http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Hebrew University in Jerusalem have found that contrary to popular thinking, people are capable of reading sentences and solving math problems without consciously thinking about them. The team describes their experiments and results in testing such abilities in their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-capable-math-equations-subconsciously.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:50:02 EST news272017529 Medical researchers at the University of Alberta reviewed test results from thousands of patients with various types of cancer and discovered that "disorganized" cancers were more difficult to treat and consistently resulted in lower survival rates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-cancers-disorganized-traffic-difficult.html Cancer Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:56:20 EST news259509372 Assessing glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using kidney filtration markers in blood is the standard means for determining kidney function, diagnosing kidney disease and measuring its progression. A higher filtration rate indicates healthy kidney function, while a lower rate points to various stages of kidney disease. A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the new CKD-EPI equation for calculating GFR is a better predicator of risk for kidney disease and death compared to the most widely used method. The findings suggest that switching to the CKD-EPI equation for calculating GFR could focus efforts more efficiently, and improve assessment of patient future risk and treatment of kidney disease. The study is published in the May 9 edition of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-method-kidney-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 08 May 2012 16:00:08 EST news255696606 The scope of the obesity epidemic in the United States has been greatly underestimated, according to a study published Apr. 2 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers found that the Body Mass Index (BMI) substantially under-diagnoses obesity when compared to the Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) scan, a direct simultaneous measure of body fat, muscle mass, and bone density. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-obesity-epidemic-america-significantly-worse.html Health Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:00:04 EST news252590702