http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Five Saudis who died after contracting a new SARS-like virus last week had not travelled abroad, a health ministry doctor said on Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-saudi-victims-sars-like-virus-didnt.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 05 May 2013 05:44:40 EST news286951474 With the help of a warning system which measures the risk of dengue incidence using precipitation and air temperature, it is possible to forecast the outbreak of dengue fever up to 16 weeks in advance. This is what Yien Ling Hii concludes in the dissertation she is defending at Umeå University in Sweden on 3 May. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-outbreaks-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:50:03 EST news286446411 (AP)—House Republicans have put off a vote on legislation to rescue a main feature of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul—affordable coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions—after it ran into strong opposition from both conservatives and Democrats. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-house-gop-health.html Health Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:29:43 EST news286043378 (Medical Xpress)—Oral supplementation of glutathione is effective in increasing the body's stores of the antioxidant, said Penn State College of Medicine researchers in study results presented at a conference today (April 22). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-oral-supplement-body-storage-antioxidant.html Medical research Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:00:58 EST news285926450 Four of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) have detected more hepatitis A cases than usual among people who did not travel abroad during the incubation period before they became ill (domestic infection). Frozen berries may be the source of infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-common-source-hepatitis-nordic-countries.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:16:51 EST news285405403 Researchers have developed a simple new tool to help governments worldwide decide whether to screen airplane passengers leaving or arriving from areas of infectious disease outbreaks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-tool-areas-infectious-disease-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:37:41 EST news284823451 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) continues to be the leading cause of visual impairment in the United States for people over age 65, according to a study recently published online in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. AMD is a potentially blinding disease that affects more than 9.1 million Americans. This study, which tracked vision loss in relation to eye disease and treatment response in nearly 5,000 patients over a 20-year period, showed that despite the recent discovery of sight-saving drugs and advances in disease prevention, AMD still causes severe vision loss in approximately 15 percent of Americans 85 and older. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ophthalmologists-urge-early-diagnosis-treatment.html Ophthalmology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:25:17 EST news284207093 China reported Tuesday that four more people in one province have been seriously sickened by a bird flu virus new to humans, as cities along the eastern seaboard stepped up public health measures to guard against the disease, which has already caused two deaths. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-rare-bird-flu-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:54:50 EST news284111681 The apparent links between various food types and the prevention of chronic diseases - such as type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease (CHD) and hypertension - are well established. In particular, dietary fibre has long been regarded as a powerful means of reducing health risks. However, this study finds that it is not fibre, but whole grain cereals specifically, which prevent chronic disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-grains-dietary-fibre-fundamental-chronic.html Medical research Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:16:59 EST news281182587 A major European and global health issue is resistance to or inappropriate use of antibiotics. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) estimates that each year, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) results in 25 000 deaths and related costs of over EUR 1.5 billion in healthcare expenses and productivity losses. Over the last four years, there has been a significant increasing trend of combined resistance to multiple antibiotics in both Klebsiella pneumoniae and E. coli in more than one-third of the EU/EEA countries. In addition, in several Member States, between 25 % and up to more than 60 % of Klebsiella pneumoniae from bloodstream infections show combined resistance to multiple antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-threat-antibiotic-resistance.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 10 Jan 2013 06:15:02 EST news277020890 HIV infection among crisis-hit Greece's drug users is reaching "epidemic" proportions with recorded cases marking a 35-fold increase from 2010, health experts warned Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hiv-cases-epidemic-scale-greece.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:55:52 EST news273502544 Europe is experiencing its first sustained transmission of dengue fever since the 1920s after an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in Madeira, Portugal that has infected more than 1,300 people, an EU agency said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-big-dengue-fever-outbreak-europe.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Nov 2012 09:20:08 EST news272711174 (Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers at The Australian National University is one step closer to better understanding how organisms function after discovering how epigenetic information is transmitted from one generation of cells to the next. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-epigenetic-code-advancing-disease.html Genetics Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:26:32 EST news270109580 Why do medical research findings often fail to reach the people who could benefit from them most? And why are health programs proven to work in one setting frequently unable to achieve success in other places? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-science-links-real-world-health.html Other Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:38:17 EST news268472290 Twenty-five years ago the term "antioxidant" was new to the public. Today it's big business, with sales of products making antioxidant-related claims reaching $65 billion in the U.S. in 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-antioxidants-hype.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:38:26 EST news267777472 A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-swine-flu-vaccine-linked-child.html Medications Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:23:09 EST news267459782 (HealthDay) -- Training in mindfulness meditation or exercise is linked to a decrease in the severity and duration of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) in adults, according to a study published in the July/August issue of the Annals of Family Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-meditation-respiratory-illness-burden.html Health Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:10:02 EST news261148148 European experts in cardiovascular medicine will today gather at a two day symposium to address the national agenda on cardiovascular disease prevention, held at Imperial College London and sponsored by leading independent academic and professional publisher SAGE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-killer-cardiovascular-disease.html Cardiology Fri, 06 Jul 2012 09:34:26 EST news260786058 Today, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publish their jointly developed European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC). The 21 patient-centred standards aim to guide clinicians and public health workers to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in Europe – with nearly 74,000 reported TB cases in the EU/EEA in 2010 clearly showing that TB remains a public health challenge across the region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-tb-ecdc-ers-guidelines-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:10:18 EST news252479411 Statins may prevent pneumonia, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Researchers from Israel and the United States analyzed data from the JUPITER trial, a randomized, double-blind trial with placebo control groups conducted at 1315 sites in 26 countries to look at the use of the statin rosuvastatin in disease prevention. The trial involved 17 802 men aged 50 years or older and women aged 60 years or older without a history of heart disease or diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-effect-rosuvastatin-incident-pneumonia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:00:03 EST news251375206 A study from Rhode Island Hospital examined the two-year period when the current ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs (SEPs) was lifted in order to learn whether SEPs received or anticipated pursuing federal funding during that time. Only three of the 187 SEPs that responded had received funding at the time of the survey, and early experiences cited many barriers to accessing the federal funds. With the ban reinstated, the researchers state that the effect of federal SEP funding can therefore not realize its full public health potential. The findings are published in the American Journal of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-syringe-exchange-critical-health.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:26:43 EST news251051155 Bacteria that cause the main food-borne infections among people in the European Union commonly show resistance to widely-used antibiotics and antimicrobials, an EU report showed Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-resistant-food-bacteria-strains-common.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:55 EST news250945242 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 management of tuberculosis cases in the European Union (EU) is not meeting international standards, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-tb-cases-falls-short-international.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:50:01 EST news247984526 A new study finds that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), widely used in manufactured products such as non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, and fast-food packaging, were associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children. It is the first study to document how PFCs, which can be transferred to children prenatally (via the mother) and postnatally from exposure in the environment, can adversely affect vaccine response. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-pfcs-chemicals-environment-linked-lowered.html Immunology Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:03 EST news246642813 Female physicians, smaller patient loads and electronic reminders are associated with better delivery of preventive health care to patients, rather than the way in which primary care practices are funded, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-funding-delivery.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:33:30 EST news242310795 HIV infections continued to rise in Europe in 2010, but thanks to treatment the number of cases of full-blown AIDS has dramatically declined in recent years, according to a report published Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-hiv-europe-aids-cases-declining.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:11:45 EST news241863094 The European Union warned Thursday of a sharp rise in deaths across the 27-nation bloc due to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-eu-alarm-resistance-antibiotics.html Medications Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:10:01 EST news240768349