http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers have found that African American women exhibit a higher risk for sexually transmitted infections including HIV/Aids. But what motivates this group of women to have sex? And when are they more likely to use protection? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-safe-sex-african-american-women.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:17:45 EST news278871429 (HealthDay)—Socioeconomic status, as measured by education and financial wealth, is a strong independent predictor of mortality risk among adult diabetes patients, according to a study published in the January issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-wealth-impact-mortality-diabetes-patients.html Diabetes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:30:32 EST news277565423 (Medical Xpress)—Individuals tend to choose partners of equal socio-economic status. This factor may also be significant in terms of health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-choice-partner-affects-health.html Health Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:17:25 EST news277550238 (Medical Xpress)—Women with significantly lower levels of education than their parents are at higher risk of poor mental health, a new University of Queensland study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-women-mothers-poor-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:00:01 EST news276935592 (HealthDay)—Residents of several Southern states are among the most likely to have poor heart health in the United States, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-heart-health-worst-south-northeast.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:30:01 EST news275158664 (Medical Xpress)—How well you fare on a subjective evaluation – whether it's of you treating a patient, auditioning for a play or even interviewing for a job – may depend largely on the person who was examined just before you. And the worse the person before you did, the better for you. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-tend-grade-relative.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:04:34 EST news273913463 (Medical Xpress)—When it comes to alcohol and drug use, peers can be just as influential online as they are in person, researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-peer-facebook-twitter-alcohol-drugs.html Addiction Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:46:55 EST news269588806 (Medical Xpress)—Walking with a slouched or despondent body posture can lead to feelings of depression or decreased energy, but those feelings can be reversed by walking in a more upright position, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-good-posture-ease-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:16:17 EST news268647360 The answer to early childhood tooth decay could be just a phone call away, thanks to new research by the University of Queensland and Queensland Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-toddler-tooth.html Dentistry Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:52:34 EST news268383143 (HealthDay)—African-American children with forearm fractures are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency and lower bone mineral density than their peers without fractures, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-poorer-bone-health-black-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:00:01 EST news265303904 (Medical Xpress) -- All too often, when individuals experience a mental health impairment, it derails their education. Researchers at the Office of Mental Health Research and Training at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare have released a new iteration of a toolkit designed to help mental health agencies support these individuals in the quest to achieve their educational goals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-toolkit-psychiatric-disabilities-goals.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:46:38 EST news264829591 (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 Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organization suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-polio-suspension-pakistan-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:38:42 EST news263119116 An examination of the characteristics of persons born outside the United States diagnosed with HIV while living in the U.S. finds that, compared to U.S.-born persons with HIV, they are more likely to be Hispanic or Asian, and to have a higher percentage of HIV infections attributed to heterosexual contact, according to a study appearing in JAMA being published online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-characteristics-factors-hiv-positive-persons-born.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:23:42 EST news262189415 New to meditation and already thinking about quitting? You may have simply chosen the wrong method. A new study published online July 7 in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing highlights the importance of ensuring that new meditators select methods with which they are most comfortable, rather than those that are most popular. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-meditation-technique-key-user-satisfaction.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:00:01 EST news260787205 (HealthDay) -- There were both good and bad trends in the overall health of Americans in 2011, a new government report shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-americans-bag-cdc.html Health Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:56:51 EST news259318580 In a study of mostly minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged families, 99 percent of participants reported having access to the Internet. More than half of the families were interested in receiving health information electronically, an important finding in the quest to improve access to health information. The study, conducted in the Emergency Department at Children's National Medical Center, is published in the June issue of Pediatric Emergency Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-majority-families-urban-areas-access.html Health Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EST news258044829 (HealthDay) -- Although additional rigorous clinical trials are warranted, the literature suggests that video games can be useful in improving a variety of health outcomes, particularly those in the areas of psychological and physical therapy, according to research published online in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-video-games-positively-impact-variety.html Health Mon, 28 May 2012 12:32:04 EST news257427116 The constant health education that dialysis patients receive can lead to boredom and noncompliance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-five-minute-chat-big-difference-dialysis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 May 2012 09:24:28 EST news256379062 The Spanish government, which last month introduced a tough 2012 budget, said Monday it expects to save another 10 billion euros ($13 billion) by making public services like education and health care run more efficiently. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-spain-bln-euros-health-reform.html Health Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:17:29 EST news253207041 Cognitive training including puzzles, handicrafts and life skills are known to reduce the risk, and help slow down the progress, of dementia amongst the elderly. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine showed that cognitive training was able to improve reasoning, memory, language and hand eye co-ordination of healthy, older adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mind-games-healthy-older-people.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:30:03 EST news252040068 The amount of needless suffering caused by both acute and chronic pain in the United States is a major, overlooked medical problem that requires improved education at multiple levels, stretching from the implementation of new public health campaigns to better training of primary care physicians in pain management. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-epidemic-unnecessary-stanford-dean-major.html Health Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:05 EST news246105930 Improving health is too multifaceted to be left solely in the hands of those working in the health sector alone, according to the latest Healthy People 2020 Objectives for the Nation. A recent shift in national health priorities has led Healthy People, a program that sets the national agenda for health promotion and disease prevention, to add 'social determinants' into its 2020 goals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-health-village.html Health Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:26:08 EST news242490361 Most of us would agree that prevention is better than cure. But new results out in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation, published by SAGE, indicate that a costly intervention programme designed to reduce early retirement on health grounds in Finland had no measurable effect. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-costly-intervention-effect-early.html Health Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:23:07 EST news242047366 China is due to hold its first AIDS Walk -- a fundraising walkathon already popular in the US -- on the Great Wall, organisers said Wednesday, as the nation steps up its fight against the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-china-aids-great-wall.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:25:00 EST news241853094 A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions, for example, by finding and evaluating health information or choosing a benefit plan, also improved exercise, diet and other health habits, according to a new study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-employee-heath-consumer-skills-health.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:45:49 EST news239273129 Elsevier, the world's leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that the Saudi Ministry of Health has published its 2011 health conditions for travelers to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj). The publication, published in the August Issue of Journal of Infection and Public Health (JIPH), informs visitors of the full requirements for entry into Saudi Arabia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-health-conditions-mecca-hajj-pilgrimage.html Health Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:52:44 EST news233311944 A group of French scientists (from the Unit of Research on Nutritional Epidemiology, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bobigny, France; the French Institute for Prevention and Health Education, St. Denis, France; and the French National Cancer Institute) have published a paper in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on guidelines for drinking and the relation of alcohol to cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-guidelines-adequate-cancer.html Addiction Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:29:25 EST news230292440