http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A smarter, better educated population may help offset the impacts of declining fertility rates in East Asia, and provide lessons for Australia, according to a new report from the Australian National University's Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-offset-impact-fertility.html Health Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:20:01 EST news284371404 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute on Aging are studying how adults overcome social and economic challenges and whether it matters for their health, with a special focus on human resilience in the face of adversity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-uwmadison-human-resilience.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:41:09 EST news265358460 One quarter of Americans report problems paying for medical bills, and more than half say they have skipped or cut back on health care due to the cost, according to a survey released Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-americans-survey.html Health Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:04:34 EST news258692667 Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which can detect TB within 2 hours and has been endorsed by the World Health Organization, can significantly increase TB detection rate compared to other tests, particularly in HIV positive patients who have a high risk of being infected with TB, including multidrug resistant TB. An accompanying Essay and Perspective highlight the economic challenges and implications of such diagnostic tests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-tb-drug-resistance-investment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:21:52 EST news230919693