http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The risk of acute kidney disease is doubled for people taking oral fluoroquinolone antibiotics, according to a study of published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-kidney-disease-fluoroquinolone-antibiotics.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:00:03 EST news289478220 (HealthDay)—New labeling laws for sunscreen will help American consumers choose the product that provides the best sun protection, experts say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-sunscreen.html Health Fri, 10 May 2013 14:40:01 EST news287413993 Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), or the formation of scar tissue in the eye, is a serious, sight-threatening complication in people recovering from surgical repair of retinal detachment. PVR is difficult to predict, lacks effective treatment options, and substantially reduces an individual's quality of life. Each year 55,000 people are at risk for developing PVR in the United States alone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ranibizumab-retinal-detachment-side-effect.html Ophthalmology Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:40:05 EST news284719198 Minocycline, an older, broad-spectrum antibiotic in the tetracycline family, provides meaningful improvements as a therapeutic for children with fragile X syndrome, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute has found. The finding is important, the researchers said, because minocycline is a targeted treatment for the condition that is readily available by prescription. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-minocycline-antibiotic-behavior-children-fragile.html Pediatrics Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:00:02 EST news284658995 (HealthDay)—Black children are less likely to be prescribed antibiotics and to be diagnosed with conditions that require antibiotics, even when treated by the same doctor, according to research published online March 18 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-black-children-antibiotics.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:30:02 EST news282833692 Following hospitalization for heart attacks, heart failure, or pneumonia, patients are at high risk of being readmitted for a broad spectrum of medical conditions in the month following hospital discharge, research at Yale School of Medicine shows. The study appears in the Jan. 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-readmissions-frequent-month-hospital-discharge.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:00:13 EST news278091156 Farmworkers are at potential risk from food and waterborne illnesses because of the condition of cooking and eating facilities available to them, according to a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-inadequate-food-facilities-nc-migrant.html Health Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:00:03 EST news277653633 After recently announcing success in eliminating melanoma metastasis in laboratory experiments, scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center have made another important discovery in understanding the process by which the gene mda-9/syntenin contributes to metastasis in melanoma (the spread of skin cancer) and possibly a variety of other cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-deadly-skin-cancer-body.html Cancer Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:07:02 EST news276440810 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified the origin of an epidemic strain of Clostridium difficile (027) and its mode of spread using tagging genetic signatures in the DNA of bacteria, some of them associated with its increased virulence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-scientists-bacterial-strain-severe-clostridium.html Genetics Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:00:04 EST news275294448 (Medical Xpress)—Covering up and staying out of the sun for prolonged periods of time, especially in the middle of the day, is still the best way to protect ourselves from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation, claims a University of Sydney researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-screening-sun.html Cancer Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:14:40 EST news272621671 (Medical Xpress)—Parents: Want to help ensure your children turn out to be happy and socially well adjusted? Bond with them when they are infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-parent-behavioral-emotional-benefits-child.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:47:34 EST news269182045 Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited with a role in their production and in the body's overall immune response, but scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say a hormone previously associated only with maintaining calcium homeostasis and bone health is also critical, boosting AMP expression when dietary vitamin D levels are inadequate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-hormone-role-skin-infections.html Medical research Wed, 23 May 2012 14:00:16 EST news256995631 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified new targets for drugs that could potentially treat anthrax, the deadly infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-potential-anthrax-drug.html Medical research Wed, 09 May 2012 04:27:34 EST news255756442 Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered a new stem cell in the adult brain. These cells can proliferate and form several different cell types - most importantly, they can form new brain cells. Scientists hope to take advantage of the finding to develop methods to heal and repair disease and injury in the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-stem-cell-brain.html Medical research Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:30:01 EST news254136349 When poet Walt Whitman wrote that we "contain multitudes," he was speaking metaphorically, but he was correct in the literal sense. Every human being carries over 100 trillion individual bacterial cells within the intestine -- ten times more cells than comprise the body itself. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-weapons-allergies-gut-bacteria-allergic.html Immunology Sun, 25 Mar 2012 13:58:58 EST news251902727 Organizations in the Chicago area report an increase of health-improvement and wellness programs according to a survey conducted in September 2011 by Aon Hewitt in partnership with Rush Health. The survey results will be released at the 9th annual Employer Symposium at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago on Thursday, March 22. