http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Taiwan heightened surveillance of travelers from China on Thursday after authorities confirmed the island's first case of a new deadly strain of bird flu. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-taiwan-h7n9-bird-flu-case.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:51:04 EST news286084240 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Australia have uncovered what they describe as differences in brain behavior for people diagnosed with either bipolar disorder (BP) or borderline personality disorder (BPD). As they describe in their paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, brain scans of people diagnosed with one or the other of the disorders show differences in the ways emotions are processed, leading perhaps to a true biological marker for the two ailments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-effort-reveals-differences-brain-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 04 Apr 2013 05:38:14 EST news284272640 (AP)—British officials say a mysterious virus related to SARS may have spread between humans, as they confirmed the 11th case worldwide of the new coronavirus in a patient who they say probably caught it from a family member. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-sars-linked-virus-people.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:40:01 EST news279972824 Healthy men and women show little difference in their hearts, except for small electrocardiographic disparities. But new genetic differences found by Washington University in St. Louis researchers in hearts with disease could ultimately lead to personalized treatment of various heart ailments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-genes-clues-gender-disparity-human.html Cardiology Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:02:33 EST news278262143 In one of the first genome-wide studies to hunt for both genes and their regulatory "tags" in patients suffering from a common disease, researchers have found a clear role for the tags in mediating genetic risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an immune disorder that afflicts an estimated 1.5 million American adults. By teasing apart the tagging events that result from RA from those that help cause it, the scientists say they were able to spot tagged DNA sequences that may be important for the development of RA. And they suspect their experimental method can be applied to predict similar risk factors for other common, noninfectious diseases, like type II diabetes and heart ailments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-genes-regulatory-tags-conspire-rheumatoid.html Genetics Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:00:19 EST news277899999 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers in Japan have injected induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mice back into genetically identical mice and report that doing so caused no immune reaction. This contradicts the results of an earlier study that showed using the technique could lead to an immune response that destroyed the injected cells. In this new research, the team, as they report in their paper published in the journal Nature, injected iPSCs into a mouse embryo, then transplanted tissue from the grown mice into genetically identical mice, with no apparent immunity response. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-refutes-ipscs-prone-immune-response.html Medical research Thu, 10 Jan 2013 07:50:01 EST news277023910 The US Supreme Court declined Monday to enter the emotionally-charged debate over stem cell research, refusing to hear an appeal centered on the issue of federal government funding. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-court-wont-embryonic-stem-cell.html Other Mon, 07 Jan 2013 10:10:41 EST news276775481 Computational medicine, a fast-growing method of using computer models and sophisticated software to figure out how disease develops—and how to thwart it—has begun to leap off the drawing board and land in the hands of doctors who treat patients for heart ailments, cancer and other illnesses. Using digital tools, researchers have begun to use experimental and clinical data to build models that can unravel complex medical mysteries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-medicine-doctors-disease.html Medical research Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:19:47 EST news270991179 (AP)—A government official says Taiwan might be unable to support its highly-praised health insurance program because of a growing elderly population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-taiwan-sustain-popular-health.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:50:43 EST news268544998 Research carried out at The University of Manchester has found further evidence that a simple solution, which is already used in IV drips, is an effective treatment for reducing inflammation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-solution-inflammation.html Inflammatory disorders Thu, 20 Sep 2012 10:29:50 EST news267355777 (Medical Xpress)—Repeated exposure to violent images from the terrorist attacks of Sept ember 11 and the Iraq War led to an increase in physical and psychological ailments in a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults, according to a new UC Irvine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-exposure-traumatic-images-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:52:56 EST news265989168 A groundbreaking new research study from Indiana University suggests there may be benefits to the controversial activities of "pro-ana" bloggers, the online community for people with eating disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pro-anorexic-bloggers-groundbreaking.html Health Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:24:43 EST news264673475 (HealthDay) -- Got a weird ache or pain? A rash that's hung around too long? With the wealth of information now available at the click of a mouse, it's common to search the Web to figure out what may be wrong with you. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-symptom-experts-self-diagnosis-web.html Health Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:30:16 EST news262621803 Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center appear to have solved the mystery of why some patients infected with HIV, who are using antiretroviral therapy and show no signs of AIDS, develop serious depression as well as profound problems with memory, learning, and motor function. The finding might also provide a way to test people with HIV to determine their risk for developing dementia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-reveal-potential-hiv-associated-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:01 EST news261156055 Getting too little sleep – or even too much – appears to spell trouble for the heart. New data reveal that adults who get less than six hours of sleep a night are at significantly greater risk of stroke, heart attack and congestive heart failure. Even those who reportedly sleep more than eight hours a night have a higher prevalence of heart problems, namely chest pain (angina) and coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart, according to research presented today at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session. The Scientific Session, the premier cardiovascular medical meeting, brings cardiovascular professionals together to further advances in the field. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-linked-heart-woes.html Sleep apnea Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:30:02 EST news251956983 A major downside of the medical use of marijuana is the drug's ill effects on working memory, the ability to transiently hold and process information for reasoning, comprehension and learning. Researchers reporting in the March 2 print issue of the Cell Press journal Cell provide new insight into the source of those memory lapses. The answer comes as quite a surprise: Marijuana's major psychoactive ingredient (THC) impairs memory independently of its direct effects on neurons. The side effects stem instead from the drug's action on astroglia, passive support cells long believed to play second fiddle to active neurons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-marijuana-impairs-memory.html Medical research Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:16:24 EST news249830177 Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-flu-drug-brain-injury-recovery.html Medical research Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:04:05 EST news249761034 Scientists have developed a unique compound that in laboratory tests blocks inflammation-causing molecules in blood cells known to fuel ailments like cancer and cardiovascular disease without causing harmful toxicity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-class-compounds-disease-fueling-inflammation-lab.html Medical research Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:56:05 EST news249224158 A federal advisory panel wants all U.S. adults to get vaccinated against whooping cough. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-panel-adults-whooping-shots.html Health Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:51:19 EST news249137471 (AP) -- More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-tough-choice-looms-health-lawsuits.html Health Mon, 26 Dec 2011 05:14:28 EST news244098854 New research is prompting a fresh look at the value of vitamin supplements, with some surprising results indicating that taking too many supplements of some could be harmful. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-highlight-vitamin-supplements.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:35:03 EST news238066492 For the first time, USC scientists have mapped out a neuroreceptor. This scientific breakthrough promises to revolutionize the engineering of drugs used to treat ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-human-neuroreceptor.html Medical research Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:00:53 EST news234963938 Job-related stress is catching up with the Canadians. A new study by Concordia University economists, published in BMC Public Health, has found that increased job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals for physical, mental and emotional ailments linked to job stress. Indeed, the number of visits to healthcare professionals is up to 26 per cent for workers in high stress jobs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-workplace-stress-health-hazard.html Health Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:02 EST news233487289 The events of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way Americans travel and view the world. They may also have made us sicker and more likely to access healthcare services, according to a new UC Irvine study http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-illness-doctor-years-sept.html Health Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:30:46 EST news231150625