http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on Thursday said H7N9 bird flu posed an "exceptional situation" as the outbreak among Chinese poultry claimed a 10th human victim. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-animal-health-agency-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:10:01 EST news284896583 There are cells in your brain that recognize very specific places, and have that as one of their main jobs. These cells, called place cells, are found in an area behind your temple called the hippocampus. While these cells must be sent information from nearby cells to do their job, so far no one has been able to determine exactly what kind of nerve cells, or neurons, work with place cells to craft the code they create for each location. Neurons come in many different types with specialized functions. Some respond to edges and borders, others to specific locations, others act like a compass and react to which way you turn your head. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-scientists-cells-brain-flipping-neural.html Neuroscience Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:00:07 EST news284300102 A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-defeated-globally-eradication.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:28:24 EST news281103994 If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous country in the world, just after China and India. Thus, there can be little doubt that population mobility is among the leading policy issues of the 21st century. However, policies to protect migrants and global health have so far been hampered by inadequate policy attention and poor international coordination. This is the conclusion of a new article in PLoS Medicine arguing that current policy-making on migration and health has been conducted within sector silos, which frequently have different goals. Yet, population mobility is wholly compatible with health-promoting strategies for migrants if decision-makers coordinate across borders and policy sectors, say the authors, who are also serving as guest editors of a new series in PLoS Medicine on migration & health that launches this week. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-migration-overlooked-health-policy-issue.html Health Tue, 24 May 2011 17:55:28 EST news225478514