http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Pennsylvania State University Family caregivers of older adults with dementia are less stressed and their moods are improved on days when dementia patients receive adult day services (ADS), according to Penn State researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-adult-day-dementia-patients-stress.html Health Thu, 23 May 2013 12:10:58 EST news288529840 College students eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more on days when they communicate more with their parents, according to researchers at Penn State. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-students-diet-physical-parent.html Health Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:17 EST news287920811 For young women in high school, the risk of childbearing may depend on the prevalence of obesity in their schools, according to sociologists, who found that as the prevalence of obesity rises in a school, so do the odds of obese high school students bearing children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-obese-students-childbearing-varies-high.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 09 May 2013 10:32:01 EST news287314311 (Medical Xpress)—Consumption of whole walnuts or their extracted oil can reduce cardiovascular risk through a mechanism other than simply lowering cholesterol, according to a team of Penn State, Tufts University and University of Pennsylvania researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-walnuts-oil-cardiovascular-disease.html Health Wed, 08 May 2013 11:15:49 EST news287230528 (Medical Xpress)—A gene associated with both protection against bacterial infection and excessive blood clotting could offer new insights into treatment strategies for deep-vein thrombosis—the formation of a harmful clot in a deep vein. The gene produces an enzyme that, if inhibited via a specific drug therapy, could offer hope to patients prone to deep-vein clots, such as those that sometimes form in the legs during lengthy airplane flights or during recuperation after major surgery. The research, which was led by Yanming Wang, a Penn State University associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Denisa Wagner, senior author with decades of research on thrombosis at the Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard University Medical School, will be published in in the Online Early Edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week ending 10 May 2013. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gene-clues-treatments-blood-clotting.html Genetics Wed, 08 May 2013 08:50:02 EST news287220776 In late March 2013, China notified the World Health Organization (WHO), that it had identified a new flu virus in patients who had become ill. The new virus, avian influenza A (H7N9) virus, had not been found in humans until this time. This has resulted in severe illness for more than 128 patients who contracted the virus. There have been 24 deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-flu-virus-china-urged-guidelines.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 08 May 2013 07:29:20 EST news287216941 (Medical Xpress)—Robots are everywhere these days. They roam Mars, solve Rubik's cubes and vacuum our floors. Now, a robot named da Vinci is helping patients across the Penn State region get the major surgeries they need with less pain, complications and recovery time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-da-vinci-robot-surgery-renaissance.html Surgery Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:50:01 EST news286095903 Even the most die-hard couch potato can come down with a case of spring fever as the days get longer and the weather warms. You know the symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-medical-minute-overexertion-injuries-fever.html Health Thu, 25 Apr 2013 08:30:04 EST news286095945 (Medical Xpress)—Current college culture allows for an environment where risks of addiction and alcohol dependency increase while mental health decreases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-alcohol-habits-students-addiction.html Addiction Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:08:19 EST news286016891 (Medical Xpress)—Oral supplementation of glutathione is effective in increasing the body's stores of the antioxidant, said Penn State College of Medicine researchers in study results presented at a conference today (April 22). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-oral-supplement-body-storage-antioxidant.html Medical research Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:00:58 EST news285926450 Achieving widespread reductions in preventable hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries may take longer than many health care professionals originally anticipated, according to researchers at Penn State, the Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hospital-readmission.html Health Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:02:39 EST news285343353 (Medical Xpress)—A new model of brain lateralization for movement could dramatically improve the future of rehabilitation for stroke patients, according to Penn State researcher Robert Sainburg, who proposed and confirmed the model through novel virtual reality and brain lesion experiments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-brain-functions-revolutionize-rehab.html Neuroscience Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:38:22 EST news285320024 (Medical Xpress)—Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called "hotspots," according to a research discovery to be published in the print edition of the journal Human Molecular Genetics. The research indicates that these genetic changes come in the form of an excess of duplicated DNA segments in hotspot regions and may affect the chances that a child will develop autism—a behavioral disorder that affects about 1 of every 88 children in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-autism-linked-genetic-regions-genome.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 03 Apr 2013 09:59:49 EST news284201977 Canola oil and high-oleic canola oils can lower abdominal fat when used in place of other selected oil blends, according to a team of American and Canadian researchers. The researchers also found that consuming certain vegetable oils may be a simple way of reducing the risk of metabolic syndrome, which affects about one in three U.S. adults and one in five Canadian adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-monosaturated-fats-metabolic-syndrome.html Health Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:47:15 EST news283776428 The sooner a person smokes a cigarette upon waking in the morning, the more likely he or she is to acquire lung or oral cancer, according to Penn State researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-immediately-lung-oral-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:33:23 EST news283775596