http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Shootings and other traumatic events involving children are not rare events, but there's a startling lack of scientific evidence on the best ways to help young survivors and witnesses heal, a government-funded analysis found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-traumatized-kids-lacking.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:08:37 EST news279778106 An international team of sleep researchers has developed the world's first screening tool to help reduce workplace accidents and illnesses, including cardiovascular disease and cancer, caused by shift work. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-shifting-safety-overnight-workers.html Health Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:15:23 EST news273751920 (AP)—A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-tobacco-companies-lied.html Health Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:04:23 EST news273261851 Medical screening of older drivers is misguided and typifies a "worrying lack of due diligence" by the medical profession, warns a senior doctor in BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-medical-screening-older-drivers-misguided.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:30:04 EST news267808113 (HealthDay)—More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes, making suicide the leading cause of injury deaths, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-suicide-americans-car.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:40:01 EST news267382998 Despite the fact that car crashes are the leading cause of death for children older than three years in the U.S. and send more than 140,000 children to the emergency room each year, new research has found that low proportions of U.S. children are using age-appropriate safety restraints and many are placed at risk by riding in the front seat. The research is published in the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-kids-safety-restraints-cars.html Health Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:02 EST news263489625 Underage female drinkers have been at a growing risk of fatal car crashes in recent years -- so much that they've caught up with their male counterparts, according to a study in the May issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-young-women-drunk-driving.html Addiction Tue, 03 Apr 2012 03:46:22 EST news252643542 In the first study to investigate driving as it relates to teens with a high-functioning autism disorder (HFASD), child development and teen driving experts at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Center for Child Injury Prevention Studies found that two-thirds of teenagers with a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) who are of legal driving age in their state are currently driving or plan to drive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-teens-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:10:36 EST news245329819 (AP) -- The toll of excessive drinking works out to about $2 per drink, in terms of medical expenses and other costs to society, according to a new federal research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cdc-shot-excessive.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:06:32 EST news238075585 (Medical Xpress) -- Traumatic brain injury has entered the public's consciousness as the silent, signature wound brought back by many of our military warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. But such injuries don't only happen in warfare, they happen to civilians too. Think car crashes, a slip and fall, two football players colliding helmet to helmet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-traumatic-brain-injury-parkinson-disease.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:03:57 EST news233218995 (AP) -- Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-grandparents-safer-drivers-mom-dad.html Other Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:40:01 EST news230188161 (Medical Xpress) -- A new computer screening tool developed and patented by a University at Buffalo physician is helping to detect severe obstructive sleep apnea in cardiovascular patients who have not yet been diagnosed with this common and potentially dangerous condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-screens-heart-disease-patients-severe.html Sleep apnea Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:12:07 EST news226667493