http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Fewer people are dying from cancer in the United States, but a government report published Monday warned that a lack of preventative measures could stem a steady decline in mortality rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-cancer-lacking.html Cancer Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:38:19 EST news276802672 (HealthDay)—The prevalence of open-angle glaucoma has increased more than 20 percent in the last 10 years and currently affects more than 2.7 million Americans age 40 years and older, according to a report from Prevent Blindness America and the National Eye Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-open-angle-glaucoma-percent-years.html Ophthalmology Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:51:54 EST news276277617 A new report released today has shed light on how sport programs for Indigenous youth can help lead to more fulfilling lifestyles for participants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-sport-indigenous-youth.html Health Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:17:34 EST news273399439 A new report by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute shows that the length of the average hospital stay in the United States has increased at the same time as use of medical imaging scans has declined. It is unclear if the trends are related, but potentially important, as hospital admissions are among the largest, and fastest growing, health care costs. More research is needed to assess the potential negative impact of government and private insurer imaging reductions on overall medical costs and patient safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-declining-medical-imaging-hospital.html Other Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:37:22 EST news270214629 What began in the Dentistry lab of Professor Paul Santerre more than a decade ago is now Interface Biologics Inc. (IBI) - a privately-held company poised to transform the market for medical devices in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-newly-additives-surgically-implanted-devices.html Surgery Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:50:48 EST news267263426 The African nation of Niger has ousted Afghanistan as the worst place in the world to be a mother, largely due to hunger, according to an annual report out Tuesday by Save the Children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-niger-worst-mother.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 11:38:12 EST news255695885 US regulators will decide in July whether to approve Qnexa, the first obesity drug in more than a decade, extending the initial deadline by three months, the California-based drug-maker VIVUS said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obesity-drug-july.html Medications Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:15:20 EST news253278870 The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) today announced major changes in how the nation's medical residency programs will be accredited in the years ahead, putting in place an outcomes-based evaluation system where the doctors of tomorrow will be measured for their competency in performing the essential tasks necessary for clinical practice in the 21st century. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-acgme-medical.html Other Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:25:25 EST news249153843 Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced it was acquiring Inhibitex, Inc., a company specializing in treatment of hepatitis C, for $2.5 billion (1.9 billion euros). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-bristol-myers-squibb-inhibitex-billion.html Medications Sun, 08 Jan 2012 06:59:59 EST news245228187 Statens Serum Institut and Aeras today announce the initiation of the first Phase I clinical trial of a new candidate TB vaccine designed to protect people latently infected with TB from developing active TB disease. The trial is being conducted by the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) at its field site in Worcester, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Dr. Hassan Mahomed is the principal investigator. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-vaccine-latent-tb-clinical.html Medications Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:19:29 EST news241928360 Australian scientists have developed a new technique using stem cells, in the hope to replace damaged cells in Parkinson's disease. The technique could be developed for application in other degenerative conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-stem-cell-brain-parkinson-disease.html Medical research Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:07:54 EST news240235667 For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts for kidney dialysis, and potentially to improve treatment for children with heart defects and adults needing coronary or other bypass graft surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-patients-lab-grown-blood-vessels-donor.html Cardiology Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:00:01 EST news228392650