http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. If Don Stein were the kind of man who listened to what others said, he would have shut down his lab years ago. The Emory neuroscientist spent more than two decades investigating progesterone as a treatment for traumatic brain injury (TBI)—a pursuit that was unappreciated at best and maligned at worst. A naturally occurring hormone was too simple a solution to too complex a problem, according to the prevailing wisdom. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-hormone-brain-injury.html Medical research Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:11:03 EST news286017053 Heart disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the United States, and a sedentary lifestyle is often cited as a major contributing factor. Among the Tsimane, an indigenous population in the lowlands of Bolivia's Amazon basin, however, indicators of heart disease are practically non-existent –– cholesterol is low, obesity is rare, and smoking is uncommon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-anthropologists-effects-modernization-physical-heart.html Health Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:26:36 EST news278936693 US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukemia by pioneering the use of an unlikely ally: a modified form of the HIV virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-doctors-defeat-leukemia-hiv.html Medical research Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:52:39 EST news274456348 (Medical Xpress)—New cases of C. difficile-associated diarrhea among hospitalized patients taking antibiotics can be reduced by two-thirds with the use of probiotics, according to new research published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-probiotics-potential-minimize-difficile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:05:25 EST news272009113 (Medical Xpress)—A team of investigators led by UC Davis found that eating soy products such as soy milk and tofu did not prevent the onset of hot flashes and night sweats as women entered menopause. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-soy-effect-menopausal-hot.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:56:31 EST news270981841 More than 40 plant-based compounds can turn on genes that slow the spread of cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by a Washington State University researcher. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-documents-links-nutrients-genes-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:54:51 EST news265298083 A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-hiv-behavioral-strategies-apa.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 14 May 2012 13:56:00 EST news256222504 An expert panel at the Institute of Food Technologists' Wellness 12 meeting urged the food industry to find simple yet powerful language to tell consumers about the many benefits of a diet rich in phytonutrients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-consumers-simple-concise-messages-benefits.html Health Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:17:48 EST news252775062 The overall quality of a pregnant woman's diet is linked with risk for two types of serious birth defects, a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has shown. In the study, women who ate better before and during pregnancy gave birth to fewer infants with malformations of the brain and spinal cord, or orofacial clefts, such as cleft lip and cleft palate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-quality-pregnant-woman-diet-affects.html Health Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:16:32 EST news236877381