http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Physicians from the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) and the University of Calgary have published a review article in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) to help family doctors diagnose and treat fibromyalgia. The article represents the first time researchers have published Canadian guidelines to help manage the condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-canadian-guidelines-fibromyalgia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:03 EST news287056981 New research published Online First in The Lancet confirms that routine intimate partner violence screening and counselling in primary-care settings does not improve women's quality of life, but does help reduce depressive symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-routine-screening-partner-violence-health-care.html Health Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:30:06 EST news285245904 The majority of family doctors receive little or no information about harmful effects of medicines when visited by drug company representatives, according to an international study involving Canadian, U.S. and French physicians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-doctors-effects-medicines-sales.html Medications Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:27:23 EST news284804807 More than half of lower-back MRIs ordered at two Canadian hospitals were either inappropriate or of questionable value for patients. And family doctors were more apt to order these unnecessary tests compared to other specialists, demonstrates newly published medical research from Alberta and Ontario teams. The findings are important because in some parts of the country, MRI tests for the lower back account for about one-third of all MRI requests. Across the country, wait times for MRIs are long and patient access is limited. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-lower-back-mris-unnecessary.html Other Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00:06 EST news283439567 The number of children admitted to hospital as emergencies has steadily increased every year since 2003, with the largest rises seen among the under 5s, indicates research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-yearly-emergency-admissions-kids-england.html Health Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:36:08 EST news279855349 (HealthDay)—More than two-thirds of family doctors now use electronic health records, and the percentage doing so doubled between 2005 and 2011, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-doctors-electronic-health.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:50:01 EST news277463335 (HealthDay)—Many American doctors lack knowledge about the proper diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy in children, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-doctors-dont-kids-epilepsy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:00:01 EST news273776149 The first study to estimate rates of traumatic brain injury, without relying on official figures, suggests the worldwide incidence of TBI could be six times higher than previously estimated. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-worldwide-incidence-traumatic-brain-injury.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Nov 2012 18:30:02 EST news272740398 A new study provides the first clear evidence that vision or eye problems are rarely the cause of recurring headaches in children, even if the headaches usually strike while the child is doing schoolwork or other visual tasks. Many parents assume that frequent headaches mean their child needs glasses, so they ask their doctor to refer their child for an eye exam. This study was conducted by pediatric ophthalmologists who wanted to find reliable answers for parents, family doctors and pediatricians facing this common health question. The research is being presented today at the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, conducted jointly this year with the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-children-headaches-rarely-eyeglasses.html Ophthalmology Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:41:55 EST news271935703 Older patients who visited local ERs for chest pain or breathing problems and had chest x-rays reveal unknown spinal fractures, were more apt to receive osteoporosis treatment afterward if a simple intervention was used, recently published medical research from the University of Alberta has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-simple-intervention-osteoporosis-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:50:01 EST news270312371 GPs are not always using the most comprehensive and reliable online resources to support them in treating patients with the debilitating hearing condition tinnitus, researchers have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gps-unreliable-websites-tinnitus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:47:14 EST news266672823 A program delivering collaborative maternity care resulted in fewer cesarean deliveries, shorter average hospital stays and higher breast-feeding rates for mothers, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-maternity-results-cesarean-sections-shorter.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:00:16 EST news266491414 In Turkey, the land of kebabs and sweet lokum, expanding waistlines are the target of a new anti-obesity campaign by the government to help one million Turks slim down over the next year. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-turkey-ballooning-weight-gain.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 20 Jul 2012 04:51:45 EST news261978560 Fewer people died or needed expensive long-term care when their physicians focused on the top risk factors for stroke and dementia, according to research reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-physicians-focus-dementia-money.html Cardiology Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:12 EST news261750736 (Medical Xpress) -- A major study of GP prescribing, led by The University of Nottingham, has found that while the vast majority of prescriptions written by family doctors are appropriate and effectively monitored, around 1 in 20 contain an error. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-gp-good-standard.html Medications Wed, 02 May 2012 07:10:01 EST news255158758 More than three quarters (77%) of cancer patients who first present to their family doctors (GPs) with suspicious symptoms are referred to hospital after only one or two consultations, a new study has found. However, the new research also shows a wide variation in the number of times a cancer patient sees their general practitioner before they are referred to a specialist, with the most pre-referral consultations occurring when the cancer was one of the less common types, or when the patient was either female, young, or an older person from an ethnic minority. The research was published today, 24 February, in the journal The Lancet Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-gp-cancer-patients-specialists.html Cancer Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:30:04 EST news249228248 According to a state survey, fewer than 6 percent of doctors fully follow national guidelines for assessing sudden cardiac death risk during high school sports physicals, researchers said at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-doctors-sudden-cardiac-death-screening.html Cardiology Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:21:23 EST news240409258 India is facing a twin epidemic of diabetes and high blood pressure, doctors have warned, after the results of a countrywide study suggested that one in five people had both conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-india-twin-epidemic-doctors.html Health Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:40:01 EST news239956215 Doctors who drink more themselves are more liberal in their advice to patients on alcohol consumption. They set higher thresholds for what is harmful, and while men who are heavy drinkers get to continue drinking, women are often advised to stop altogether, reveals a thesis from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctors-alcohol-consumption-advice-patients.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:37:00 EST news239283414 A total of 606 Canadian physicians were disciplined by their provincial medical licensing authorities between 2000 and 2009, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-track-doctors-disciplined.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:04:16 EST news237557047 Referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies seems to cut their use of healthcare services and the amount of sick leave they take, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-referral-therapies-health-sick.html Health Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:07:47 EST news236887660 A simple finger prick test during routine eye examinations at high street opticians could help to identify millions of people with previously undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-simple-blood-high-street-opticians.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:39:03 EST news233987844 Job-related stress is catching up with the Canadians. A new study by Concordia University economists, published in BMC Public Health, has found that increased job stress causes workers to increasingly seek help from health professionals for physical, mental and emotional ailments linked to job stress. Indeed, the number of visits to healthcare professionals is up to 26 per cent for workers in high stress jobs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-workplace-stress-health-hazard.html Health Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:35:02 EST news233487289 One in six people over 75 are likely to have at least one abnormal liver test and those that have two or more are twice as likely to die from cancer and 17 times more likely to die from liver disease, according to research in the August issue of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-abnormal-liver-death-people.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:20:02 EST news231498138 Family doctors are reluctant to disclose identifiable patient information, even in the context of an influenza pandemic, mostly in an effort to protect patient privacy. A recently published study by Dr. Khaled El Emam the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the University of Ottawa and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute recently found that during the peak of the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, there was still reluctance to report detailed patient information for public health purposes. These results are important today, so we can learn from that experience and prepare for the inevitable next pandemic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-physicians-reluctant-patient.html Health Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:49:37 EST news229261768 Patients with heart disease risks are more likely to be prescribed cardiovascular (CV) drugs if they see a younger doctor and recommended to change their lifestyle if they see an older doctor, according to research in the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-younger-doctors-drugs-heart-lifestyle.html Health Mon, 16 May 2011 09:55:26 EST news224758489