http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Among HIV patients receiving well-organized care with free access to antiretroviral therapy, those who smoke lose more years of life to smoking than to HIV, according to a Danish study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available online. The findings highlight the importance of smoking cessation efforts in the long-term, integrated care of patients infected with HIV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-hiv-patients-years-life-infection.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:02 EST news275073204 OAKLAND, Calif. − Protection against whooping cough (also called pertussis) waned during the five years after the fifth dose of the combined diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine, according to researchers from the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center. The fifth dose of DTaP is routinely given to 4- to 6-year-old children prior to starting kindergarten. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-whooping-waned-years-dose-dtap.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:04 EST news266682863 A brief therapeutic intervention called motivational interviewing, administered over the telephone, was significantly more effective than a simple "check-in" call in getting Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with mental health diagnoses to begin treatment for their conditions, in a study led by a physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-therapy-technique-iraq-afghanistan-veterans.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:17 EST news262538110 The herpes zoster vaccine, also known as the shingles vaccine, is generally safe and well tolerated according to a Vaccine Safety Datalink study of 193,083 adults published online in the Journal of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-shingles-vaccine-safe.html Medications Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:18:31 EST news254391504 Having a new baby brings much joy to a new family. But for a family whose baby cries for hours on end, fusses through feedings, or has difficulty sleeping, the joy may be overshadowed by feelings of helplessness and frustration. The treatment of that infant – and that family – will impact the parent-child relationship for years to come. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-efficacy-treatment-women-infants.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:33:49 EST news254057619 (HealthDay) -- Alcohol or sedative use during chronic opioid therapy (COT) for non-cancer pain puts patients at risk for adverse events such as respiratory depression or sedation, and the risk of concurrent use of central nervous system (CNS) depressants is not limited to patients with a history of substance abuse, according to a study published in the March issue of The Journal of Pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-alcohol-opioids-common-abuse.html Addiction Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:25:11 EST news253815902 (Medical Xpress) -- Patients simultaneously treated for both Type 2 diabetes and depression improve medication compliance and significantly improve blood sugar and depression levels compared to patients receiving usual care, according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Of patients receiving integrated care combined with a brief period of intervention to assist with adherence to prescribed medication regimens, more than 60 percent had improved blood sugar test results and 58 percent had reduced depression symptoms, compared to only 36 percent and 31 percent, respectively, of patients receiving usual care. The full results of the study are published in the January/February issue of The Annals of Family Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-concurrent-treatment-diabetes-depression-significantly.html Health Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:11:02 EST news245398250 Routine screening for depression in primary care patients has not been shown to be beneficial or an effective use of scarce health care resources, which would be better focused on providing more consistent treatment of people with depression, concludes an analysis in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-routine-screening-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:11 EST news235660441 Multidisciplinary integrated care of seniors in residential care facilities resulted in better quality of care, found a Dutch study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-multidisciplinary-seniors-quality.html Health Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:39:00 EST news228397125 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who visited a VA integrated care clinic were much more likely to undergo initial mental health and social work evaluations than veterans who visited a standard VA primary care clinic, according to a study led by a San Francisco VA Medical Center researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-one-stop-clinic-ups-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:27:13 EST news226938411