http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. With a deadly dose of barbiturates stashed in his home in a small eastern Dutch town, pensioner Hans Hillebrand is a "self-determinist": he alone wants to decide when it's time to die with dignity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dutch-pensioner-decision-die-dignity.html Other Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:55:12 EST news252392102 (HealthDay) -- Your DNA might help dictate how your skin changes with age, one expert says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-genes-key-aging-skin.html Genetics Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:50:30 EST news251142626 A new Australian diabetes assessment released today reinforces a legacy of pandemic proportions being left for future generations – with one in three of today’s Gen Ys joining the ranks of ‘Generation D’ (Generation Diabetes) during their lifetime. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-gen-d-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:47:41 EST news251016439 The proportion of people with desirable physical traits could rapidly accelerate over a few generations with the aid of a diet that tweaks particular genes, a study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-tweak-gene-fewgenerations.html Genetics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:16:19 EST news247914968 Youngsters in Norway today are not as fit as earlier generations, and even the best perform less well. Researchers now warn that a wave of inactivity could have a major long-term health impact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-sitting-it-out.html Health Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:25:19 EST news246191112 Levels of health disparity have increased substantially for people born in the United States after 1980, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-health-gap-grown-young-adults.html Health Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:40:01 EST news241928616 Deep-seated ageism is at the core of our culture and at the heart of an unproductive government approach to healthy ageing, says Professor Hal Kendig, Director of the Ageing, Work and Health Research Unit in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-healthy-ageing-important-aged-expert.html Health Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:32:34 EST news240474599 Persistent high poverty is most prevalent among children, with those living in rural America disproportionally impacted, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-poor-kids.html Health Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:07:25 EST news238151235 (AP) -- The Obama administration's signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty - a long-term care insurance plan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-health-overhaul-law-major-casualty.html Health Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:07:38 EST news237877620 (Medical Xpress) -- Each one of us receives approximately 60 new mutations in our genome from our parents. This striking value is reported in the first-ever direct measure of new mutations coming from mother and father in whole human genomes published today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-human-mutation-revealed-family-genetic.html Genetics Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:00:05 EST news227073503 Today, most scientists use the term "mutation" to describe a change in an individual gene -- more precisely a minute alteration of its DNA. But the term has also achieved a powerful presence in popular culture, to describe a process by which individuals gain exceptional, often malign, characteristics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-science-historian-elof-carlson-idea.html Genetics Wed, 08 Jun 2011 13:21:28 EST news226758076