http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Institute of Physics A child can directly influence the attitude and behaviour of their parents towards the environment without them even knowing it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-kids-parents-respect-environment.html Pediatrics Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:39:19 EST news279945543 Magnetic fields produced by the naturally occurring electrical currents in the brain could potentially be used as an objective test for schizophrenia and help to better understand the disease, according to new research published today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain-insight-schizophrenia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:00:07 EST news278790004 Korean scientists have used tiny stars, squares and triangles as a toolkit to create live neural circuits in a dish. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-triangles-neural-circuits-dish.html Neuroscience Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:00:02 EST news261932412 Japanese scientists have found that the odorous compound responsible for halitosis – otherwise known as bad breath – is ideal for harvesting stem cells taken from human dental pulp. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-dental-pulp-stem-cells-bad.html Medical research Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:00:01 EST news249483012 Free-flowing cancer cells have been mapped with unprecedented accuracy in the bloodstream of patients with prostate, breast and pancreatic cancer, using a brand new approach, in an attempt to assess and control the disease as it spreads in real time through the body, and solve the problem of predicting response and resistance to therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-technology-tackle-treatment-resistant-cancers.html Cancer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:37:23 EST news247484220 (Medical Xpress) -- Lasers have been used to fabricate tiny scaffolds to be used as delivery vehicles to drop cells off at damaged locations and help treat diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-lasers-path-neuron-regeneration.html Medical research Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:25:19 EST news235812205 A technology usually reserved for designing buildings, bridges and aircraft has now been used to aid breast tissue reconstruction in cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-computer-aided-breast-tissue-reconstruction.html Medical research Thu, 08 Sep 2011 05:16:28 EST news234677766 A novel breath test, measuring the immune response to the H1N1 flu virus, could help to ease future vaccine shortages by identifying the people who have already been infected with the flu virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-swine-flu-future-vaccination-shortages.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:30:01 EST news229875209 Researchers have developed a new test to detect the levels of vitamin B12 using your breath, allowing for a cheaper, faster, and simpler diagnosis that could help to avoid the potentially fatal symptoms of B12 deficiency. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-fresh-air-vitamin-b12-deficiency.html Neuroscience Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:47:29 EST news228019624 (Medical Xpress) -- Tiny electrodes have been coated with a drug-loaded polymer in an attempt to design an implant capable of detecting a number of neurological symptoms, such as those associated with an epileptic seizure, and treating them simultaneously. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-technology-brain-implant-seizures.html Medical research Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:21:33 EST news226210880