http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at LWL-University Hospital in Bochum, Germany have found that male volunteers looking at photographs of human eyes were better at guessing the "mood" of the person in the picture, if the person in them was also male. This, the researchers suggest in their paper published in the journal PLUS ONE, indicates that men are better able to read the mood of fellow males than females. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-men-emotions-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:40:02 EST news285232738 A new three-dimensional (3-D) digital mammography technique has the potential to significantly improve the accuracy of breast cancer screening, according to a study published in Radiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-stereoscopic-mammography-recall.html Cancer Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:07 EST news271955825 University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made an exciting finding in the "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration known as geographic atrophy (GA). GA is an untreatable condition that causes blindness in millions of individuals due to death of retinal pigmented epithelial cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-major-breakthrough-macular-degeneration.html Medical research Mon, 06 Aug 2012 15:00:01 EST news263483334 A Purdue University student's research project related to zebrafish eye development could lead to a better understanding of vision problems that affect billions of people worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-fish-eye-view-insights-human-vision.html Ophthalmology Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:39:38 EST news263129971 University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made a major breakthrough in the "dry" form of age-related macular degeneration known as geographic atrophy (GA). GA is an untreatable condition that causes blindness in millions of individuals due to death of retinal pigmented epithelial cells. The paper, "DICER1 loss and Alu RNA Induce Age-Related Macular Degeneration via the NLRP3 Inflammasome and MyD88," was published in the April 26 online edition of the premier journal Cell. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-major-breakthrough-macular-degeneration.html Medical research Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:46:04 EST news254663104