http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Despite a critical shortage of primary care in the United States less than 25 percent of newly minted doctors go into this field and only a tiny fraction, 4.8 percent, set up shop in rural areas, according to a study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). Those findings, from a report just released in the "Published Ahead-of-Print" section in Academic Medicine, suggest the nation's output of primary care physicians falls short of a demonstrated need and will be unable to solve the growing shortage in underserved areas anytime soon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-percent-doctors-primary.html Health Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:23:44 EST news290269415 A child can directly influence the attitude and behaviour of their parents towards the environment without them even knowing it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-kids-parents-respect-environment.html Pediatrics Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:39:19 EST news279945543 Since the early 1970s school shootings at American elementary, secondary and higher education institutions have been a painful reality for American society. After each incident – like the recent attack in Newtown, CT – there is voluminous dialogue about what can be done to prevent the next, such tragedy. But can anything realistically be done to prevent these horrific crimes? A new article¹ by Dr. Daniel J. Flannery at Case Western Reserve University, and colleagues, scheduled to appear in the January issue of Springer's Current Psychiatry Reports, attempts to parse out what we have learned from past events, and what we can do about stopping the next attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-school.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:17:58 EST news275152670