http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Eminent Belgian scientist Christian de Duve, a winner of the Nobel prize for medicine, died Saturday aged 95 after committing euthanasia, which is legal in Belgium, his family said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-belgian-nobel-winner-commits-euthanasia.html Other Mon, 06 May 2013 09:15:02 EST news287050491 (HealthDay)—In Belgium, between 1998 and 2007, euthanasia was legalized and palliative care was intensified, which led to an increase in end-of-life decisions (ELDs) and fewer life-ending acts without the patient's explicit request, according to research published online March 11 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-belgium-tracks-trends-end-of-life-decision.html Health Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:00:01 EST news284215385 Researchers in Belgium also show how dogs can help patients with severe sleep problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-dogs-sleepy-patients.html Health Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:30:03 EST news274642645 (HealthDay)—Educational interventions, mainly focused on a biomechanical/biomedical model, do not seem to be effective in preventing low back pain, according to a review published in the December issue of the European Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-spine-ineffective-pain.html Health Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:10:01 EST news274333481 France's oldest woman Maria Richard has died at the age of 111, the retirement home where she lived said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-france-oldest-woman-maria-richard.html Other Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:15:30 EST news269180125 A gravelly ill prisoner serving a long jail sentence has become the first inmate to die under Belgian euthanasia laws introduced 10 years ago, press reports said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-belgian-euthanasia-law-death-prisoner.html Other Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:25:16 EST news266757910 (HealthDay) -- Small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants who are formula-fed (FOF) have elevated endocrine levels of high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin and insulin growth factor-I (IGF-I) compared with breastfed (BRF) SGA infants, according to research published in the August issue of Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-nutrition-affects-endocrinology-sga-infants.html Diabetes Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:30:01 EST news263057838 Belgium's pharmaceuticals giant Solvay announced a better-than-expected 6.0 percent rise in net profit for the second quarter on Friday, sending its shares rising sharply. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-belgian-pharmaceuticals-giant-solvay-profit.html Other Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:09:49 EST news262588179 (HealthDay) -- Combining a disability evaluation with proactive counseling for workers with low back pain (LBP) results in a higher return-to-work rate, which is statistically significant at one year, according to a study published online Feb. 16 in Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pain-strategy-ups.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:10:02 EST news249626915 Five women in Belgium have had potentially faulty breast implants made by French firm PIP removed since the beginning of December, the country's health watchdog said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-belgium-pip-implants.html Other Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:43:31 EST news245357004 (AP) -- As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hypnosis-eases-pain-recovery-surgery.html Other Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:35:54 EST news230984868