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From April 28 to May 1 the National Academy of Sciences will hold its 144th annual meeting, at which new Academy members will be elected. ELECTION RESULTS will be available on May 1 at noon EDT online at http://national-academies.org. Meeting sessions will be held in the auditorium of the National Academies building, 2100 C St., N.W.OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:APRIL 28, 8 P.M. TO 9 P.M. [click link for full article]

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Allergy season is here, and over-the-counter allergy medications are flying off the shelves. But did you know that mixing certain allergy medications with other medicines can have hazardous effects on your health? The active ingredients of allergy products can cause over-medicating with other combination or single-entity non-prescription or prescription medications. [click link for full article]

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Some HIV/AIDS advocates last week at a forum in Washington, D.C., called for changes to a U.S. law that bans HIV-positive foreigners from entering the country, the Bay Area Reporter reports (Roehr, Bay Area Reporter, 4/19). Congress in 1993 enacted legislation that prevented HIV-positive foreigners from obtaining visas or citizenship. According to the [click link for full article]

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Avicena Group, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AVGOE), a late stage biotechnology company focused on commercializing its proprietary cellular energy modulation technology, announced today that it has filed a composition of matter patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease), a severe neurodegenerative disease. [click link for full article]

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Chronic depression or depression that worsens over time may cause diabetes in older adults, according to new Northwestern University research.This is the first national study to suggest that depression alone — and not lifestyle factors like being overweight - can trigger Type 2 diabetes in adults 65 and older, a population with a high prevalence of diabetes and depression. The report will be published April 23 in Archives of Internal Medicine. [click link for full article]

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The New York Times on Friday examined the debate over experimental oral contraceptives that can eliminate monthly menstrual periods. According to the Times, researchers have found that many women view a birth control pill that can eliminate monthly menstruation as a “welcome milestone,” but other women see their periods as “fundamental symbols of fertility and health. [click link for full article]

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One of the biggest research trials carried out in GP surgeries has confirmed that those with specialist cardiac nurse clinics can help to improve patients’ lives. The University of Leicester research discovered that cardiac nurses were able to benefit patients with angina, heart attacks and heart failure.Dr Kamlesh Khunti and Dr Iain Squire carried out the research in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of Leicester. [click link for full article]

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A team from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University is providing technical assistance to the East and Southern Africa Regional Office of the United Nations Children’s Fund (EASRO UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the government of Kenya to build strategies for implementing Kenya’s National Food and Nutrition Policy. [click link for full article]

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A £4.5m community based digital eye screening programme designed to detect and treat diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world, is being rolled out to other locations, following its huge success since launching seven months ago. The Nottingham Diabetic Retinopathy Service is expanding from four to 10 locations, to include additional health centres and a branch of Boots in Nottingham City Centre as well as two hospitals. [click link for full article]

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The number of combat veterans who return from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and visit Department of Veterans Affairs walk-in clinics has more than doubled since 2004, but the number of staff members at the clinics has increased by less than 10% over the same period, according to department records, USA Today reports. [click link for full article]

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