http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics. The relationships are complicated by the fact that many of these characteristics may also be associated with areas of decreased access to care and local resources and not inherently based on implicit biases. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington wanted to know the effect access to care had on lung cancer mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. In a recent study published in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) researchers found lower mortality was associated with higher primary care provider density. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-lung-cancer-mortality-linked-primary.html Cancer Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:04:35 EST news285869066 Everyday, news reports detail the impact of the deficiencies in the nation's mental health care services. Even more startling, a survey from the University of Michigan reveals that many adults across the U.S. believe children and teens have extremely limited or no access to appropriate mental health care services. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-access-mental-health-lacking-children.html Health Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:15:05 EST news284138062 German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer, maker of Aspirin, vowed Monday to fight a ruling by the patent authorities in India allowing a local company to produce and sell a generic copy of its anti-cancer drug Nexavar. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-bayer-vows-patent-anti-cancer-drug.html Medications Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:17:23 EST news281618226 Drug companies spent nearly $84 million marketing pharmaceuticals in the District of Columbia in 2011, including an outlay of nearly $19 million for gifts given to physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, according to a report by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS). The report notes that 12 physicians in the District received gifts (including consulting payments) that totaled more than $100,000 apiece that one year alone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-pharmaceutical-companies-million-effort-district.html Medications Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:00:01 EST news281290180 Care homes and NHS healthcare services must work more closely together to improve levels of care for older people, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-homes-nhs.html Health Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:04:53 EST news277459487 A new study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows, that a technique for measuring bone density called digital X-ray radiogrammetry (or DXR) used on standard hand radiographs can help to identify patients with a higher risk of hip fracture. The researchers believe that DXR, which is fully comparable with other, more costly methods, can be used preventively to identify people in the risk zone for osteoporosis – a disease estimated to effect some 200 million women worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-method-bone-density-hip-fractures.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Nov 2012 10:46:46 EST news272544389 (Medical Xpress)—Leading clinicians and health researchers from across Europe say much greater emphasis must be placed on the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of treatments and other healthcare interventions to ensure patients receive the best care available. The call is contained in a Science Policy Briefing published by the European Medical Research Councils, which also made ten key recommendations on how to improve the quality of research and healthcare in Europe. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-european-experts-rigorous-scientific-evidence.html Health Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:30:17 EST news270205899 (Medical Xpress) -- Increases in copayments of only a few dollars for ALL Kids, Alabama's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), led to declines in the use of several healthcare services for the children they affected, reveals a study in Health Services Research. Use of services within ALL Kids with no increase in copayments did not decline, nor was a decline in services observed for children whose copayments did not rise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-small-copays-affect-children-healthcare.html Health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:32:53 EST news248689958 Scots of Pakistani origin are 50 per cent more likely to be admitted to hospital with chest pain and angina than those of Indian ethnicity, a study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-heart-disease-highlights-scottish-ethnic.html Cardiology Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:32:39 EST news243693139 The Norwegian healthcare services are organized in primary and secondary service levels. According to PhD student Kristin Laugaland at UiS effective and safe care depends on coordination across the two service levels in which transitions across them represent a crucial stage in the recovery of elderly people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-if-coordination-fails.html Health Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:19:53 EST news238328365 Referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies seems to cut their use of healthcare services and the amount of sick leave they take, suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-referral-therapies-health-sick.html Health Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:07:47 EST news236887660 The events of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way Americans travel and view the world. They may also have made us sicker and more likely to access healthcare services, according to a new UC Irvine study http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-illness-doctor-years-sept.html Health Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:30:46 EST news231150625 Parkinson's Disease, brought to public awareness by figures such as Michael J. Fox, is not just difficult to diagnose. It's also difficult to accurately estimate how many people actually suffer from the disease. Current statistics come from small-scale studies, usually based on information from hospital clinics, and no registries or formal databases exist to track how many people have the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-accurate-parkinson.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:47:58 EST news228570468 Swim centre personnel and lifeguards have higher stamina and carry out cardiopulmonary resuscitation more effectively than personnel in the emergency healthcare services, even though they have undergone extreme exertion. Their life-saving efforts may be crucial while waiting for an ambulance. This is the conclusion of research carried out at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-extreme-exertion-impair-quality-cpr.html Other Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:20:06 EST news227265591 A new study finds that the cancer care provided by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) for men 65 years and older is at least as good as, and by some measures better than, Medicare-funded fee-for-service care obtained through the private sector. The study, reported in the June 7 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, was led by Nancy Keating, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-veterans-health-administration-similar-private.html Health Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:54:31 EST news226601659