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Experts from Kingston University and St George's, University of London, have launched a study to examine whether people caring for family members who have had a stroke feel the social care services designed to support them, work well. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-caretakers-survivors-social.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:21:30 EST news282907284 Researchers in Manchester have found a link between several lifestyle factors and pre-existing conditions, including smoking cigarettes and diabetes, and an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-links-lifestyle-rheumatoid-arthritis.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:39:57 EST news282821986 Women in Saudi Arabia, who suffer heart attacks, are delaying life-saving treatment because they need a man's permission to travel to hospital, new research by the University of Ulster has revealed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-cultural-taboos-saudi-women.html Health Fri, 15 Mar 2013 08:05:19 EST news282553511 Status updates, patient forums, blog comments – among the incredible amount of personal information on the Web is a potential trove of health data. Bioethicists writing in Science Translational Medicine acknowledge the value of this resource but argue that to be ethically acceptable for use in research, traditional models of informed consent must be adapted to suit the dynamic online environment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-online-health.html Other Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:03:27 EST news280591394 vast collections of human tissue samples that scientists hope will lead to new treatments for diseases – have a right to basic information about how their donations may be used, a Michigan State University ethicist argues in a new paper. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-safeguards-tissue-donors.html Other Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:05:04 EST news278597090 (Medical Xpress)—Smokers who quit when they are young adults can live almost as long as people who never smoked, groundbreaking new research has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-smokers-age-lifespan-people.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:02:43 EST news278247755 (Medical Xpress)—A new report by the University of Exeter Medical School researchers sheds light on how health and social care arrangements can avoid hospital admissions or enable people to leave hospital earlier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-intermediate-health-social-enable-closer.html Health Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:28:58 EST news278062131 In a new study published today in JAMA Pediatrics (formerly Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine), Kaiser Permanente researchers found that 49 percent of children ages 2-24 months did not receive all recommended vaccinations or did not get vaccinated according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices schedule. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-children-years-age-vaccinations-late.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:00:01 EST news277987127 A major new report on joint commissioning in health and social care has found the perceived benefits of collaborative working, such as efficiency savings and improvements to services, often lagged behind the reality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-benefits-joint-commissioning-lag-reality.html Other Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:23:42 EST news276935013 In order to study the effectiveness or cost effectiveness of treatments for recurrent cancer, you first have to discover the patients in medical databases who have recurrent cancer. Generally studies do this with billing or treatment codes – certain codes should identify who does and does not have recurrent cancer. A recent study published in the journal Medical Care shows that the commonly used data determinants of recurrent cancer may be misidentifying patients and potentially leading researchers astray. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-common-recurrent-cancer-broken.html Cancer Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:18:59 EST news276358731 (AP)—A Caribbean trade bloc says it has merged five different health research agencies into a single office that has already attracted nearly $10 million in aid. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-caricom-health-agency-trinidad.html Health Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:13:26 EST news275224400 (Edmonton) Make no mistake, Alex Clark and Lionel Messi were not separated at birth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-soccer-health.html Health Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:42:51 EST news274970563 Researchers at the University of Southampton are to undertake a new stage of a study aimed at improving the health and mobility of those suffering from the common complaint of 'walking on marbles' associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) in the feet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-marbles-arthritis-patients.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:26:10 EST news273241559 Technology may soon be helping seniors to live longer, healthier lives. A trio of researchers, including Simon Fraser University's Andrew Sixsmith, is working to develop intelligent, interactive sensors to be embedded in seniors' homes and used to support independent living. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-canada-europe-fund-intelligent-senior.html Health Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:04:38 EST news271591461 Army personnel who become ill during deployment are just as likely to develop mental health problems on their return to the UK, as personnel who are injured, according to new research from the King's Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) at King's College London, published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-illness-military-deployment-linked-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:12:19 EST news270382323 The number of children admitted to hospital in England for acute throat infections increased by 76 per cent between 1999 and 2010, according to new research published today in Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sharp-children-hospital-throat-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:47:37 EST news269862439 A new study led by the University of Leicester, in association with colleagues at Loughborough University, has discovered that sitting for long periods increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease and death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-protracted-periods-diabetes-heart-disease.html Diabetes Mon, 15 Oct 2012 05:12:37 EST news269496737 Should every primary school pupil in the UK be given a hearing test and what's the most effective way of doing it? These are questions that a team of academics from Nottingham and Exeter will be tackling as part of a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-school-good.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:55:18 EST news268998792 (Medical Xpress)—Mandatory physician reporting of patients who may be medically unfit to drive led to a substantial decrease in serious road crashes, according to a new study from the School of Medicine and the University of Toronto. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-physicians-unfit-drivers.html Health Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:00:01 EST news267957900 The current practice of large donors is forcing the World Health Organization and the World Bank to reflect on how to reform to remain more appealing to the wider set of stakeholders and interests at play, according to Devi Sridhar from the University of Oxford writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-large-donors-world-health-reform.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:00:01 EST news267808475 Improved home care resources for people with conditions such as dementia, who would prefer to die at home, are key to providing better end of life care and reducing the strain of the UK's ageing population on the NHS, according to researchers at King's College London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-palliative-experts-home.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:44:18 EST news267785051 GPs are not always using the most comprehensive and reliable online resources to support them in treating patients with the debilitating hearing condition tinnitus, researchers have found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gps-unreliable-websites-tinnitus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:47:14 EST news266672823 Hearing and balance-related problems are often chronic conditions which can be managed but not always cured. Now new guidance by the British Society of Audiology – devised in collaboration with the National Institute for Health Research – promises to improve quality of life for patients with hearing and balance problems and tinnitus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-guidance-patients-problems-tinnitus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:49:12 EST news265625343 Researchers at the University of Leicester have announced that the UK's first operation to tackle heart failure (HF) with a novel nerve-stimulating device will be performed today (Thursday August 23) at Glenfield Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-uk-tackle-heart-failure-nerve-stimulating.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:41:29 EST news264915604 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have received a $1.5 million federal grant to examine the relationship between zoning code reforms, the physical environment, and physical-activity behavior in communities throughout the U.S. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-zoning-code-reforms-physical.html Health Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:27:35 EST news264745644 Chronic infections are a large and growing problem throughout the developed world, and intensive research is being conducted in ways to combat the recalcitrant bacteria. When bacteria aggregate into so-called biofilm, they become resistant to antibiotics. Until now scientists have only been able to speculate about what happens when bacteria overpower the immune system during a chronic infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-scientific-method-unmasks-chronic-infections.html Medical research Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:54:29 EST news263645661 Most people who have diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol have difficultly managing all three conditions; indeed, success is fleeting for those who do manage all three, according to a Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Research study that appears online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-people-difficulty-multiple-chronic-conditions.html Cardiology Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:30:01 EST news262967709 Unplanned admissions make up approximately 40 per cent of hospital admissions in England and can increase problems for health services as they are costly, disruptive, and lengthen waiting lists. New research, published today has evaluated several key interventions aimed at reducing unplanned admissions and identified those which are most effective. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-effective-methods-unplanned-hospital-admissions.html Other Wed, 11 Jul 2012 05:11:07 EST news261202250 (HealthDay) -- More U.S. elementary schools are banning unhealthy beverages from the premises, according to a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-schools-unhealthy.html Health Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:40:02 EST news260726120 (Medical Xpress) -- No drug treatments exist to treat sleep apnea, a disorder that affects more than 18 million Americans. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing are working to change that. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-cannabinoid-drug-nausea-chemotherapy-relieve.html Sleep apnea Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:30:02 EST news259477982