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-employer-sponsored-wellness.html Health Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:56:31 EST news251632575 Mayo Clinic researchers have trained mouse immune systems to eradicate skin cancer from within, using a genetic combination of human DNA from melanoma cells and a cousin of the rabies virus. The strategy, called cancer immunotherapy, uses a genetically engineered version of the vesicular stomatitis virus to deliver a broad spectrum of genes derived from melanoma cancer cells directly into tumors. In early studies, 60 percent of tumor-burdened mice were cured in fewer than three months and with minimal side effects. Results of the latest study appear this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-melanoma-vaccine-combat-skin-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:13:39 EST news251374412 In a study published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Katherine Rice and colleagues, from the Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Emory University School of Medicine, used eye-tracking technology to measure the relationship between cognitive and social disability in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and the ability of children with ASD to pay attention to social interactions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-eye-tracking-reveals-variability-successful-social.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:04:22 EST news249559455 Short-term use of the antibiotic cefpodoxime for the treatment of women with uncomplicated cystitis (bladder infection) did not meet criteria for noninferiority for achieving clinical cure compared with ciprofloxacin, a drug in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics for which there have been concerns about overuse and a resulting increase in resistance rates, according to a study in the February 8 issue of JAMA. The criteria for noninferiority was if the efficacy of cefpodoxime had been shown to be within a pre-specified margin of 10 percent of the efficacy of ciprofloxacin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-antibiotic-option-bladder-infection-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:41:24 EST news247855241 Most athletes can testify to the pain-relieving, recovery-promoting effects of massage. Now there's a scientific basis that supports booking a session with a massage therapist: On the cellular level massage reduces inflammation and promotes the growth of new mitochondria in skeletal muscle. The research, involving scientists from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario appears in the February 1st online edition of Science Translational Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-massage-inflammation-strenuous.html Health Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:00:01 EST news247323372 Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a new laboratory test that can rapidly identify the bacterium responsible for staph infections. This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with specific bacteriophage amplification to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-laboratory-method-mass-spectrometry-rapidly.html Medical research Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:50:01 EST news245586293 Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Injury Research and Prevention studied nearly 1,000 1- to 8-year-old children involved in crashes and found no evidence of increased injury risk for children across a broad weight range. All of the children included in the study were properly restrained in the correct child safety seat or booster seat for their height and weight. The research also suggests that the current range of child safety seats and booster seats available today sufficiently accommodates a broad spectrum of children's body sizes, including children with higher weights. The results are published online in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-experts-car-seats-overweight-kids.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:48:49 EST news241804063 Children who started eating fish before nine months of age are less likely to suffer from pre-school wheeze, but face a higher risk if they were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life or their mother took paracetamol during pregnancy. Those are the key findings from a large-scale Swedish study published in the December issue of Acta Paediatrica. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-babies-fish-months-pre-school-wheeze.html Health Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:55:11 EST news241181703 (AP) -- Some 38 percent of Europeans, or 165 million people, suffer from mental illness or neurological disorders on a broad spectrum ranging from anxiety to dementia, a new study published Tuesday says. Most are not being treated, though some experts said many may not need psychiatric help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-europeans-mental-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:10:29 EST news234533418 The use of Acute Care Emergency Surgical Service (ACCESS) in emergency departments (EDs) can lead to significant reductions in key patient measures, such as length of stay, surgical decision-making time and "time-to-stretcher" (one measure of overall ED overcrowding), according to a study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. Emergency departments are a crucial point of access to the health care system for patients with a broad spectrum of injuries and illnesses, and overcrowding has been identified as a widespread and serious problem with adverse consequences, both in the United States and Canada. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-urgent-emergency-departments-surgical-decision.html Other Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:40:02 EST news232034790 Just like intelligence agents watching for the real terrorists threatening to attack, monitoring healthcare worker adherence to mandatory hand-washing protocols via hand-washing squads in hospitals can go a long way to stop outbreaks of the opportunistic C. diff bacteria, says Irena Kenneley, an infection prevention and control expert and assistant professor of nursing from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-combating-diff-terrorists-loose-hospitals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 19 May 2011 14:19:11 EST news225033531