http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The 2012 'Mapping Social Cohesion Report' - Australia's largest survey of social cohesion, immigration and population issues, authored by Monash University's Professor Andrew Markus and produced by the Scanlon Foundation, was released today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-social-cohesion-stable-landscape.html Health Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:57:30 EST news270463907 (Medical Xpress) -- The global financial crisis has contributed to an increase in the rates of suicide and attempted suicide for economic reasons in Italy, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-financial-crisis-blame-suicides-italy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:30:02 EST news264759371 As leading figures in respiratory health from across the globe gather in Birmingham for the COPD8 conference ahead of World Spirometry Day, the European COPD Coalition (ECC) is calling on policy makers across Europe to recognise that chronic diseases such as COPD, present as great a threat as the global financial crisis , and is urging collective action. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-copd.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Jun 2012 04:09:21 EST news259384144 The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Wednesday it is cutting over 100 jobs, in an overhaul after a rough financial period and a scandal in which millions of dollars went missing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-global-fund-aids-slash-jobs.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 02 May 2012 14:50:01 EST news255186540