http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. including supermarkets, drinks companies, and trade associations – distorted international evidence on effective alcohol control measures in an attempt to influence the Scottish Government's public health policy to its advantage, according to a study published today in PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-reveals-alcohol-industry-tactics-policy.html Health Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:09 EST news285955123 (Medical Xpress)—A new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer to produce and easier to store has been developed by scientists from the University of Oxford and The Pirbright Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-foot-and-mouth-vaccine-huge-advance-global.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:14:21 EST news283673643 Death rates from malaria have fallen significantly over the last decade, but plenty of work remains, with hundreds of thousands of children still dying from the disease every year, experts said Wednesday in a discussion at Harvard Kennedy School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-sides-experts-explore-business.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:20:04 EST news279189608 The largest study of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa to date reveals that programmes to control parasitic diseases and access to better antenatal care could substantially reduce the prevalence of the disease in this region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-parasites-poor-antenatal-main-epilepsy.html Neuroscience Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:00:02 EST news278789821 Mass poultry vaccination programmes introduced to combat Salmonella infections have led to a dramatic fall in the number of cases since the late 1990s, according to a researcher at the University of Liverpool. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-vaccination-responsible-fall-salmonella-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:23:26 EST news277550600 High cigarette prices, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and other measures, all part of Brazil's strong tobacco control policies, are credited for a 50 percent reduction in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010. The reduction contributed to an estimated 420,000 lives saved during that time period. Those are the findings of a new study published today in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-strong-tobacco-policies-brazil-credited.html Health Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:16 EST news271417538 Patients admitted to hospital with obstructed heart arteries were three times more likely to experience complications when they were in hospital if they felt they were not in control of their condition, according to research published in the October issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-affects-complication-patients-acute-coronary.html Cardiology Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:27:21 EST news266758036 (HealthDay)—A new report shows that a deadly swine flu virus can infect ferrets, highlighting the importance of continuous surveillance of emerging flu strains. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-powerful-swine-flu-strain-korea.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:00:01 EST news266517454 Oregon investigators recently mapped the trail of an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug among participants in a girls' soccer tournament to a reusable open top grocery bag stored in a hotel bathroom. Their findings, which illustrate the role that inanimate objects can play in spreading norovirus infection, appear in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-role-reusable-grocery-bag-norovirus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:01 EST news255712002 (HealthDay) -- Tuberculosis rates fell to an all-time low in the United States in 2011, but the disease continues to disproportionately infect racial and ethnic minorities, those who are foreign-born and people infected with HIV, federal officials reported Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-tuberculosis-cases-cdc.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:58:08 EST news251650621 (AP) -- The head of the World Health Organization urged China on Tuesday to bolster controls on tobacco in a country where half of adult males smoke. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-urges-china-bolster-tobacco.html Health Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:46:27 EST news251462780 A new research report appearing in the March 2012 issue of the journal Genetics shows why the development of a cure and new treatments for HIV has been so difficult. In the report, an Australian scientist explains how he used computer simulations to discover that a population starting from a single human immunodeficiency virus can evolve fast enough to escape immune defenses. These results are novel because the discovery runs counter to the commonly held belief that evolution under these circumstances is very slow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-simulations-hiv-elusive.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:51:10 EST news251023845 A type of bacteria mostly found in raw chicken meat that can cause diarrhoea and fever is on the rise in the European Union, according to a report from European food safety agencies published on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-raw-chicken-bacteria-europe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:00:03 EST news250418222 The US Senate on Thursday rejected an attempt to exempt employers who cite moral objections to birth control measures from having to follow new health insurance rules proposed by President Barack Obama. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-senate-birth-amendment.html Health Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:24:11 EST news249837842 Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent of all infection outbreaks and 65 percent of ward closures in U.S. hospitals during a two-year period, according to a new study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the official publication of APIC - the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-norovirus-infection-outbreaks-hospitals.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:30:50 EST news247231831 Access to sanitation facilities, such as latrines, reduces by half the risk of becoming infected by parasitic worms that are transmitted via soil (soil-transmitted helminths) according to a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine. These findings are important as infection with parasitic worms can cause diarrhea, weakness, and malnutrition, which in turn can impair physical and mental development in children; they reinforce the importance of increased access to sanitation (a Millennium Development Goal target) to improve health outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-availability-sanitation-likelihood-parasitic-worm.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:01 EST news246643829 A new study published in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reports that hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection increases length of stay in hospital by an average of six days. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-difficile-lengthens-hospital-days.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:37:28 EST news242311035 (Medical Xpress) -- Skin cells shed from livestock infected with foot and mouth disease could very well spread the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-foot-mouth-disease-skin-cells.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 May 2011 08:03:55 EST news224233400