http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Roughly three in 10 diagnostic accuracy studies published in journals with impact factors of four or higher have overinterpretation, according to a review published in the May issue of Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-overinterpretation-common-diagnostic-accuracy.html Cancer Wed, 15 May 2013 19:30:01 EST news287860868 Ever find yourself racking your brain on a Monday morning to remember where you put your car keys? When you do find those keys, you can thank the hippocampus, a brain region responsible for storing and retrieving memories of different environments-such as that room where your keys were hiding in an unusual spot. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-neuroscience-lost-keys.html Neuroscience Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:26:00 EST news283076722 Alcohol consumption could be much higher than previously thought, with more than three quarters of people in England drinking in excess of the recommended daily alcohol limit, according to a new paper in the European Journal of Public Health. The study, conducted by researchers in the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, is the first to investigate the potential public health implications related to the under-reporting of alcohol consumption. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-alcohol-consumption-higher-england.html Addiction Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:00:12 EST news281124861 How does being in a position of power at work, with friends, or in a romantic relationship influence well-being? While we might like to believe the stereotype that power leads to unhappiness or loneliness, new research indicates that this stereotype is largely untrue: Being in a position of power may actually make people happier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-power-good-life-closer-true.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:20:12 EST news278612403 Kidney transplants performed in Europe are considerably more successful in the long run than those performed in the United States. While the one-year survival rate is 90% in both Europe and the United States, after five years, 77% of the donor kidneys in Europe still function, while in the United States, this rate among white Americans is only 71%. After ten years, graft survival for the two groups is 56% versus 46%, respectively. The lower survival rates compared to Europe also apply to Hispanic Americans, in whom 48% of the transplanted kidneys still function after ten years, and particularly to African Americans, whose graft survival is a mere 33%. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-kidney-grafts-function-longer-europe.html Other Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:01:20 EST news269258461 (HealthDay) -- Even for conditions with a high pediatric disease burden, only a small proportion of clinical drug trials study pediatric patients, according to research published online July 23 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-children-underrepresented-drug-trials.html Pediatrics Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:11:55 EST news262285903 (Medical Xpress) -- More than half of factory workers who thought they had excellent or good hearing actually suffered hearing loss and didn't even recognize the problem, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-fine.html Health Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:10:07 EST news261216599 Does being an intense mother make women unhappy? According to a new study by Kathryn Rizzo and colleagues, from the University of Mary Washington in the US, women who believe in intensive parenting - i.e., that women are better parents than men, that mothering should be child-centred, and that children should be considered sacred and are fulfilling to parents - are more likely to have negative mental health outcomes. The work is published online in Springer's Journal of Child and Family Studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-parenthood-paradox-parenting-beliefs-detrimental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:15:41 EST news260705734 Social jetlag -- a syndrome related to the mismatch between the body's internal clock and the realities of our daily schedules -- does more than make us sleepy. It is also contributing to the growing tide of obesity, according to a large-scale epidemiological study reported online on May 10 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-social-jetlag-real-health-hazard.html Medical research Thu, 10 May 2012 12:00:04 EST news255869118 In a discovery that could help instructors better teach deaf children, a team of University of Chicago researchers has found that a gesture-sign mismatch made while explaining a math problem suggests that a deaf child is experiencing a teachable moment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-deaf-children-gesture-mismatches-clues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:49:55 EST news252841708 In the most comprehensive study to date to examine the effects of soy on menopause, researchers have found that two daily servings of soy can reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes by up to 26 percent, compared to a placebo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-soy-alleviate-hot-menopause-large-scale.html Other Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:54:54 EST news252776436 (HealthDay) -- For patients with early rheumatoid arthritis, there is a discrepancy between disease activity and disability, with women experiencing more disability than men, according to a Swedish study published online March 5 in Arthritis Care & Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discrepancy-disease-disability-early-ra.html Inflammatory disorders Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:13:35 EST news251183606 A comprehensive study in this week's PLoS Medicine shows levels of the amino acid, homocysteine, have no meaningful effect on the risk of developing coronary heart disease, closing the door on the previously suggested benefits of lowering homocysteine with folate acid once and for all. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-high-blood-homocysteine-linked-coronary.html Cardiology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:00:08 EST news249063402 Patient satisfaction is increasingly recognized as an important component of quality of care. To achieve a high level of patient satisfaction, providers need to identify and address patients' expectations. However, a new international survey conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School reveals that while clinicians think it is important to ask patients about their expectations, they often fail to do so and consequently may not respond adequately. This research is published in the November issue of the British Medical Journal: Quality and Safety and was selected as the Editor's choice, making it available online in full text at no cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-uncovering-patient-satisfaction-international-survey.html Other Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:26:38 EST news238753579 Residents who attend conferences that focus on missed or misinterpreted cases are 67% less likely to miss important findings when reading on-call musculoskeletal x-ray images, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-resident-conferences-focus-result-higher.html Other Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:21:45 EST news235909294 New research from the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) highlights the need to make prisoners more aware of voluntary organisations that could help them towards resettlement. The report shows that despite the relatively high number of third sector organisations working within prisons, many are not known by prisoners. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-prisoners-greater-awareness-voluntary.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:20:03 EST news231070580 A national survey has found that more than one in twenty Australian workers report using alcohol while at work or just before work, and more than one in fifty report taking drugs during or just before work. These findings, published online today in the journal Addiction, have implications for workplace safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-safety-issue-revealed-australian-workers.html Health Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:26:21 EST news228450370