http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Busselton residents and researchers from The University of Western Australia have helped a worldwide scientific collaboration identify new genes associated with height and obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-obesity-height-genes.html Genetics Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:47:33 EST news284622445 Even if you didn't eat your veggies or drink your milk as a child, your height is still in your hands, reveal new findings by economists from the University of Southern California, Harvard University and Peking University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-shorter-adult-health-habits-age.html Health Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:18:51 EST news284030253 (HealthDay)—Parents often worry when their child, especially a son, is much shorter than average. But as long as there is no medical cause, parents can rest easy, experts say. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-short-stature-childhood-discussed.html Health Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:12:16 EST news283630327 Finding Mr. or Ms. Right is a complicated process, and choosing a mate may involve compromising on less important factors like their height. However, research published January 16 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Gert Stulp and colleagues from the University of Groningen, Netherlands suggests that despite the many other factors involved, people's preferences for a partner's height are reflected in real couples in the UK. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-shorter-woman-taller-partner-height.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:00:01 EST news277577821 An international team of genetics researchers has discovered four new gene regions that contribute to low birth weight. Three of those regions influence adult metabolism, and appear to affect longer-term outcomes such as adult height, risk of type 2 diabetes and adult blood pressure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-genes-linked-birth-weight-adult.html Genetics Sun, 02 Dec 2012 13:00:56 EST news273666993 Children who use inhaled steroid drugs for asthma end up slightly shorter at their full adult height than children who don't use the drugs, new results from a comprehensive asthma study show. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-children-steroids-asthma-slightly-shorter.html Immunology Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:16:02 EST news265882549 (HealthDay)—For people with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures, kyphoplasty (KP) is superior to vertebroplasty (VP) for correcting kyphosis, restoring vertebral height, and preventing leakage of bone cement, according to research published in the August issue of the Journal of Spinal Disorders & Techniques. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-kyphoplasty-superior-vertebroplasty-vertebral-fx.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:40:01 EST news265303946 (Medical Xpress) -- Taller women are at a greater risk of ovarian cancer, a large study has found after bringing together all the evidence from clinical studies carried out worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-height-body-mass-index-factors.html Cancer Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:00:07 EST news252689028 When people in the U.S. are asked to provide their weight for research surveys, they underestimate their weight and overestimate their height, despite numerous public reports about increasing rates of obesity. Whites are more likely to do so than Blacks or Hispanics, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-people-fudge-weight-height-surveys.html Health Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:30:02 EST news246876979 After the huge 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the chairman of BP referred to the victims of the spill as the "small people." He explained it as awkward word choice by a non-native speaker of English, but the authors of a new paper published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, wondered if there was something real behind it. In their study, they found that people who feel powerful tend to overestimate their own height—they feel physically larger than they actually are. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-powerful-people-taller.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:24:52 EST news246561885 New research sifts through the entire genome of thousands of human subjects to look for genetic variation associated with height. The results of the study, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, suggest that uncommon genetic deletions are associated with short stature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-short-stature-shortage-genes.html Genetics Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:35:58 EST news241274101 A study of more than 800,000 young adults found that obesity and height increased the risk of having low back pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-obesity-height-linked-pain.html Health Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:10:01 EST news239809000 (Medical Xpress) -- Taller people are at increased risk of a wide range of cancers, according to new research led by Oxford University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-height-clue-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:55:04 EST news230543693 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that the way we live directly affects the length of our bodies – and our lives. The research, which is published today in a new book ‘The Changing Body’ (Cambridge University Press), has been conducted over the past 30 years and confirms that there is a clear link between height and longevity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-published-link-height-longevity.html Medical research Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:14:58 EST news221469270