http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Patients who complain of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms often face a diagnosis of either gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or functional dyspepsia. Because the two conditions often overlap, it can be difficult to distinguish between them and diagnose them properly. Yet ambulatory care facilities and hospitals have reported a dramatic increase in the number of GERD-related visits/discharges in recent years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-physicians-bias-stomach-problems.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:34:46 EST news239276078 University of Adelaide research has shown for the first time that obesity directly causes electrical abnormalities of the heart. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-links-obesity-heart-rhythm-disorder.html Cardiology Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:21:22 EST news232705236 A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-shorter-cpr-defibrillator-cardiac-survival.html Cardiology Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:00:11 EST news227793421 In the United States, older patients with advanced lung cancer make much less use of hospital and emergency room services at the end of life than their counterparts in Ontario but use far more chemotherapy, according to a study published May 18th online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-life-cancer-patients-differs-canada.html Health Wed, 18 May 2011 17:31:36 EST news224958674 Greater powers introduced by the government to enable specially trained nurses and pharmacists to prescribe medication in England have been successfully adopted, according to a new report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-wide-reaching-strong-nurse-pharmacist.html Other Tue, 10 May 2011 09:25:22 EST news224238306