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Men who are heavy drinkers and homeless for long periods of time have 400 times the number of head injuries as the general population, according to a new study by researchers who said they were shocked by their findings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-statistics-injuries-people-homeless.html Health Thu, 16 May 2013 13:12:18 EST news287928725 Women with a lean body shape have a greater risk of developing endometriosis than women who are morbidly obese, according to the largest prospective study to investigate the link. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-slim-women-greater-endometriosis-obese.html Health Tue, 14 May 2013 19:00:01 EST news287773777 (HealthDay)—An inflated hospital glove is a useful distraction for children with acute injury, with more children preferring the face drawn "Jedward" style, with the digits representing hair made to look like the distinctive hairdo of Irish pop duo Jedward, according to a short report published online April 29 in the Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-glove-balloon-distraction-children-er.html Health Mon, 13 May 2013 12:43:15 EST news287667710 (HealthDay)—Extracts of saw palmetto berry used at doses of up to 960 mg daily appear to be safe over an 18-month period, according to a study published in the April issue of The Journal of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-high-doses-palmetto-safe-months.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:00:01 EST news286482322 A treatment that removes heavy metals from the body has long been touted as an alternative therapy to combat hardening arteries. Now a 10-year, $31 million clinical trial has found that chelation therapy does help heart attack patients slightly reduce their risk of serious heart problems - but not enough for the researchers to encourage mainstream cardiologists to offer it to their patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fringe-therapy-heart-patients.html Cardiology Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:50:07 EST news283784571 Scholarly journals need to ensure that their peer reviewers act constructively, respect confidentiality and avoid conflicts of interests, according to new guidelines launched by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-committee-ethics-ethical-guidelines-peer.html Other Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:02:29 EST news283428141 The first randomised trial to compare treatments for ectopic pregnancies has found no significant differences in subsequent fertility between medical treatment and conservative surgery on one hand, and conservative or radical surgery on the other. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fertility-ectopic-pregnancy-reassuring-evidence.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:00:01 EST news282333072 Every one degree fall in outside air temperature during the winter corresponds to a drop in ambulance response time of more than 1 per cent, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-degree-fall-winter-air-temperature.html Health Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news281206647 Rocket attacks in Sderot, Israel significantly increase the likelihood of miscarriages, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-israel-rocket-miscarriage-likelihood.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:06:50 EST news280757200 (HealthDay)—Studies loaded with fraudulent data may have encouraged the use of a treatment for patients in intensive care units that now appears to do more harm than good, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fraudulent-risky-treatment-icus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:40:03 EST news280553155 (HealthDay)—Compared with placebo, saw palmetto, even at a dose as high as 960 mg, does not affect serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in men with lower urinary tract symptoms, according to research published in the February issue of The Journal of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-high-doses-palmetto-dont-impact.html Cancer Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:50:03 EST news279552849 Patients admitted to hospital as emergencies on public holidays are significantly more likely to die than those admitted on other days of the week - including weekends - indicates research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-emergency-admissions-death-toll-significantly.html Health Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:30:04 EST news278184062 Obese drivers are significantly more likely to die in a road traffic collision than people of normal weight, indicates US research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obese-die-car-weight-drivers.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278007660 Snakebite injuries account for around two phone queries every week to the UK National Poisons Information Service, indicates an audit published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-queries-week-uk-poisons-snakebites.html Health Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:30:02 EST news275158160 (Medical Xpress)—The debilitating symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, appear to be increased by a lack of inflammation-reducing T cells, report scientists from the Methodist Neurological Institute in an upcoming print issue of The EMBO Molecular Medicine Journal.The researchers found that expression of the gene FoxP3—which helps control the production of anti-inflammatory T cells—was an indicator of disease progression in 80 percent of the patients they studied. Low FoxP3 levels were likely in patients whose ALS would develop rapidly, and vice versa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gene-rapid-als-percent.html Genetics Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:14:23 EST news274349583 Asthma is more common among children born after infertility treatment than among children who have been planned and conceived naturally, according to findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study published online today (Thursday) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-children-born-infertility-treatment-asthma.html Inflammatory disorders Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:00:01 EST news273948377 New research shows that the concentration of sperm in men's semen has been in steady decline between 1989 and 2005 in France. In addition, there has been a decrease in the number of normally formed sperm. The study is published online today (Wednesday) in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-semen-quality-fell-french-men.