http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses which replace the root. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón have developed an implant coating with a novel biodegradable material aimed at people with bone deficit. It will also increase the overall success rate of implants through an enhanced biocompatibility and reduce the time of osseointegration or bone integration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-success-tooth-implants.html Dentistry Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:28:22 EST news286446495 (HealthDay)—There is a lack of communication between doctors and their elderly patients about end-of-life plans, a new Canadian study reveals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-doctors-dont-end-of-life.html Health Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:40:01 EST news284052396 Elderly or people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have had cancer are sometimes not eligible to receive dental implants as their bones are unable to correctly integrate the new prostheses which replace the root. Researchers at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) in Castellón have developed an implant coating with a novel biodegradable material aimed at people with bone deficit. It will also increase the overall success rate of implants through an enhanced biocompatibility and reduce the time of osseointegration or bone integration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-success-tooth-implants.html Medical research Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:33:22 EST news277979596 Asthmatic children in New York City neighborhoods with high rates of asthma make many more visits to the emergency room (ER) than those who live in other parts of the city. While socioeconomic factors such as lack of adequate preventive care are part of the equation (high-asthma neighborhoods tend to be lower income), new research points to a possible biological basis for the disparity. Asthmatic children living in asthma hotspots were twice as likely to experience a common symptom known as exercise-induced wheeze than were those in neighborhoods with lower asthma rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-kids-asthma-hotspots-nyc-er.html Pediatrics Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:20:01 EST news274903068 Peter Yeates, M.B.B.S., M.Clin.Ed., of the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, and colleagues conducted a study to examine whether observations of the performance of postgraduate year 1 physicians influence raters' scores of subsequent performances. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bias-medical-trainees.html Other Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:00:01 EST news273856518 A research team reported that next generation sequencing of the exome, the 1 to 2% of the DNA containing the genes that code for proteins, enabled the identification of the genetic causes of unexplained intellectual disability in over 50% of patients in a study conducted at Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unexplained-intellectual-disability-state-of-the-art-genetic.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:07 EST news271583182 Lead scientist Professor Simon Cutting, from the School of Biological Sciences at Royal Holloway, has developed the jabs through the use of probiotic spores. He carried out fundamental studies into the biology of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis which attracted the attention of microbiologists due to its ability to form spores that can last millions of years before germinating under the appropriate environmental conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-next-generation-vaccineseliminating-needles.html Medications Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:30:02 EST news270213551 Pulmonary nodules are common, but few studies of lung nodule identification and clinical evaluation have been performed in community settings. Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Southern California identified 7,112 patients who had one or more nodules by using existing information within the electronic medical record. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-method-lung-nodules.html Cancer Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:24:06 EST news261649427 Routine screening with echocardiogram can detect three times as many cases of rheumatic heart disease (RHD) as clinical examinations, offering a novel approach in preventing this common disease, according to a new study in Circulation. The study, conducted by cardiologists from Children's National Medical Center, is the largest single-population study in Africa. The August issue of Nature Reviews - Cardiology features a summary of the article in its Public Health feature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-echocardiogram-screenings-effective-rheumatic-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:20:01 EST news258658302 Greater purpose in life may help stave off the harmful effects of plaques and tangles associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center. The study, published in the May issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, is available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-purpose-life-brain-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:22 EST news255611237 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have shown that an injectable solution can protect mice from an otherwise lethal overdose of cocaine. The findings could lead to human clinical trials of a treatment designed to reverse the effects of cocaine in case of emergency. Cocaine is involved in more than 400,000 emergency-room visits and about 5,000 overdose deaths each year in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-antidote-cocaine-overdose-lab.html Medications Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:29:41 EST news253970959 (HealthDay) -- Contiguous, multilevel disc degeneration (CMDD) is associated with increased likelihood of low back pain (LBP) and pain severity compared with skipped level disc degeneration (SLDD), according to a study published in the April 1 issue of Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pattern-disc-degeneration-impacts-pain.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:30:02 EST news253423141 A new study by Dr. Andrew Krahn shows that over a quarter of unexplained cardiac arrests occurred after the patient had an event of fainting, known as syncope. According to Dr. Krahn, a Cardiologist at London Health Sciences Centre and a Scientist at Lawson Health Research Institute, more than half of the fainting episodes had characteristics that would point to a serious heart rhythm problem, based on a simple fainting questionnaire that can be administered in a doctor's office or emergency room. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fainting-factor-cardiac.html Cardiology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:54:59 EST news248014486 Adding pertuzumab to a combination of trastuzumab and docetaxel chemotherapy extended progression-free survival by a median of 6.1 months in patients with metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer compared with patients who received the combination therapy with placebo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-dual-her2-blockade-significantly-progression-free.html Cancer Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:53:03 EST news242538772 Patients who are fed more calories while in intensive care have lower mortality rates than those who receive less of their daily-prescribed calories, according to a recent study of data from the largest critical care nutrition database in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-calorific-controversy-intensive-patients.html Health Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:29:54 EST news236960457