http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-american-academy-microbiology-resistance.html Other Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:24:36 EST news281874267 Although they have an important impact on children's health and education, school-based deworming programmes have a limited impact on the level of infection in the wider community, according to a mathematical modeling study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-deworming-important-children-health-limited.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:00:02 EST news281289713 (HealthDay)—Physicians from the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), together with other health organizations, are urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to reconsider the age limit for access to Plan B One-Step emergency contraception. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-acog-hhs-reconsider-age-limit.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:50:01 EST news274541164 The U.S. preterm birth rate dropped for the fifth consecutive year in 2011 to 11.7 percent, the lowest in a decade, giving thousands more babies a healthy start in life and saving billions in health and social costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-preterm-birth-year.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:20:01 EST news271955966 Agreement by governments, by the end of 2012, on a set of ambitious global targets to curb the growing scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which includes cardiovascular disease (CVD; heart disease and stroke), is critical to avoiding the millions of premature deaths worldwide. This, according to a new paper published by the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce a group of eminent experts who represent five leading heart-health organizations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cardiovascular-disease-tougher-curb-global.html Cardiology Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:40:05 EST news267169199 Since 1992, the government's Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University of Missouri injury prevention researcher says that safe, separate sleep environments for infants are critical to preventing sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-safe-environments-key-infant-deaths.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:40:01 EST news254072207 (HealthDay) -- Screening people at high risk for lung cancer could be at least as cost-effective as screening for breast, colorectal and cervical cancers, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-lung-cancer-screening-analysis.html Cancer Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:40:01 EST news253207319 Communicating with patients who do not speak English is a challenge facing all health care providers. New research shows that even those physicians who say they are fluent in a second language may be overestimating their actual skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctors-overrate-language.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:20:01 EST news238922450 Binge drinking among college students has long been viewed as dangerous and destructive. Government and non-profit health organizations spend millions of dollars annually on public service announcements (PSAs) aimed at dissuading college students from hazardous drinking habits. These organizations primarily use "loss-framed", or negative messages to show the dangers of binge drinking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-college-students-positive-anti-binge-messages.html Health Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:11:51 EST news226152701 As the presence of social media continues to increase as a form of communication, health organizations are searching for the most effective ways to use the online tools to pass important information to the public. Now, researchers at the University of Missouri have found that nonprofit organizations and community groups appear to be more actively engaged in posting health information and interacting with the public on Twitter than other types of health-related organizations, such as health business corporations, educational institutions and government agencies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nonprofit-health-literacy-social-media.html Health Wed, 04 May 2011 10:38:41 EST news223724302