http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—An ingredient used for decades in cough syrup, and to treat a variety of conditions, could hold the key to improving memory, language, and learning in people with Down syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-syndrome-trial-key.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:04:26 EST news283503858 The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-left-youths-special-depression.html Pediatrics Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:33:53 EST news254903612 A major study of the relationships between maternal metabolic conditions and the risk that a child will be born with a neurodevelopmental disorder has found strong links between maternal diabetes and obesity and the likelihood of having a child with autism or another developmental disability. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-maternal-obesity-diabetes-autism-developmental.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EST news253087182 In the first North American study to examine population rates of Emergency Department (ED) use for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found 55 per cent of adults with IDD and mental illness visited the ED at least once in a 2 year period and 15.6 per cent visited at least 5 times. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-north-american-ed-adults-intellectual.html Health Fri, 13 May 2011 10:22:25 EST news224500928