http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-analgesics-heavily-women-men.html Medications Tue, 21 May 2013 09:00:01 EST news288344801 In a study to be presented on February 16 at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting, in San Francisco, researchers will report findings that suggest around-the-clock labor and delivery coverage decreased the odds of cesarean delivery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-around-the-clock-labor-coverage-decrease-c-section.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:00:03 EST news279800872 (HealthDay)—Patients undergoing inpatient lumbar discectomy have significantly higher overall complication rates than those treated as outpatients, according to a study published in the Feb. 1 issue of Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-complications-inpatient-lumbar-discectomy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:00:01 EST news279204240 (HealthDay)—For women whose infants are delivered by vacuum extraction, the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) is significantly higher among nulliparous women than multiparous women, according to a study published online Aug. 13 in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-oasis-nulliparous-women-vacuum-delivery.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:50:02 EST news265033611 The International and American Associations for Dental Research have released in its Journal of Dental Research a study that investigated bone fluoride levels in individuals with osteosarcoma, which is a rare, primary malignant bone tumor that is more prevalent in males. Since there has been controversy as to whether there is an association between fluoride and risk for osteosarcoma, the purpose of this study, titled "An Assessment of Bone Fluoride and Osteosarcoma," was to determine if bone fluoride levels were higher in individuals with osteosarcoma. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-bone-fluoride-osteosarcoma.html Cancer Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:24:27 EST news231074653 A positive outlook on life might lower your risk of having a stroke, according to new research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-optimism.html Cardiology Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:35:45 EST news230484935 Results of a study, involving 98,454 patients demonstrated that at 30 days following their first heart attack, RA patients were approximately 20% less likely to be prescribed standard MI treatments, such as statins and betablockers, compared to healthy patients. These finding remained relatively unchanged at 180 days, further highlighting differences between the two groups, with a high number being prescribed the current standards of care within the 180 day period (statins 80%, betablockers 82%, clopidogrel 70%, aspirin 79%) in general. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-undertreatment-cardiovascular-disease-rheumatoid-arthritis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 27 May 2011 04:48:02 EST news225690471