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 19:00:01 EST news273863489 While general pediatricians and pediatric emergency physicians value their role in concussion management, a study of their self-reported knowledge, practices and attitudes points to the need for improved concussion-specific training and infrastructure to support optimal patient care. The study, released today in the journal Pediatrics, served as a catalyst for The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to create a new "medical home" model for managing pediatric and adolescent concussion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-survey-er-docs-pediatricians-highlights.html Pediatrics Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:20:01 EST news271871609 A mother's age at menopause may predict her daughter's fertility in terms of the numbers of eggs remaining in her ovaries, according to the new research published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-mothers-age-menopause-daughters-ovarian.html Medical research Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:00:01 EST news271417770 Women whose first pregnancy is ectopic are likely to have fewer children in the following 20-30 years than women whose first pregnancy ends in a delivery, miscarriage or abortion, according to results from a study of nearly 3,000 women in Denmark. In addition, these women have a five-fold increased risk of a subsequent ectopic pregnancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-women-pregnancy-ectopic-children.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:00:01 EST news269712142 In this month's editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors comment on the World Health Organization's (WHO) latest World Health Report, originally planned for publication in 2012, and the outcomes of the journal's collaboration with WHO on the intended theme of "no health without research." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-plos-medicine-editors-comment-world.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:00:03 EST news267808432 One of the largest studies to look at the effect of induced abortions on a subsequent first birth has found that women who have had three or more abortions have a higher risk of some adverse birth outcomes, such as delivering a baby prematurely and with a low birth weight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-prematurity-birth-weight-babies-born.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:00:10 EST news265479876 There is "substantial variation" in the stocks of essential antidotes used to treat various types of life threatening poisoning incidents in UK acute hospitals, finds research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-substantial-variation-stocks-essential-antidotes.html Other Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:30:02 EST news263660781 Alcohol may be involved in up to 640,000 hospital admissions and nearly 2 million visits to emergency care departments in England and Wales every year, suggests research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-alcohol-involved-hospital-admissions-england.html Health Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:30:01 EST news259418069 (Medical Xpress) -- Healthcare professionals may soon be able to truly see the benefits of their talks with patients, thanks to an automated computer visualisation measurement technique called Discursis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-big-health-benefits-small.html Other Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:10:01 EST news258180257 Intrauterine devices (IUDs) should be used routinely to provide emergency contraception, according to the authors of the first systematic review of all available data from the past 35 years. They found that IUDs had a failure rate of less than one per thousand and were a more effective form of emergency contraception than the "morning after pill". In addition, IUDs continued to protect women from unwanted pregnancy for many more years if they were left in place. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-intrauterine-devices-effective-emergency-contraception.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 08 May 2012 19:00:01 EST news255712156 The ambulance service response to emergency calls for elderly falls patients varies widely across the UK, reveals research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-wide-variation-emergency-response-elderly.html Health Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:06:50 EST news252039992 Men's diets, in particular the amount and type of different fats they eat, could be associated with their semen quality according to the results of a study published online in Europe's leading reproductive medicine journal Human Reproduction today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-fatty-diets-semen-quality.html Health Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:01 EST news250875714 A study by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Barts and The London NHS Trust proves that HGVs pose the greatest risk of death and serious injury to cyclists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-trauma-cyclists-city-streets.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:56:20 EST news250163742 The World Health Organization said a study has found that Filipino mothers who have been influenced by advertisements or their doctors to use infant formula are two to four times more likely to feed their babies with those products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-infant-formula-ads-breast-feeding.html Health Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:39:51 EST news239517577