http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Pregnant mothers' exposure to the flu was associated with a nearly fourfold increased risk that their child would develop bipolar disorder in adulthood, in a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings add to mounting evidence of possible shared underlying causes and illness processes with schizophrenia, which some studies have also linked to prenatal exposure to influenza. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-flu-pregnancy-quadruple-child-bipolar.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 14 May 2013 09:16:32 EST news287741770 American adults who prepare their own meals and exercise on the same day are likely spending more time on one of those activities at the expense of the other, a new study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-dinner-adults-healthy.html Health Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:30:57 EST news284985050 (HealthDay)—For patients with invasive, non-metastatic colorectal cancer, increased recreational physical activity is associated with reduced all-cause mortality, while prolonged sedentary time correlates with increased all-cause mortality, according to a study published online Jan. 22 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-physical-mortality-colorectal-cancer-survivors.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:40:01 EST news278176951 Women who exercise regularly spend as much time sitting as women who don't, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-physically-women.html Health Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:20:03 EST news270929054 High blood pressure, blood sugar, blood lipids, and body mass index—characteristics that are often lumped together as the metabolic syndrome—are jointly linked with an increased risk of dying from prostate cancer. That is the conclusion of a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. The study's results suggest that public health recommendations regarding diet and lifestyle to prevent heart disease and diabetes may also decrease a man's likelihood of dying from prostate cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-metabolic-factors-men-dying-prostate.html Cancer Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:20:30 EST news270094792 A group of experts has developed consensus recommendations for future research directions to determine why nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are women. The recommendations are published in a Roundtable discussion in Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-alzheimer-disease-affect-women-men.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:36:34 EST news266060179