http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Some U.S. states have proposed denying Medicaid payments in cases where emergency department visits turn out to be "non-emergencies," but a new study highlights the flaws in that plan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-penalize-non-emergency-ers-flawed.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:41:30 EST news282933682 Because confronting fear won't always make it go away, researchers suggest that people with phobias must alter memory-driven negative attitudes about feared objects or events to achieve a more lasting recovery from what scares them the most. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-persistent-negative-attitude-undo-effectiveness.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:36:28 EST news281104581 (Medical Xpress)—People setting a goal to lose weight in 2013 may want to first ask themselves if diet or exercise is more important to success. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-beliefs-weight-torpedo-year-resolutions.html Health Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:05:16 EST news276361491 If you're going to fall and break something, you should at least have a good story to tell. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-stronger-bones.html Health Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:10:01 EST news275076579 (Medical Xpress)—The average person consumes about 4,000 calories on Thanksgiving, two times the amount that an average person needs. And that's just the start of a holiday season full of parties, dinners and get-togethers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hints-illusion-healthy-holiday.html Health Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:10:01 EST news272795748 Melanoma is on the rise nationally, and transplant recipients and lymphoma patients are far likelier than the average person to get that form of skin cancer and to die from it, a Mayo Clinic review has found. That is because their immune systems tend to be significantly depressed, making early detection of melanoma even more important, says co-author Jerry Brewer, M.D., a Mayo dermatologist. The findings are published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-melanoma-likelier-transplant-lymphoma-patients.html Cancer Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:18:36 EST news268489082 (Medical Xpress) -- If a woman were to consume in the form of food the amount of energy she uses, and were to follow the fertility patterns seen in other species, she would weigh as much as two elephants, and would continue to bear children up to the age of 70. This is because, generally, the more energy an organism uses, the bigger it is, the longer it lives, and the later it reproduces. But is this true of humans? After all, humans satisfy their appetite for energy through electrical outlets and other industrial sources. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-electric-meter-birth.html Medical research Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:20:02 EST news260607934 Gene scans for everyone? Not so fast. New research suggests that for the average person, decoding your own DNA may not turn out to be a really useful crystal ball for future health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-gene-fast.html Genetics Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:47:19 EST news252589619