver instant and lasting sensitivity relief. Dentine hypersensitivity Dentine hypersensitivity, also known as tooth sensitivity, is a highly prevalent condition affecting up to 57% of patients worldwide(i). Most commonly triggered by cold temperatures and stimuli such as hot or cold food and ... Full story

New data from the phase III PLATO study showed that BRILINTA (ticagrelor) provided greater reduction of cardiovascular (CV) events (composite of CV death, heart attack and stroke) than clopidogrel (9.02% vs. 10.65%, p=0.0025 a 16% Relative Risk Reduction) in acute coronary syndromes patients undergoing planned invasive treatment (either PCI or CABG).* Although patients undergoing invasive procedures are at greater risk of bleeding, these results were ... Full story

(Nasdaq: TEVA) announced today that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana has issued a decision invalidating two patents listed in the FDAā€™s Orange Book for Eli Lillyā€™s EvistaĀ® (raloxifene hydrochloride) Tablets in litigation concerning Tevaā€™s abbreviated new drug application to market a generic version. The court found these patents to be invalid for lack of written description. In the same opinion, the ... Full story

A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word ā€œcarcinomaā€ scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday. They said the term carcinoma creates a lot of worry in women who fear they will develop cancer, even though long-term survival rates for DCIS are excellent, approaching 100 percent. ā€œWeā€™ve had ... Full story