http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New research shows a drug commonly used to treat sickle cell anemia in adults reduces bouts of acute pain and a pneumonia-like illness, cuts hospitalization time and eases other symptoms of the disease in young patients. Results of the randomized, double-blind trial mark a dramatic advance in treatment of children with the inherited blood disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sickle-cell-anemia-drug-safe.html Medications Thu, 12 May 2011 18:30:01 EST news224428066 Pediatricians from Johns Hopkins Children's Center and elsewhere have discovered a link between low levels of vitamin D and anemia in children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-vitamin-d-kids-role-anemia.html Health Mon, 02 May 2011 04:33:53 EST news223529610 Using a combination of Facebook-like tools and personally controlled health records, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have engaged members of an online diabetes social network as participants in public health surveillance. In an article published April 27 in PLoS ONE, Elissa Weitzman, ScD, MSc, and Kenneth Mandl, MD, MPH, of the Children's Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP) show that health-focused social networks can be viable resources for chronic disease surveillance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-online-social-network-members-donate.html Other Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:24:23 EST news223143846 An investigational combination of drugs already approved to treat obesity, migraine and epilepsy produced up to a 10 percent weight loss in obese individuals participating in a one-year clinical trial, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-experimental-drug-unprecedented-weight-loss.html Medical research Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:53:56 EST news221712793