http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics. The relationships are complicated by the fact that many of these characteristics may also be associated with areas of decreased access to care and local resources and not inherently based on implicit biases. Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington wanted to know the effect access to care had on lung cancer mortality among blacks and whites in the United States. In a recent study published in the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's Journal of Thoracic Oncology (JTO) researchers found lower mortality was associated with higher primary care provider density. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-lung-cancer-mortality-linked-primary.html Cancer Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:04:35 EST news285869066 The rate of stillbirths in British Columbia, Canada, increased by 31% over a decade, although the rate of spontaneous stillbirths did not increase, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-stillbirth-significantly-spontaneous.html Health Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:07 EST news284638890 The commitment of Canadian premiers to lower generic drug prices is a major change in how the country prices generic drugs, and government should learn from past attempts, states an article published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-competitive-drug-prices-canada.html Medications Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:00:03 EST news272536021 Is there a link between the risk of breast cancer and the working environment? A study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health provides further evidence on this previously neglected research topic, confirming that certain occupations do pose a higher risk of breast cancer than others, particularly those that expose the worker to potential carcinogens and endocrine disrupters. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-job-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:00:01 EST news272473975 Japanese researchers at the RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) and their colleagues have identified 8 new loci associated with susceptibility to atopic dermatitis in the Japanese population. The findings, which appear in the journal Nature Genetics, advance our understanding of the genetic basis of the skin disorder, which affects millions of children and adults around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-genome-wide-susceptibility-loci-atopic-dermatitis.html Genetics Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:58:36 EST news268837101 Whether your neighbourhood is conducive to walking could determine your risk for developing diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-diabetes-higher-neighborhoods-arent-walk-friendly.html Diabetes Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:09:08 EST news267116939 Researchers have found that a bacterium that emerged centuries ago in Europe has now been spreading globally into countries undergoing rapid development and industrialization. Unlike other diarrheal diseases, this one is unlikely to be resolved by providing access to clean water. As developing countries become more industrialized the numbers of infections with dysentery-causing Shigella flexneri are known to decline, associated with improved health, lifestyle and perhaps most importantly access to clean water, but the incidence of another form of the dysentery-causing bacterium, Shigella sonnei, actually increases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-dysentery-europe-industrializing-countries.html Genetics Sun, 05 Aug 2012 13:00:01 EST news263387118 Under pressure from civil society organizations, the Brazilian government has introduced legislation to protect and improve its traditional food system, standing in contrast to the governments of many industrialized countries that have partly surrendered their prime duty to protect public health to transnational food companies, argue nutrition and public health experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-brazil-laws-big-food-snack.html Health Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:00:05 EST news260553086 Canada's ranking in international child health indexes would dramatically improve if measurements were standardized, according to a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McGill University, the University of Calgary, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, working with the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-international-infant-mortality-flawed.html Health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:01 EST news248675856 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 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) travelers have an increased risk of illness during trips to industrialized countries, but not to developing or tropical regions, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-ibd-higher-intestinal-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:52:51 EST news246707562 An analytical technique using high brilliance infrared light produced by the SOLEIL synchrotron has been developed by teams from the CNRS, Paris Sud University, Tenon Hospital in Paris, and the Stoke-on-Trent Cancer Centre (GB) to study the calcification present in the kidneys of patients with renal failure. The results show that it is now possible to identify different types of calcification, some of which are specific to diseases that can be treated. If this information is obtained early, the patients concerned can be treated on time and avoid kidney loss and an eventual kidney transplant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-earlier-diagnosis-kidney-transplants.html Medical research Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:20:04 EST news241797397 Environmental toxicants such as dioxins, PCBs, and pesticides can pose a risk for cardiovascular disease. For the first time a link has been demonstrated between atherosclerosis and levels of long-lived organic environmental toxicants in the blood. The study, carried out by researchers at Uppsala University, is being published online this week in ahead of print in the prestigious journal Environmental Health Perspectives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-link-shown-environmental-toxicants-atherosclerosis.html Health Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:03:20 EST news237556982 Combination vaccines for young children are commonly used in industrialized nations because they provide protection for multiple diseases in one single injection. However, combination vaccines are prohibitively expensive for developing countries and may not available until several years later, or when market prices are more affordable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-combination-vaccine-accessibility-worldwide.html Medications Mon, 09 May 2011 15:49:02 EST news224174922