http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Has your paternal or maternal grandfather broken their hip on any occasion? In that case there is a greater risk that your own bones are more fragile as an adult. This has been demonstrated in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden based on a study of over 1,000 young adults in Gothenburg, which identified those factors increasing the risk of bone fragility in men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-grandad-hip-fracture-factor-osteoporosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 13:00:16 EST news282225607 Clogged arteries and sedentary lifestyles have replaced germs as the world's leading killers. Where hunger once held much of the world in its grip, the 1.6 billion overweight and obese now outnumber the malnourished by nearly 2-to-1. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obesity-consequences-rapidly-world.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:50:02 EST news278689633 (HealthDay)—The drug Oxytrol has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as the first over-the-counter treatment for women 18 and older with overactive bladder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-otc-drug-women-overactive-bladder.html Medications Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:11:25 EST news278341876 The "prison-like" immigration detention facilities on Christmas Island are not appropriate for asylum seekers, and there has been a rise in the demand for mental health services at the facility, according to a damning report released today by the Human Rights Commission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-christmas-island-detention-centre-spike.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:26:57 EST news274609611 Findings from a study suggest that certain variations in vitamin D metabolism genes may modify the association of low serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations with health outcomes such as hip fracture, heart attack, cancer, and death, according to a study appearing in the November 14 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-genetic-variation-associations-vitamin-d.html Health Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:00:05 EST news272044257 Men with divorced parents are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke than men from intact families, shows a new study from the University of Toronto. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-parental-divorce-linked-males.html Health Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:36:51 EST news266755004 After seeing faces for less than a blink of an eye, college students have accuracy greater than mere chance in judging others' sexual orientation. Their "gaydar" persisted even when they saw the photos upside-down, and gay versus straight judgments were more accurate for women's faces than for men's. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gaydar-automatic-accurate-women-psychologists.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 May 2012 12:18:17 EST news256389488 A simple drawing test can predict the long-term risk of dying after a first stroke among older men, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-subsequent-death-older-men.html Cardiology Wed, 09 May 2012 18:30:02 EST news255784188 Sweat drips down the face of a plump woman as she shuffles between exercise machines and pauses to greet passersby in Soweto's first outdoor gym, a new trend in South Africa, one of the world's fattest nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-outdoor-gyms-fat-south-africa.html Health Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:21:53 EST news252818500 There has not been significant change in the prevalence of obesity in the U.S., with data from 2009-2010 indicating that about one in three adults and one in six children and teens are obese; however, there have been increases in certain demographics, according to two studies being published by JAMA. The studies are being released online first because of their public health importance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-prevalence-obesity-high-years.html Health Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:32:16 EST news246033126 even if your body weight has not changed or increased -- you can reduce your risk of death, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-physical-trumps-body-weight-death.html Cardiology Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:34:14 EST news242325243 A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) analysis of long-term effects of violent video game play on the brain has found changes in brain regions associated with cognitive function and emotional control in young adult men after one week of game play. The results of the study were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-violent-video-games-brain-function.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:45:45 EST news241843520 There is no scientific basis for teaching boys and girls separately, according to Lise Eliot from The Chicago Medical School. Her review reveals fundamental flaws in the arguments put forward by proponents of single-sex schools to justify the need of teaching teach boys and girls separately. Eliot shows that neuroscience has identified few reliable differences between boys' and girls' brains relevant to learning or education. Her work is published online in Springer's journal Sex Roles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-parents-misled-advocates-single-sex.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:28:37 EST news232882102 As many as 15 percent of men have varicoceles, masses of enlarged and dilated veins in the testicles. There is new evidence that varicoceles, long known to be a cause of male infertility, interfere with the production of testosterone -- a crucial hormone to maintaining men's health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-testosterone-linked-varicoceles.html Medical research Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:28:29 EST news227453299 The distance between a man's scrotum and anus may indicate his ability to reproduce, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in the journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-potential-predictor-male-reproductive.html Medical research Wed, 11 May 2011 17:27:10 EST news224353605