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(Medical Xpress)—Real-time social phenomenon, Twitter, can be a powerful tool to help prevent heart disease and improve health practices, according to a group of researchers affiliated with the University of Sydney. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-tweeting-heart-health.html Cardiology Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:20:01 EST news285310223 (Medical Xpress)—Surveys regularly reveal that, when asked about their greatest fear, people nominate blindness as one of the two things they dread most (cancer being the other). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-pain-neck.html Health Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:50:02 EST news284362728 One of the world's top medical journals has launched a campaign against overdiagnosis, where people are diagnosed with medical conditions they don't have and prescribed medicine they don't need. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-medical-alarm-onoverdiagnosis.html Health Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:10:01 EST news281181312 An initiative from the drugs regulator, the European Medicines Agency, to commit to releasing all of the information from clinical trials once the marketing authorization process has ended, which has been greeted with cautious optimism by proponents of access to data but with much less enthusiasm by the pharmaceutical industry, sparks an interesting debate on the role of medical journals in publishing drug data, according to the Editors of PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-greater-transparency-publishing-clinical-trials.html Other Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:00:03 EST news278687237 (HealthDay)—Antiseptics are meant to keep bacteria and other pathogens from entering the body through breaks in the skin, but sometimes these products can be contaminated with the very organisms they're supposed to guard against, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-antiseptic-products-contaminated.html Medications Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:50:01 EST news273991424 As the use of Twitter and other social media by physicians and patients rises, more and more physicians seem to forget to do what many consider crucial for building doctor-patient trust: disclose potential conflicts of interest. However, physicians are not entirely at fault: prominent medical societies have failed to lay out comprehensive guidelines for physicians on when and how to disclose a conflict of interest when utilizing social media. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-physicians-disclose-conflicts-social-media.html Other Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:44:52 EST news271921485 (Medical Xpress) -- A new University at Buffalo study of publications in the world's top five general medical journals finds that when clinical trials do not account for participants who dropped out, results are biased and may even lead to incorrect conclusions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-skewed-results-failure-account-clinical.html Other Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:28:17 EST news258874068 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Walter Bouwmeester of the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands and colleagues investigate the reporting and methods of prediction studies in 2008 in six top international general medical journals. The authors' findings reveal that the majority of prediction studies do not follow current methodological recommendations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-methods-guidelines.html Other Tue, 22 May 2012 18:03:26 EST news256928600 (HealthDay) -- Studies that show a type of antidepressant eases autism symptoms are more likely to get published in medical journals than studies concluding the drugs don't improve common behaviors such as rocking and hand-flapping, new research says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-bias-antidepressants-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:20:04 EST news254393421 The self-inflicted removal of one or both eyes, which has traditionally been attributed to sexual guilt, is, in fact, caused by untreated psychotic illness, such as schizophrenia, reveal researchers in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-self-inflicted-linked-oedipus-complex-untreated.html Ophthalmology Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:30:01 EST news249577136 Medication errors are common in primary care but the number of mistakes could be reduced significantly if GPs introduced an in-house pharmacist-led intervention scheme. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-in-house-pharmacists-gps-errors-percent.html Medications Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:00:02 EST news248957279 In an Essay that expands on a previous proposal to use the courts to prosecute those involved in ghostwriting on the basis of it being legal fraud, Xavier Bosch from the University of Barcelona, Spain and colleagues lay out three outline specific areas of legal liability in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-legal-remedies-ghostwriting.html Other Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:00:07 EST news246643866 (Medical Xpress) -- Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-results-medication-medical-journals-readers.html Health Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:12:06 EST news233557900 (Medical Xpress) -- Rather than ensure the proper attribution of authorship, rules set up by leading medical journals to define and credit authorship of published articles are exploited by the pharmaceutical industry in its attempt to conceal and misrepresent industry contributions to the literature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-authorship-medical-journals-flouted-pharma.html Other Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:20:01 EST news232162890 (AP) -- Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of advocates who say the government should be allowed to intervene in extreme cases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-parents-custody-super-obese-kids.html Sleep apnea Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:51:42 EST news229708292