http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A research coordinated by the UAB has succeeded in testing a vaccine against leishmaniasis. The vaccine was tested with the best animal model existing, the golden hamster, and can be produced at low costs by using insect larvae. The research, published in the latest edition of PLoS ONE, is an important step towards the fight against a disease which causes the death of 70,000 people each year in developing countries and of countless dogs, which also suffer from this disease and are its natural reservoir. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-successful-results-human-leishmaniasis-efficient.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:27:12 EST news275131626 Biologists in Canada have made a medical enzyme using genetically-engineered corn, a feat that could one day slash the cost of treating a life-threatening inherited disease, a journal reported on Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lab-drug-on-the-cob-rare-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:26:25 EST news267189967 Chronic exposure to dim light at night can lead to depressive symptoms in rodents -- but these negative effects can be reversed simply by returning to a standard light-dark cycle, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-effects-night-reversed.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:00:02 EST news262281950 A new study suggests that sex during adolescence can have lasting negative effects on the body and mood well into adulthood, most likely because the activity occurs when the nervous system is still developing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-adolescent-sex-linked-adult-body.html Neuroscience Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:39:48 EST news240593976