http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Popular media perspectives on traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in sports like ice hockey has changed over time and may influence people's attitudes towards these injuries, according to research published April 17 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Michael Cusimano and colleagues from St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-news-focus-aggression-ice-hockey.html Health Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:00:07 EST news285429834 The popular perception that college students are reaching new levels of self-indulgence and risky behavior during spring break excursions may be based on media coverage and scholarship that oversimplifies what has become an annual rite for many young adults, according to researchers. The researchers, who analyzed studies on spring break from 1980 to 2010, concluded that scholars are divided on whether college students actually increase extreme behaviors during the break. In fact, activities at most spring break destinations may not differ significantly from typical weekend behavior on campuses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-portrayal-excess-stereotypes-wild.html Health Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:48:39 EST news277577311 Newspaper coverage of biomedical research leans heavily toward reports of initial findings, which are frequently attenuated or refuted by later studies, leading to disproportionate media coverage of potentially misleading early results, according to a report published Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-newspapers-biased-early-refuted.html Other Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:00:42 EST news266688025 Press releases and news stories reporting the results of randomized controlled trials often contain "spin"—specific reporting strategies (intentional or unintentional) emphasizing the beneficial effect of the experimental treatment—but such "spin" frequently comes from the abstract (summary) of the actual study published in a scientific journal, rather than being related to misinterpretation by the media, according to French researchers writing in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-media-scientific-articles.html Other Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:00:02 EST news266597717 (Medical Xpress)—The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn has led to a device that rapidly cools body temperature, greatly improves exercise recovery, and could help explain why muscles get tired. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-stanford-cooling-glove-steroids.html Medical research Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:37:19 EST news265538222 A groundbreaking new research study from Indiana University suggests there may be benefits to the controversial activities of "pro-ana" bloggers, the online community for people with eating disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-pro-anorexic-bloggers-groundbreaking.html Health Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:24:43 EST news264673475 "Journals, professional associations, clinical guideline developers, and others need to worry not just that disclosure provides a band-aid to the real problem of the [conflict of interest] itself, but that any attempt to stem the trouble through disclosure policies may actually be worsening the problem," say the editors of PLoS Medicine writing in an editorial that discusses the response to a paper published in the Journal last month, which examined the financial conflicts of interest of members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) responsible for updating the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-disclosure-financial-conflicts-worsen-medical.html Other Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:00:01 EST news254505557 While smoking remains legal, the number of smokers is never going to fall significantly, argues public health doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-doctor-tabloids-publish-daily-death.html Health Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:09:24 EST news238788499