http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Reports of serious violence dropped by 14% in 2012 compared to the previous year, according to the findings of a national study undertaken by Cardiff University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-uk-violence-dips.html Health Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:53:03 EST news286095176 Doctors may in the future be able to take a blood test to determine if a patient is suicidal, hopefully decreasing the number of people taking their own lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-suicide-critical.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:10:04 EST news280570179 New research out of the United Kingdom is showing that a common drug used in the fight against breast cancer could also be employed in the fight against other tumours. The drug in question is geldanamycin, and has made a name for itself for its ability to attack a protein associated with the spread of breast cancer. More recently, however, a laboratory-based study has discovered that it can also degrade a different protein that triggers blood vessel growth. These results were published in the journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-breast-cancer-drug-key-tumours.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 06:24:59 EST news273911092 (AP)—Pressure mounted Thursday for the Irish government to draft a law spelling out when life-saving abortions can be performed—a demand that came after a pregnant woman who was denied an abortion died. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-doctors-demand-clearer-irish-abortion.html Health Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:49:48 EST news272213380 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed and validated a new tool, the first of its kind, to measure how well emergency department physicians administer a brief intervention aimed at curtailing harmful drinking by patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tool-emergency-department-interventions-patient.html Addiction Mon, 01 Oct 2012 08:40:01 EST news268298850 According to the latest survey of UK hourly pay by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) female doctors' pay lags behind their male colleagues by 28.6%. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-average-gap-men-women-doctors.html Other Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:30:01 EST news267205588 More than 70 per cent of doctors faced verbal or written aggression and almost a third confronted physical aggression in the workplace over a 12-month period, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-doctors-subjects-patients-physical-aggression.html Health Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:27:47 EST news267089227 A few days ago, Hazem left his wife and 11-month-old son in England and flew to Turkey with another Syrian-born doctor from Manchester to offer help on the front line in Aleppo. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-diaspora-doctors-heed-homeland-aleppo.html Other Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:55:10 EST news264408900 A tropical plant said to be nutritional dynamite is being plugged by Sierra Leone's government as a natural cure-all in the country, which has some of the worst health indicators in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-miracle-boosting-health-sierra-leone.html Health Sat, 17 Sep 2011 04:50:01 EST news235450012 Medical practitioners need to implement new strategies for decreasing adverse drugs reactions among seniors, conclude the authors of a scientific literature review led by Michael Steinman, MD, a physician and geriatrics researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-seniors-adverse-drug-reactions-strategies.html Medications Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:02:07 EST news233838112