http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Doctors who have been on long term sick leave find it hard to return to work because they are overwhelmed with feelings of shame and failure, and fear the disapproval of colleagues, finds research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-sick-doctors-struggle-shame-failure.html Health Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:30:01 EST news269514952 Should every primary school pupil in the UK be given a hearing test and what's the most effective way of doing it? These are questions that a team of academics from Nottingham and Exeter will be tackling as part of a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-school-good.html Health Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:55:18 EST news268998792 September marks the start of spring but new research reveals it is also the month when Australians' vitamin D levels are at their lowest ebb. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-season-vitamin-d-deficiency-australian.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:42:47 EST news267781359 Do humans really wear their hearts on their sleeve? An ambitious Australian neuroscience project aiming to translate emotional impulses directly into music is hoping to find out. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-australian-science-heart-strings.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:52:05 EST news264916104 Certain medical students may be more likely to stay in their own countries or work in rural areas of their own countries when they qualify as doctors, suggests a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-medical-students-doctors-countries.html Other Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:30:05 EST news264165034 UK medical school teaching on physical activity is "sparse or non-existent," finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-uk-medical-school-physical-virtually.html Health Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:48:25 EST news262633625 (HealthDay) -- In low- and middle-income developing countries, socioeconomic status (SES) plays an important role in the development of obesity, particularly in women, according to research published online July 5 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obesity-linked-economic-status-countries.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:01 EST news261849911 A new way of mapping how physicians share patients provides opportunities for improving the quality of medical care and organizing the nature of care delivery, according to researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-physicians-valuable-network-science-tool.html Health Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:00:02 EST news261750509 Children who are solely breast-fed in the first six months of life are at increased risk of developing a nut allergy, new research showed Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-australian-links-breast-nut-allergies.html Pediatrics Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:17:19 EST news261285256 (HealthDay) -- Having high medical school debt increases the likelihood of anesthesiology residents moonlighting and joining practice groups with debt repayment programs, while decreasing their odds of pursuing academic medicine, according to a study published in the July issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-anesthesiology-trainees-debt-impacts-moonlighting.html Other Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:30:02 EST news260540605 Unprofessional behavior among hospitalists is rare, but those who do behave poorly share common features, according to research published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-main-unprofessional-behavior-hospitalists.html Other Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:57:17 EST news258713829 Australia is a world leader in sending medical personnel to less developed countries to assist with a variety of medical issues but the contribution of these missions has now been examined in a study, led by a University of Sydney academic, which calls for improved transparency, implementation and policymaking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-short-term-medical-missions.html Health Wed, 30 May 2012 09:00:06 EST news257585568 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Warwick Medical School have discovered a way of identifying which women are most at risk of postnatal depression (PND) by checking for specific genetic variants. The findings could lead to the development of a simple, accurate blood test which checks for the likelihood of developing the condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-blood-women-postnatal-depression.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 10 May 2012 06:40:54 EST news255850835 Overcoming a learning disability to become a physician will actually help in being compassionate toward patients, writes a medical student of his struggle with a severe reading disability in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-disability-physician-in-training-doctor.html Health Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:02 EST news255605444 Resident physicians' participation in a brief training program designed to increase empathy with their patients produced significant improvement in how patients perceived their interactions with the residents. This contrasts with several studies showing that empathy with patients usually drops during medical school and residency training. The report from a team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers will appear in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and has been released online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-resident-physicians-empathy-patients.html Other Mon, 07 May 2012 11:37:55 EST news255609459 Medical schools that use the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) as part of their admissions process reduce the relative disadvantage faced by certain socioeconomic groups, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-aptitude-fairer-medical-school-candidates.html Other Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:30:03 EST news253891265 Growing older and being overweight are not necessarily associated with a decrease in mental well-being, according to a cross-cultural study looking at quality of life and health status in the US and the UK. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-aging-overweight-people-happy.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:48:17 EST news250426087 It is estimated that half of all deaths in the United States are linked to behavioral and social factors such as smoking, diet and physical inactivity. Despite these causal links, of the $2 trillion spent annually on health care in the U.S., only 5 percent of that is devoted to addressing behavioral and social risk factors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-grant-behavioral-social-factors-linked.html Health Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:56:40 EST news249656152 Wide variations in doctors' pass rates, for a professional exam that is essential for one type of specialty training, seem to be linked to the particular medical school where the student graduated, indicates research published online in Postgraduate Medical Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-medical-school-link-wide-variations.html Other Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:30:07 EST news248371447 Q: Facebook? Twitter? Gmail? A: None of the above. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-distracted-doctoring-.html Other Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:01 EST news247912334 As a brand new year gets underway, people all over America are resolving to better manage their weight and have a more healthy 2012. According to a new study, those starting new weight loss programs may be surprised to find out that both location and level of experience may influence their success. A recent article published in The Journal of Black Psychology (a journal from the Association of Black Psychologists, published by SAGE) finds that African American women beginning a new group weight loss program are more successful if they are less experienced with weight management and if the program meets in a church. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-dieting-denomination.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:38:35 EST news247502310 (Medical Xpress) -- Errors in administration of medication are a serious problem in long-term residential care. New research completed by the University of Warwick and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) shows how a new electronic medication management system developed in the UK specifically for use in residential and nursing homes, has been shown to significantly reduce drug administration errors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-home-patients-drug-errors.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:20:22 EST news245575214 Taking aim at the alarming slowdown in the development of new and lifesaving drugs, Harvard Medical School is launching an Initiative in Systems Pharmacology, a comprehensive strategy to transform drug discovery by convening biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, physicists, computer scientists and clinicians to explore together how drugs work in complex systems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-harvard-medical-school-major-crisis.html Medical research Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:49:02 EST news238074532 Ginger supplements reduced markers of colon inflammation in a select group of patients, suggesting that this supplement may have potential as a colon cancer prevention agent, according to a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ginger-root-supplement-colon-inflammation.html Cancer Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:22:45 EST news237558153 The medical school has launched a new website that guides and supports biomedical researchers through the complex process of managing translational and human-subject research studies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-website-eases-clinical-trials-.html Other Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:44:25 EST news236259853 Most U.S. medical schools offer their students poor health insurance coverage for the treatment of mental health and substance abuse disorders, a practice that imperils the well-being of our nation's future doctors and their patients, a group of Boston-area researchers report in JAMA today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-med-schools-students-poor-mental.html Health Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:47:54 EST news234546462 The average medical student spends just five hours in medical school learning about the health-care needs of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community, despite evidence that these patients often face a unique set of health risks, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine that will be published Sept. 7 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-lgbt-health-issues-taught-medical.html Health Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:32:21 EST news234545082 (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 Rwandan children who lived through the horrors of the 1994 genocide may suffer from psychological trauma that makes them more vulnerable to health problems, such as HIV infection. But a medical school study shows that with mental health support, these youth can reduce symptoms of trauma, avoid risky behaviors and lead healthier lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-health-orphans-rwandan-genocide.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:18:29 EST news232015016 Los Angeles, CA (JULY 28, 2011) How goods are traded, not just what is traded, is a principal consideration when deciding the legitimacy of a particular industry, according to a study recently published in Administrative Science Quarterly, a SAGE journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-key-moral-legitimacy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:40:01 EST news231074816