http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a controversial chemical widely used in the plastics industry. A new study followed people over a 10-year time period and shows that healthy people with higher urine concentrations of BPA were more likely to later develop heart disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-bisphenol-exposure-future-onset-heart.html Cardiology Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:00:43 EST news249213630 Short-term exposure (for up to 7 days) to all major air pollutants, with the exception of ozone, is significantly associated with an increased risk of heart attack, according to a review and meta-analysis of previous studies appearing in the February 15 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-short-term-exposure-major-air-pollutants.html Health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:00:09 EST news248448728 Natural food does not always mean safe food. EU-funded researchers have discovered that the compounds found in some botanicals and botanical preparations, such as plant food supplements, may be detrimental to one's health. The study is presented in the journal Food and Nutrition Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-food-supplements-spotlight.html Health Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:13:55 EST news247392816 Researchers have released a preliminary report on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster on the surrounding areas, following radiation levels for approximately three months following the event and surveying more than 5,000 people in the region. The report was published in the Nov. 16 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-preliminary-fukushima-reveals-relative-safety.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:47:58 EST news240688070 Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers spotlight the human health effects of exposure to smoke from open fires and dirty cookstoves, the primary source of cooking and heating for 43 percent, or some 3 billion members, of the world's population. Women and young children in poverty are particularly vulnerable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-woodsmoke-cooking-linked-pneumonia-cognitive.html Health Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:30:05 EST news240154961 In a recent study by University of Kentucky researchers, watermelon was shown to reduce atherosclerosis in animals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-watermelon-atherosclerosis.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:10:58 EST news238939840 Research underway at the Trudeau Institute could lead to new treatments for people sickened by Listeria and other sepsis-causing bacteria. Dr. Stephen Smiley's laboratory has published a study in the scientific journal Infection and Immunity that supports a new approach to treating these infections. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-trudeau-approach-listeria-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:37:20 EST news238088231 A new interactive mobile phone app called DiabetesIQ, released this week, challenges people to test their knowledge of diabetes and to compete with one another as they learn about the complexities of the disease, which affects more than 25 million Americans, including 4 million Californians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-interactive-mobile-app-people-diabetes.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:37:35 EST news236263045 A new resource to define the roles of microRNAs is announced today in Nature Biotechnology. The resource, called mirKO, gives researchers access to tools to investigate the biological role and significance for human health of these enigmatic genes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-resource-role-micrornas.html Medical research Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:38:27 EST news231943084 Most synthetic chemical products used in consumer goods end up unchanged in the environment. Given the risks this could pose for the environment and human health, researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have developed a new tool to effectively predict what will happen to current and future pharmaceutical products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-environmental-effect-pharmaceutical-products.html Other Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:30:01 EST news231063740 More than 500,000 tonnes of onion waste are thrown away in the European Union each year. However, scientists say this could have a use as food ingredients. The brown skin and external layers are rich in fibre and flavonoids, while the discarded bulbs contain sulphurous compounds and fructans. All of these substances are beneficial to health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-onion-skin.html Cancer Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:41:51 EST news229858900 A new position paper by researchers at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health (ECEHH - part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry) and the University of Birmingham has compared the benefits of interaction with actual and virtual natural environments and concluded that the development of accurate simulations are likely to be beneficial to those who cannot interact with nature because of infirmity or other limitations: but virtual worlds are not a substitute for the real thing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-virtual-natural-environments-benefits-health.html Health Mon, 30 May 2011 03:37:18 EST news225945415 The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a suite of green tea reference materials to help manufacturers evaluate the composition of their products and assure researchers of the accuracy of analytical methods for studying the human health effects of this popular beverage and dietary supplement. The new standard reference materials (SRMs) were prepared as part of an ongoing collaboration with the National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nist-materials-green-tea.html Health Wed, 25 May 2011 14:24:37 EST news225552264