http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As baby Lili celebrates her first birthday in Australia, far away in India her surrogate mother recalls the day the child was born—and on whom she never laid eyes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-wombs-rent-indian-surrogate-mothers.html Health Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:25:23 EST news280988717 Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have demonstrated, in a study conducted jointly with researchers at Yale University, that induced-pluripotent stem cells—the embryonic-stem-cell lookalikes whose discovery a few years ago won this year's Nobel Prize in medicine—are not as genetically unstable as was thought. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-insight-subtle-genomic-differences-cells.html Medical research Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:00:32 EST news272462224 State physician health programs (PHPs) play a key role in helping doctors with substance abuse problems. But the current PHP system is inconsistent and prone to potential conflicts of interest and ethical issues, according to a review available as publish ahead of print content from the December 2012 issue of Journal of Addiction Medicine, the official journal of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-addiction-doctors-pose-ethical-issues.html Addiction Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:02:44 EST news269517756 We've all heard the saying, "you are what you eat." It turns out the old adage might be true on more than just a physical level. The food you choose may also reflect your personal ethics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gut-reaction-morality-food-choice.html Health Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:50:44 EST news267875436 A study comparing whether endothelial colony-forming cells (ECFCs) derived from human placenta or those derived from human umbilical cord blood are more proliferative and better for forming new blood vessels has found that ECFCs derived from human placenta are more vasculogenic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-blood-vessel-potential-stem-cells.html Medical research Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:20:07 EST news261937162 It is fairly common for clinical research participants to receive payment for expenses such as travel and parking. What has raised ethical questions are payments or incentives given to encourage people to participate in research or to use a specific health intervention or care plan as part of the research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-cash-payments-health-ethical-misplaced.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:00:08 EST news252082531 (AP) -- A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-sex-changing-treatment-kids.html Health Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:06:23 EST news248947576 For the first time, a new research methodology recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration has been used to demonstrate that converting patients from one anti-epileptic drug to another - in this case, lamotrigine extended-release (LTG XR) - is well-tolerated, effective and safe. The work by Jacqueline French and her team, from New York University in the US, illustrates how the new methodology addresses ethical issues inherent in more traditional study designs. It is published online in Springer's journal, Neurotherapeutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-ethical-epilepsy-treatments.html Neuroscience Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:19:48 EST news242313386 (Medical Xpress) -- Rather than ensure the proper attribution of authorship, rules set up by leading medical journals to define and credit authorship of published articles are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry in its attempt to conceal and misrepresent industry contributions to the literature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-authorship-medical-journals-flouted-pharma.html Other Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:20:01 EST news232162890