http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A test for hormone-disrupting pollutants, originally developed at the University of California, Davis, has been approved as an international standard by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development as well as by the U.S. government. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-hormone-disrupting-chemicals-global.html Other Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:49:54 EST news278689787 After decades of indifference, big businesses and the government are turning up the heat on smokers in South Korea, a nation with one of the developed world's highest male smoking rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-south-korean-smokers.html Addiction Wed, 23 May 2012 05:10:01 EST news256966421 Canada's ranking in international child health indexes would dramatically improve if measurements were standardized, according to a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McGill University, the University of Calgary, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, working with the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-international-infant-mortality-flawed.html Health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:01 EST news248675856 Social inequality in wealthy nations is increasing while in parts of the developing world many diseases are on the wane, Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-inequality-wealthy-states-diseases-decline.html Health Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:10:01 EST news245926534 South Korean anti-smoking activists have gone to the constitutional court to try to shut down the country's cigarette industry, a court official said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-korea-activists-court-cigarette-sales.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:33:18 EST news245561577