http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Telehealth does not seem to be a cost effective addition to standard support and treatment for patients with long term conditions, finds a study published in the BMJ today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-telehealth-effective-patients-term-conditions.html Health Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:30:01 EST news283105249 (Medical Xpress)—More than half of all patients suffering from schizophrenia do not take antipsychotic medication as prescribed, although this is essential for their effective treatment, according to research published today. The main preventable cause of poor symptom control and relapse results from patients not taking their medication as prescribed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-patients-schizophrenia-benefit-adherence-therapy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:40:06 EST news281605474 A study by health economists at the University of York has, for the first time, produced an estimate of the impact on other NHS patients of new and more costly drugs and other treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-patient-reality-nhs-decisions.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:29:04 EST news278249326 Antidepressant prescriptions in the UK have increased by 9.6% in 2011, to 46 million prescriptions. Does this reflect overmedicalisation or appropriate treatment? Two experts debate the issue on BMJ website today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-antidepressants-overprescribed.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:30:07 EST news278098216 Britain's National Health Service may soon offer women at high risk of developing breast cancer drugs normally used to treat the disease as a prevention strategy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-uk-drugs-breast-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:23:45 EST news277460619 New clinical guidelines need to be developed to help doctors provide better care for people with more than one chronic illness, according to a research team led by the University of Dundee. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-guidelines-multimorbidity.html Other Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:14:05 EST news268989239 Healthcare professionals are as bad as patients when it comes to knowing how to use inhalers prescribed for asthma and other respiratory conditions correctly, says an editorial in Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-healthcare-professionals-bad-patients-good.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:30:03 EST news268504686 (Medical Xpress)—People who regularly take medicines, such as aspirin, paracetamol and triptans could be causing themselves more pain than relief. New guidance out today (Wednesday 19 September) from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) advises GPs and other healthcare professionals to consider the possibility of "medication overuse" in their patients who have been taking medicines for up to half of the days in a month, over three months. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-painkillers-headaches.html Medications Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:00:01 EST news267263194 Mayo Clinic today announced that it has completed a multiyear implementation of a new laboratory information system for the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Mayo Medical Laboratories. The new system, which connects Mayo laboratories in Arizona, Minnesota and New England, was developed in collaboration with SCC Soft Computer of Clearwater, Fla. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mayo-clinic-scc-soft-laboratory.html Cancer Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:43:41 EST news255001362 Researchers at the University of York perform evaluations of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of drugs for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-economic-drug-reimbursement-decisions-.html Health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:07:18 EST news248083628 (AP) -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a rule change that critics describe as the health system caving into the "too posh to push" crowd. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-posh-c-sections-demand-uk.html Health Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:55:29 EST news239615716 One in five 11-year-old children is currently defined as obese, and the country faces a potentially huge burden of increased obesity-associated morbidity and early mortality. New research by the University of Bristol has found that despite the health implications of childhood obesity, many GPs remain reluctant to discuss the topic with parents or to refer overweight children to weight reduction services. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gp-parental-reluctance-childhood-obesity.html Health Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:10:01 EST news231040791 The strength of sun cream recently recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to stave off sunburn is far too low and "not in the interests of public health," warns the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-uk-advice-sun-creams-health.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:25:08 EST news226117474 The study, commissioned by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and undertaken by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS), reviewed published studies from between 1990 and 2007 to establish success rates for the NHS smoking cessation services. It found that older smokers are more likely than young smokers to successfully quit, some men appear to be more successful at quitting than women despite the fact that more women attend the smoking cessation services, and more disadvantaged groups face greater challenges when giving up smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-age-gender-social-advantage-affect.html Health Fri, 27 May 2011 10:39:12 EST news225711537