http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Dietary restriction has already been shown to extend the lives of laboratory animals, but recent research suggests the beneficial effects of eating less may extend to improved recovery from surgery and better resistance to disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-calories-surgery.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 08:29:47 EST news255684579 Surgery, often thought to be too expensive for wholesale global health delivery, can be a highly cost-effective means of improving health in the developing world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-world-economic-benefits-trump-expense.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:00:07 EST news254591808 (Medical Xpress) -- In parts of the world without reliable electricity, a pedal-powered nebulizer could provide life-saving asthma treatments. Small wax-filled sleeping bags could keep premature infants warm. A salad spinner centrifuge for blood samples could help clinicians diagnose anemia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-students-wiki-medical-devices-low-income.html Other Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:38:58 EST news254475530 Since the 1930s, there have been 75 documented episodes of malaria resurgence worldwide, most of which were linked to weakening of malaria control programs, finds a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Malaria Journal. The study, which is allied to the theme of this year's World Malaria Day (25th April 2012) "Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria", found that the most common reason for weakening of malaria control programs was funding disruptions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-malaria-resurgence-linked-reduction-malaria-control.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:25:35 EST news254456717 New York voters recognize the importance of global health research and are concerned about the United States' ability to compete globally, according to a new poll commissioned by Research!America, yet an overwhelming majority (93%) of those polled don't know where global health research is conducted in their own state. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-poll-york-voters-global-health.html Other Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:20:13 EST news253185600 Researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health developed a "gene chip" to contribute to the identification of malaria drug resistance, an effort that will allow for real-time response in modified treatment strategies for this devastating disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-method-combats-malaria-drug-resistance.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:49:50 EST news252856175 The world is in the midst of a health care transition in which the primary threat increasingly comes from chronic diseases rather than infectious ones, and where the ailments of the elderly are supplanting the diseases of the young. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-pondering-health-home.html Health Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:32:38 EST news252142347 Around 7,000 more women than first thought in Britain have received potentially faulty PIP breast implants, the government said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-women-britain-implants.html Surgery Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:23:52 EST news251040225 Stroke is the leading cause of death in people over 65 in low- and middle-income countries, according to new research published this week. Deaths of people over 65 represent more than a third of all deaths in developing countries yet, until now, little research has focused on this group. The study was led by researchers King's College London and is published in PLoS Medicine. The study also finds that education and social protection are as important in prolonging people's lives as economic development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-mortality-older-people-latin-america.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:00:01 EST news249670113 The prospect of deep cuts in the federal budget threatens to reverse the dramatic progress of a bipartisan US commitment to defeat neglected diseases in developing countries, according to a new report released today by the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC). Federal investments in global health research and development (R&D) programs that span multiple agencies have helped nurture an array of new vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, and other health products needed to combat diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (TB), and childhood killers like pneumonia and diarrheal diseases. Despite these advances, President Obama's budget request for 2013 calls for several decreases for global health when compared with last year's levels. Several global health R&D programs at US agencies also saw drastic funding cuts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-setbacks-global-health-due-current.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:57:56 EST news249656262 The study of more than 11,000 pregnant women, in partnership with Mars Petcare, showed that those who owned dogs were approximately 50% more likely to achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise a day through high levels of brisk walking than those without dogs. Scientists suggest that as it is a low-risk exercise, walking a dog could form part of a broader strategy to improve the health of pregnant women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-dog-pregnant-women.html Health Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:00:12 EST news248543788 (Medical Xpress) -- The great paradox of global health efforts is that regions of the world most plagued by poverty, poor infrastructure and rampant disease are often the most difficult to support. Now, scientists have demonstrated that confronting several diseases at once can make the most of thinly-stretched donor dollars and national health care budgets, to help to save lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-combined-approach-global-health.html Health Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:01 EST news247733887 Belgium's health authorities on Wednesday advised women with defective breast implants made by French firm PIP to have them removed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-belgium-women-pip-breast-implants.html Other Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:32:51 EST news247321965 Dutch women wanting to replace potentially defective breast implants made by now-defunct French company PIP will be paid back in full, the Dutch health insurance federation said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dutch-women-reimbursed-breast-implant.html Other Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:58:07 EST news246808678 An Emory University study published in the January issue of Health Affairs assesses real-world lifestyle interventions to help delay or prevent the costly chronic disease that affects nearly 26 million Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-diabetes-spotlight-lifestyle-interventions.