http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Families with a child completing elementary school this year are now preparing their registration for high school, a transition that is often stressful for children. A new program has demonstrated that it is possible to significantly reduce stress in some of these children thanks to a new educational tool designed under the leadership of Sonia Lupien, Director of the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) and professor at the University of Montreal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stress-teenagers.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:45:31 EST news282221092 It's no secret that obesity is a major problem in America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-medical-schools-fall-short-students.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:22:12 EST news270919322 (Medical Xpress)—A new national survey of more than 1,000 registered nurses suggests that serious barriers - including resistance from nursing leaders - prevent nurses from implementing evidence-based practices that improve patient outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-nurse-leader-resistance-barrier-high-quality.html Health Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:27:29 EST news265476440 (Edmonton) An educational program designed to rid schools of bullying behaviour directed at students who stutter is proving effective at changing attitudes in the classroom, according to research from the University of Alberta. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-bullying-behavior.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:05:09 EST news258206700 (HealthDay) -- An Internet-based educational program helps disease-free cancer survivors better manage their cancer-related fatigue (CRF), according to research published online March 12 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-web-based-cancer-related-fatigue.html Cancer Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:10:01 EST news250867324 Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55 percent of the time and those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help, run the risk of death or grave disability. But researchers at Binghamton University and SUNY Upstate Medical University have developed an educational program they believe will shorten the time to treatment and ultimately, save lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-women-heart.html Health Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:40:01 EST news245640112 Having a brother or sister with newly diagnosed cancer can be a distressing and difficult time for a child. While most children eventually cope, there can be a period of adjustment when their school work and social functioning suffer. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health shows that a teaching program, designed to improve the child's knowledge about their sibling's disease and to give them coping skills, was able to improve their adjustment and psychological well being in this early time period after diagnosis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-siblings-children-cancer.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:04:19 EST news245480652 "A multidisciplinary educational programme in cardiovascular prevention directed to children of school age can reduce their parents' cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular prevention could have more success focusing on children first, inducing healthier lifestyle habits in the whole family, "said investigator Luciana Fornari, from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The inspiration for this study, presented today at the ESC Congress 2011 in Paris, came with her motherhood, and the perception that her children could efficiently modify the family's habits with concepts that they have learned at school. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-cardiovascular-brazilian-school-parent-cvd.html Cardiology Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:17:12 EST news233842614 Teaching young women how to prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) increases condom use and might reduce their number of sexual partners, but little research exists on whether educational programs reduce rates of STIs such as human papillomavirus, according to an updated research review from England. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-safer-sex-ed-women-condom-partners.html Health Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:10:01 EST news221910622