http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified 14 new genes which could have important consequences for future treatments of childhood arthritis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-discovery-genes-childhood-arthritis-treatment.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:05:34 EST news285836724 Data, data everywhere. In genomics research, there is a data deluge, so innovative ways to analyze all that information will play a critical role in future breakthroughs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychology-professor-clues-psychiatric-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:29:22 EST news274523356 Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D. describes how the dramatic progress in autism research has paralleled increased recognition of autism's prevalence and financial impact in the December issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry published on line today. "This issue of the journal features three articles on autism," she writes in her editorial. "A decade ago, the journal published about the same number of autism articles per year." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-autism-prevalence-parallels-explosion.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:25:32 EST news273169525 University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have discovered germline BAP1 mutations are associated with a novel cancer syndrome characterized by malignant mesothelioma, uveal melanoma, cutaneous melanoma and atypical melanocytic tumors. Germline mutations are hereditary gene defects that are present in every cell. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cancer-gene-defect-responsible-syndrome.html Cancer Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:55:31 EST news266144107 A study, performed in mice and utilizing post-mortem samples of brains from patients with Alzheimer's disease, found that a single event of a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can disrupt proteins that regulate an enzyme associated with Alzheimer's. The paper, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, identifies the complex mechanisms that result in a rapid and robust post-injury elevation of the enzyme, BACE1, in the brain. These results may lead to the development of a drug treatment that targets this mechanism to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-brain-trauma-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 24 Jul 2012 17:10:09 EST news262368591 The United States government would get a better bang for its health-care buck in managing the country's most prevalent childhood disabilities if it invested more in eliminating socio-environmental risk factors than in developing medicines. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-environment-key-childhood-disabilities.html Health Tue, 01 May 2012 16:00:02 EST news255105419 Scientific understanding and medical treatments for dyslexia have advanced over the past 5 years, but much work remains to be done to fully understand the causes of dyslexia and to improve the lives of children who struggle to learn to read, according to a Seminar published Online First in The Lancet. Indeed, most children are only diagnosed with dyslexia after they have experienced serious difficulties in school, at a time when it is much harder for them to master new skills, and this could be preventing children with dyslexia from achieving the best outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-children-dyslexia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:30:01 EST news253814296 The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study, a 20-year nationwide survey of the health, economic and social status of older Americans conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research, has added genetic information from 12,500 consenting participants to the online genetics database of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-u-m-health-genetic-nih-database.html Genetics Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:51:55 EST news252154307 The first study to investigate risk factors for the vascular condition called CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) in volunteers without neurological disease has identified what the researchers call a remarkable similarity between this condition and possible or confirmed risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-factors-ccsvi-similar-ms.html Neuroscience Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:58:47 EST news241898304 An analysis of several studies shows that people with Parkinson's disease have a significantly higher risk of melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer and the leading cause of death from skin diseases. The research is published in the June 7, 2011, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-people-parkinson-disease-melanoma-dangerous.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:22:13 EST news226596099