http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study by a Rhode Island Hospital researcher has found that traumatic brain injury (TBI) can significantly increase the odds of having major depression, personality impulsivity and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). The paper, by W. Curt LaFrance Jr., M.D., M.P.H., director of neuropsychiatry and behavioral neurology, is published online in advance of print in the journal Epilepsia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-traumatic-brain-injury-worsens-outcomes.html Neuroscience Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:03:48 EST news284655821 US health authorities are liaising with domestic and international partners to develop a vaccine for the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed five people in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-health-authorities-bird-flu-vaccine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:10:21 EST news284357412 (Medical Xpress)—About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-divorce-thousands-women-health-coverage.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:13:13 EST news271959177 Despite the great promise that injecting a new type of anti-inflammatory pain medicine into the spine could relieve the severe leg and lower back pain of sciatica, a Johns Hopkins-led study has found that the current standard of care with steroid injections still does better. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-etanercept-genetically-compound-pain.html Medical research Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:00:04 EST news253810062 New research shows that older Americans with cirrhosis have significantly worse health status and greater functional disability compared to those without this potentially deadly disease. In fact, findings now published in Hepatology, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that elderly patients with cirrhosis require twice the amount of informal caregiving and contribute added strain on the health care system. Given the increase in obesity and aging of those with hepatitis C (HCV), researchers expect the prevalence of cirrhosis to climb in this frail population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-high-disability-health-older-americans.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:40:59 EST news245428829