http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials—a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-diseases-global-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 May 2013 09:41:41 EST news287656884 In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-bird-flu-mutates-infect.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:04:24 EST news284227458 A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic. This major systematic review, led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), shows HIV self-testing removes much of the fear and stigma associated with being tested for the disease. This study, which is published in PLoS Medicine is the first of its kind and could pave the way for early detection and treatment around the world, thereby reducing transmission. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hiv-self-testing-key-global-epidemic.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:28:24 EST news284142488 Scientists at the Forsyth have gained new insight on how Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global epidemic. Although drugs have been available to fight TB for 50 years, the disease still infects nearly 2.2 billion people worldwide and causes 1.7 million annual deaths. This is largely attributed to the bacteria's ability to stay dormant in the human body and later resurface as active disease. The Forsyth team, and its collaborators from Stanford University, has recently discovered that Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB, can lay dormant and thrive within bone marrow stem cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-scientists-gain-latent-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:00:01 EST news278766332 New research appearing online today in Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, shows that a handheld mobile device can check patients' HIV status with just a finger prick, and synchronize the results in real time with electronic health records. This technology takes a step toward providing remote areas of the world with diagnostic services traditionally available only in centralized healthcare settings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-handheld-mobile-device-laboratory-quality-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:30:18 EST news277979366 Harvard AIDS researchers gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Thursday to mark 10 years of work under a key federal anti-AIDS program that has been instrumental in stemming the tide of a disease that once threatened to destroy entire societies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-africa-success-aids-school-health.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:37:52 EST news277641415 (Medical Xpress)—New drugs to treat diabetes are being developed by scientists at the University of Greenwich. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-drugs-diabetes-scientists-power.html Diabetes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:04:47 EST news277553078 The newly appointed deputy chief of the United Nations HIV-fighting program, Brazilian Luiz Loures, hailed his own country's achievements in the fight against the deadly global epidemic in an interview published Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-aids-deputy-hails-brazil.html HIV & AIDS Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:31:35 EST news275416287 Researchers show that the global epidemic of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI in the early to mid-2000s was caused by the spread of two different but highly related strains of the bacterium rather than one as was previously thought. The spread and persistence of both epidemics were driven by the acquisition of resistance to a frontline antibiotic. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-bugs-borders.html Genetics Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:15:25 EST news274281308 International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-cases-virus-jordan.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:57:22 EST news273502631 A new study by University of Southern California (USC) and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-high-fructose-corn-syrup-global-prevalence.html Diabetes Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:38:02 EST news273238670 (Medical Xpress)—Gastric bypass patients who attended five follow-up office visits in two years as recommended by their surgeons lost nearly twice as much weight (113 lbs. vs. 57 lbs.) as patients who attended only two follow-up visits, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing study in Obesity Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-gastric-bypass-surgery.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:28:20 EST news272629016 The global "epidemic" of one type of gullet cancer (adenocarcinoma) seems to have started in the UK during the 1950s, sparked by some as yet unknown, but common, factor, suggests research published online in Gut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-global-epidemic-gullet-cancer-uk.html Cancer Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:30:02 EST news264874701 Men with large waists urinate more frequently than their slimmer counterparts, according to research in the August issue of the urology journal BJUI. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-men-large-waists-frequent-urination.html Health Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:49:15 EST news262950521 With widespread hunger continuing to haunt developing nations, and obesity fast becoming a global epidemic, any number of efforts on the parts of governments, scientists, non-profit organizations and the business world have taken aim at these twin nutrition-related crises. But all of these efforts have failed to make a large dent in the problems, and now an unusual international collaboration of researchers is explaining why. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-anti-hunger-anti-obesity-fall-short.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:00:11 EST news262262102 The Canadian Diabetes Association reports that nine million Canadians live with diabetes or prediabetes and that 20 new cases are diagnosed every hour. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-drugs-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 24 May 2012 08:43:14 EST news257067725 Childhood obesity is a widespread global epidemic (1) and in parallel with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)(2) is now the leading cause of liver disease among children. New data presented today at the International Liver Congress™ 2012 furthers this concern by showing that childhood obesity is positively linked with developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) - the most common form of liver cancer(3) - in adulthood.(4) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-childhood-obesity-linked-hepatocellular-carcinoma.html Cancer Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:13:19 EST news254038378 Obesity is described today as a global epidemic. If no action is taken, a billion people will be overweight by 2030. This is an acute challenge to our society, says researcher Claes Held. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-great-weight.html Health Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:01:31 EST news251103535 A new community-wide collaboration to reduce the impact of chronic disease and empower patients is generating impressive early results, leaders of the Accountable Care Community (ACC) initiative said today. The Akron-based Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA) is leading the initiative with its founding institutional members and more than 60 public and private community partners. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-health-approach-aims-combats-chronic.html Health Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:22:23 EST news247926136 An estimated 366 million people worldwide now suffer from diabetes and the global epidemic is getting worse, health officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-experts-million-people-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:44:26 EST news235140248 A major international study collating and analyzing worldwide data on diabetes since 1980 has found that the number of adults with the disease reached 347 million in 2008, more than double the number in 1980. The research, published today in The Lancet, reveals that the prevalence of diabetes has risen or at best remained unchanged in virtually every part of the world over the last three decades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-million-adults-diabetes-reveals-scale.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:22:45 EST news228223306