http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study has found that alcohol consumption directly impacts a person's intention to have unsafe sex. In other words, the more you drink, the stronger becomes your intention to engage in unsafe sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-alcohol-unsafe-sex.html Health Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:20:01 EST news242885070 Evolutionary psychologists suspect that prejudice is rooted in survival: Our distant ancestors had to avoid outsiders who might have carried disease. Research still shows that when people feel vulnerable to illness, they exhibit more bias toward stigmatized groups. But a new study in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science suggests there might be a modern way to break that link. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-vaccination-social-prejudice.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:28:40 EST news241774089 CEOs, teachers, and leaders claim they want creative ideas to solve problems. But creative ideas are rejected all the time. A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people have a hidden bias against creativity. We claim to like creativity, but when we’re feeling uncertain and anxious—just the way you might feel when you’re trying to come up with a creative solution to a problem—we cannot recognize the creative ideas we so desire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hidden-bias-creativity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:10:01 EST news240842976 Official assessments of a doctor's professionalism should be considered carefully before being accepted due to the tendency for some doctors to receive lower scores than others, and the tendency of some groups of patient or colleague assessors to provide lower scores, claims new research published on bmj.com today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-caution-patient-colleague-feedback-doctors.html Other Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:30:31 EST news238995022 A regulatory bias against taking oral anti-cancer medications with food places many patients at increased risk for an overdose and forces them to "flush costly medicines down the toilet," argues Mark Ratain, MD, an authority on cancer-drug dosing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-food-drugs.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:10:02 EST news235669628 Female bosses sometimes have a reputation for not being very nice. Some display what's called "queen bee" behavior, distancing themselves from other women and refusing to help other women as they rise through the ranks. Now, a new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, concludes that it's wrong to blame the woman for this behavior; instead, blame the sexist environment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-myth-queen-bee-sexism.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:13:02 EST news227805148 A clinically extensive and mathematically powerful study of 1000 families with one autistic child and one unaffected sibling has validated a controversial theory of autism's complex genetic causation. The study for the first time estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome -- 250 to 300 -- where gene copy number variation (CNV) can give rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It also sheds new light on the long observed but little understood "gender bias" of autism, an illness that typically manifests by age 3 and affects about four times more boys than girls. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-autism-validates-importance-spontaneous-causal.html Genetics Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:11:23 EST news226757464 Medical students in the United States are frequently exposed to pharmaceutical marketing, even in their preclinical years, and the extent of their contact with industry is associated with positive attitudes about marketing and skepticism towards any negative implications. These findings from research led by Kirsten Austad and Aaron S. Kesselheim from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, suggest that strategies to educate students about interactions with the pharmaceutical industry should directly address widely-held misconceptions about the effects of marketing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-students-substantial-exposure-pharmaceutical.html Other Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:06 EST news225478065 Whites believe that they are replacing blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University's School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that America has not achieved the "post-racial" society that some predicted in the wake of Barack Obama's election. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-whites-victims-racism-blacks.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 23 May 2011 11:40:03 EST news225368696 Commercial funding of continuing medical education (CME) and the potential for bias appear to concern many health care practitioners and researchers, but many reported being unwilling to pay higher fees to eliminate or offset commercial funding sources, according to a report in the May 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-health-professionals-bias-commercially-funded.html Other Mon, 09 May 2011 17:06:05 EST news224179532