http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Women stand a much better chance of becoming centenarians than men do, a new U.S. Census Bureau report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-women-men-census.html Health Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:10:01 EST news274456406 Health is an important part of development, with links to how children do cognitively and academically, and it's a strong predictor of adult health and productivity. A new study of low-income families in the United States has found that children's health and access to health care services differ according to the immigrant status of their parents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-children-health-access-differ-parents.html Health Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:01 EST news266516240 Eighty-nine million Americans were without health insurance for at least one month during the period from 2004 to 2007, and 23 million lost coverage more than once during that time, according to researchers at Penn State and Harvard University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-million-people-medically-uninsured-.html Health Thu, 09 Aug 2012 09:34:26 EST news263723657 According to the United States Census Bureau, approximately one in seven American adults live alone. Social isolation and lack of social support have been linked to poor health outcomes. Now a new study at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) shows that living alone may be a risk factor for death, especially death due to cardiovascular problems, such as heart attack and stroke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-people-heart-problems-death.html Cardiology Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:00:02 EST news259249140 (HealthDay) -- Although the plague is typically considered a remnant of the Middle Ages, when unsanitary conditions and rodent infestations prevailed amid the squalor of poverty, this rare but deadly disease appears to be spreading through wealthier communities in New Mexico, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-plague-rare-surfacing-affluent-areas.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:34:13 EST news258829959 A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-income-inequality-deaths.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 16:15:26 EST news255712299 A new research survey conducted by the Center for the Study of Asian American Health at NYU Langone Medical Center shows the Bangladeshi community in New York City experiences numerous barriers to diabetes care because of limited English proficiency and lack of diabetes awareness. The study, published in the March 2012 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, also found the Bangladeshi community has an interest in participating in community health programs for diabetes prevention and care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-barriers-diabetes-nyc-bangladeshi.html Diabetes Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:38:06 EST news250943879 (HealthDay) -- If current trends continue, health insurance premiums will surpass the median U.S. household income in 2033, a new study says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-premiums-surpass-median-household.html Health Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:48:20 EST news250793293 (Medical Xpress) -- An estimated 9.3 million American adults lost health insurance coverage as a result of increased unemployment during the recession of 2007-09, according to a newly published study by researchers at Cornell, Indiana and Carnegie Mellon universities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-million-adults-lost-health-coverage.html Health Fri, 09 Dec 2011 03:52:46 EST news242625156 The number of young people becoming registered nurses has grown sharply since 2002, a trend that should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-nursing-shortage-easing.html Other Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:33:05 EST news242325179 New research from the National Center for Family and Marriage Research (NCFMR) at Bowling Green State University shows there is substantial variation in the first-time divorce rate when it is broken down by race and education. But, there is also evidence that a college degree has a protective effect against divorce among all races. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-first-time-divorce-tied.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:48:05 EST news239557663 Nearly half of all adults over 20 will experience at least one lower urinary tract symptom by 2018 - an estimated 2.3 billion people and a worldwide increase of 18% in just one decade - according to research in the October issue of the urology journal BJUI. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-world-adults-urinary-tract-symptoms.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:50:34 EST news236335816 While mammography rates have improved among foreign-born women residing in the United States, these women are still less likely to have undergone breast cancer screening than native-born U.S. women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-mammography-immigrants.html Cancer Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:18:49 EST news235660708 Despite the implementation of the Massachusetts health care reform designed to bolster employer-based insurance and to provide no-cost or low-cost insurance to those unable to afford it, the uninsured in Massachusetts remain predominantly the working poor, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard Medical School just published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-uninsured-patients-mass-poor-state.html Health Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:26:04 EST news235650348 The estimates of the population without health insurance in the United States remained unchanged in 2010, as compared to 2009, reflecting the counteracting effects of not only the sluggish economic recovery but also the preliminary benefits of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), says Timothy McBride, PhD, leading health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-tug-of-war-economy-health-reform.html Health Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:03:44 EST news235213408 A new supplemental issue of The Gerontologist urges aging researchers to include representative samples of ethnically diverse populations in their work. The publication also identifies research priorities for moving the science of recruitment and retention forward, in addition to providing several strategies that scholars can employ in their work. The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that non-white minorities will make up 42 percent of the country's 65-and-over population by 2050. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-minority-crucial-effective-aging.html Other Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:49:59 EST news230471385