http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Although you might think being a member of the "clean plate club" is something that stops when a child is young, new research suggests that up to two-thirds of parents still encourage teenagers to finish all the food on their plates, even if the teen is overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-plate-parents-backfire-kids.html Pediatrics Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:17:40 EST news285844654 More than 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans received a prescription for a potentially harmful "high risk medication" in 2009, according to a newly published analysis by Brown University public health researchers. The questionable prescriptions were significantly more common in the Southeast region of the country, as well as among women and people living in relatively poor areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-seniors-risky-meds-south.html Health Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:27:14 EST news284818948 A greater level of toenail selenium was associated with a significant decrease in the risk for advanced prostate cancer, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, D.C., April 6-10. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cohort-selenium-advanced-prostate-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:50:19 EST news284802611 Replacement of prostheses is unpleasant to the patient and expensive to society. Replacement of failed hip prostheses gives rise to an expenditure of about 10 million euros yearly in Finland. A usual reason for the need to change a prosthesis is its becoming detached from bone. A recent doctoral dissertation at Aalto University has come across several methods with which the adhesion of implants to bone can be improved. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-methods-implant-bone.html Medical research Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:10:04 EST news282379339 (Medical Xpress)—Higher mortality rates among Americans younger than 50 are responsible for much of why life expectancy is lower in the United States than most of the world's most developed nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-links-mortality-age-life-lagging.html Health Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:58:12 EST news282329792 The Earned Income Tax Credit is known to reduce poverty, but according to a new University of California, Davis, study it also is linked to reduced rates of low birth weight and increased average birth weight—key factors in measuring infant health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-income-tax-credit-healthier-newborns.html Health Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:20:01 EST news280746111 Retail therapy is often lamented as wasteful and irresponsible, but new research from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business indicates that it can help alleviate certain negative emotions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-retail-therapy-blues.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:20:01 EST news280056770 (Medical Xpress)—Michigan health officials are using HIV surveillance technologies to assist in enforcing a "health threat" law that makes it illegal for HIV-positive people to have sex without disclosing their status. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-effort-hiv-health-threat-law.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:50:02 EST news278840058 (Medical Xpress)—A protein known as Sp2 is key to the proper creation of neurons from stem cells, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. Understanding how this protein works could enable scientists to "program" stem cells for regeneration, which has implications for neural therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lack-protein-sp2-disrupts-neuron.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:56:16 EST news277404968 New research from the University of Georgia identifies the mechanisms responsible for regenerating blood vessels in the brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-treatments.html Medical research Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:17:49 EST news275228260 Behavior problems, not depression, are linked to lower grades for depressed adolescents, according to a study in the December issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-behavior-problems-depression-linked-grades.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:01 EST news273344763 (HealthDay)—Routine checkups don't help reduce a patient's risk of dying from either heart disease or cancer, new Danish research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-routine-checkups-dont-cancer-heart.html Health Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:20:02 EST news272728365 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak coming near age 65, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-early-50s-key-baby-boomers.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 10:50:39 EST news272199025 (Medical Xpress)—High-risk children adopted from foster care do equally well when placed with gay, lesbian or heterosexual parents, UCLA psychologists report in the first multi-year study of children adopted by these three groups of parents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-foster-kids-equally-gay-lesbian.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:23:36 EST news269850191 Approximately 19 percent of children with a sibling diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will develop Autism due to shared genetic and environmental vulnerabilities, according to previous studies. For that reason, University of Miami (UM) psychologists are developing ways to predict the occurrence of ASD in high-risk children, early in life, in hopes that early intervention will lead to better outcomes in the future. Their findings are published in the journal Infancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-babies-non-verbal-skills-outcomes-children.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:39:31 EST news268310364 Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. This is shown by researchers from Uppsala University in a new study now being published by the academic journal Science. The findings may represent a breakthrough in research on memory and fear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-erase-brain.html Neuroscience Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:01:01 EST news267368436 Researchers from the Guy Rouleau Laboratory affiliated with the CHUM Research Centre and the CHU–Sainte-Justine Research Centre have discovered the genetic cause of a rare disease reported only in patients originating from Newfoundland: hereditary spastic ataxia (HSA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-genetic-discovery-hereditary-spastic-ataxiarare.html Genetics Thu, 06 Sep 2012 13:50:36 EST news266158210 Parents of young children hope for a successful kindergarten experience that will set their youngsters on the right path of their educational journey. Some worry about their kids not adapting to the school environment, particularly when the children are talkative and overactive. Yet, a new study by the University of Miami (UM) shows that overly shy preschool children are at greater academic risk than their chatty and boisterous peers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-kindergarten-readiness-shy-kids-academic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:37:35 EST news265383449 The combination of obesity and vitamin D deficiency may put people at even greater risk of insulin resistance than either factor alone, according to new research from the Drexel University School of Public Health recently published early online in the journal Diabetes Care. Insulin resistance is a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, a condition that affects 25.6 million adults and is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obesity-vitamin-d-greater-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:07:22 EST news261756419 People love social networks. That's the obvious conclusion from Facebook's 900 million active users and its current standing as one of the most visited sites on the web, second only to Google. New research from the University of Georgia finds what people may really "like" about social networking are themselves. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-facebook-good.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:55:54 EST news259926947 When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention and to feel comfortable with their choice, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-decision-uncertainty-breast-cancer.html Cancer Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:33:27 EST news253715585 Earlier this week, a teenager was accused of killing three high school students after he opened fire at Chardon High School in Ohio. Eric Madfis, a doctoral candidate in Northeastern’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and a research associate at the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, has been working with criminology expert and professor Jack Levin to complete his dissertation focused on school shootings. We asked Madfis to analyze this shooting, how it relates to past school shootings and how similar tragedies in the future might be prevented.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Mar 2012 08:56:57 EST news250160209 Drinking plenty of fluids may provide men with some protection against bladder cancer, according to a study presented at the 10th AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held Oct. 22-25, 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-fluid-intake-bladder-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:57:12 EST news238697825 Sleep can help college students retain and integrate new information to solve problems on a classroom exam, suggests a research abstract that will be presented Tuesday, June 14, in Minneapolis, Minn., at SLEEP 2011, the 25th Anniversary Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-boost-classroom-college-students.html Health Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:34:09 EST news227244826