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:40:05 EST news245420652 The founder of the French breast implant maker at the centre of a global health scare said Thursday much of the information emerging in the scandal was untrue but refused further comment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-french-breast-implant-maker-denounces.html Other Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:19:15 EST news244991950 France vowed on Tuesday to investigate failures to detect faults with the French-made breast implants at the centre of a global health scare, as a senior lawmaker urged a full parliamentary probe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-france-vows-probe-breast-implant.html Other Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:35:12 EST news244802107 Developed countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development Goal deadline looming in 2015, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-global-health-funding-deadline-millennium.html Health Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:39:03 EST news243103119 Global HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment efforts are missing a major opportunity to significantly improve health conditions in poor countries by simply adding low-cost care for the many other chronic and disabling diseases routinely afflicting and often killing these same patients, according to a panel of disease experts who spoke at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-tropical-disease-experts-opportunity-global.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:24:03 EST news242681025 In a breakthrough study published online today in The Lancet, researchers from Boston University, Save the Children and the WHO found that young children treated at home for severe pneumonia by Pakistan's network of "lady health workers" were more likely to get well than children referred to health facilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-groundbreaking-home-treatment-pneumonia-hospital.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:30:01 EST news240155030 A study led by Frank Cobelens of the Amsterdam Institute of Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and colleagues reports on the cost-effectiveness of implementing the Xpert MTB/RIF diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) in high burden countries. Based on their findings, which are published in this week's PLoS Medicine, the authors predict that Xpert will be a cost-effective method of TB diagnosis, compared with current standard techniques, in low- and middle-income countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-xpert-mtbrif-effective-tb-diagnosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:51:51 EST news239997100 Pharmaceutical giants and the UN intellectual property agency launched Wednesday a collaboration to share certain patented drug information with public organisations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pharma-giants-drug-patents-collaboration.html Medications Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:12:40 EST news238846347 Scientists who developed a novel mouse model mimicking human preterm labor have described a molecular signaling pathway underlying preterm birth and targeted it to stop the problem. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-therapeutic-strategy-combat-premature-birth.html Medical research Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:00:31 EST news238685082 Climate change poses an immediate and serious threat to global health and stability, as floods and droughts destroy people's homes and food supplies and increase mass migration, experts warned Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-climate-poses-threat-health-experts.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:30:05 EST news238068266 A new global atlas charts prospects for malaria elimination by offering the first full-color, detailed depiction of a disease now declining in many parts of the globe. The "Atlas of Malaria-Eliminating Countries" spotlights countries successfully moving toward eliminating the disease and provides a visual tool to help focus resources where they are needed most. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-malaria-highlight-prospects.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:30:12 EST news238044596 The world has become more vulnerable to outbreaks of disease caused by contaminated food because of growing global trade, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-world-prone-food-borne-disease-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:26:52 EST news237695190 In advance of a United Nations conference today on the global challenges of treating cancer and other diseases, the UBC Graduate School of Journalism has launched an ambitious multimedia site, The Pain Project, which documents one of the greatest challenges to treating chronic illnesses: severely constrained access to morphine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ubc-journalism-documents-global-pain.html Other Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:48:09 EST news235644474 The World Alzheimer's Report 2011 'The Benefits of Early Diagnosis and Intervention', released today by Alzheimer's Disease International (ADI), shows that there are interventions that are effective in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, some of which may be more effective when started earlier, and that there is a strong economic argument in favour of earlier diagnosis and timely intervention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-world-alzheimer-benefits-early-diagnosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:03:45 EST news235101802 A report published Online by The Lancet today -- "Innovating for Every Woman, Every Child" -- attempts to capture how changes in global developments and connectivity will interact in order to improve the health and wellbeing of the most marginalised women and children around the globe. A Comment on the report is also published by The Lancet, written by Tore Godal, (Special Adviser to Prime Minister of Norway on global health); and Richard Klausner (Managing Partner of The Column Group, San Francisco, USA). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-woman-child-published.html Health Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:30:01 EST news234965513 As the world prepares to develop a global strategy to tackle some of the biggest current threats to human health, there is a lot to be learned from past successes and mistakes of the global response to HIV/AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-summit-non-communicable-diseases-global-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:04:55 EST news234550003