http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)— New guidelines on testing newborns and children for genetic diseases recommend screening for childhood diseases but note that testing for diseases that strike in adulthood may not be worthwhile. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-guidelines-issued-genetic-screening-newborns.html Genetics Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:30:01 EST news280673783 (Medical Xpress)—The assumption that childhood cancer in developing countries is prohibitively expensive to treat is challenged by new research contributed to by the University of Sydney. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-childhood-cancer-countries-expensive-believed.html Cancer Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:08:20 EST news273740887 (Medical Xpress)—In a new study appearing this month in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers have unlocked the complex cellular mechanics that instruct specific brain cells to continue to divide. This discovery overcomes a significant technical hurdle to potential human stem cell therapies; ensuring that an abundant supply of cells is available to study and ultimately treat people with diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-endless-myelin-forming-cells.html Neuroscience Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:14:08 EST news270987227 A study released today by the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has identified the most feasible and impactful solutions for Nigeria's immunization program that could offer the best hope yet for scaling up vaccine access to the nation's most rural areas and taking aim at the country's precipitous number of child deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-solutions-nigeria-childhood-mortality-crisis.html Health Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:05:42 EST news253451136 In the early 2000s, the international aid community started to fund health programs through Global Health Initiatives (GHIs) which provide aid and support for tackling infectious diseases, and for implementing immunization programs against childhood diseases. However priorities set by GHIs and by governments are not always the same. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Globalization and Health uses 'agency theory' to examine the conflicts between donor and recipient countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-aid.html Health Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:52:25 EST news228966718 Scientists from the University of Utah and Omicia, Inc., a privately held company developing tools to interpret personal genome sequences, today announced the publication in Genome Research of a new software tool called VAAST, the Variant Annotation, Analysis and Selection Tool, a probabilistic disease-causing mutation finder for individual human genomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-software-rapid-identification-disease-causing-gene.html Genetics Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:11:41 EST news228053478