http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Latest research points to the high risk for mental health problems among staff working in humanitarian organizations in northern Uganda, due in large part to their work environment. A new study by researchers at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health examined the mental health of 376 Ugandan workers at 21 humanitarian aid agencies and found that a significant number of the staff at these organizations experienced high levels of symptoms for depression (68%), anxiety disorders (53%), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (26%), respectively. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-humanitarian-aid-workers-uganda-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:00:01 EST news278959803 Emergency aid has failed to address the needs of older people in emergency situations and so donors and humanitarian agencies must urgently ensure that this vulnerable group is included in any emergency response, according to experts from the humanitarian organizations Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) and HelpAge International writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-humanitarian-older-people-emergencies.html Health Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:01:41 EST news275072492 Outbreaks of infectious diseases, such as swine flu (H1N1) threaten global health and should be considered by funding agencies and humanitarian organizations as development issues rather than emergency situations, requiring long-term support and investment, according to US experts writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-long-term-health-tackle-infectious-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:00:02 EST news274465324 Increasingly humanitarian organizations will find themselves responding to health emergencies provoked by the adverse effects of mining and other extractive industries, setting up a potential clash to do with the core principles and values at the heart of humanitarian medicine, writes Philippe Calain from the humanitarian medical organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-adverse-effects-industry-provoke-hard.html Health Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:00:17 EST news265374370