http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Making headway against a major public health threat, Dartmouth College researchers have invented the first ever secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time, a new study in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-real-secondhand-sensor.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 13:24:32 EST news282918199 (HealthDay)—A program to administer asthma medication each day to urban children with asthma reduces symptoms and is cost-effective, according to research published online Feb. 11 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-urban-school-based-asthma-treatment-cost-effective.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:50:01 EST news279891921 (Medical Xpress) -- A mysterious disease that has killed nearly 60 children in Cambodia has been identified by the World Health Organization as enterovirus 71. This virus is one among a family of viruses that causes a variety of illnesses, including a common childhood illness called hand, foot and mouth disease. However, Andrew Bonwit, MD, pediatric infectious disease specialist at Loyola University Health System, said a fatal outcome from such illness is rare. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-foot-mouth-disease-outbreak-loyola.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:50:01 EST news261217564 (AP) — A deadly form of a common childhood illness has been linked to the mysterious child deaths in Cambodia that sparked alarm after a cause could not immediately be determined, health officials said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-cambodia-deaths-tied-common-child.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jul 2012 04:16:27 EST news261026179 Scientists and doctors from the University of Sheffield are developing two novel devices that could lead to the improved prediction of premature births. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-devices-key-premature-births.html Health Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:43:54 EST news248355823 Dr Hannah Newton, an historian of science with an interest in how previous generations coped with childhood illness, digs up some 17th century tips for making medicine taste better and finds evidence for common sense and compassion among the doctors of the day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-spoonful-sugar-bitter-blocker.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:10:01 EST news247826070 (AP) -- Vietnam says an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease has killed 156 people, mostly children, and sickened more than 96,000 through late November. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-foot-mouth-disease-vietnam.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:26:17 EST news243228359