http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The lack of hard data on the safety and effectiveness of a wide range of drugs in pregnancy has hindered the treatment of pregnant women, contributing to a doubling of deaths amongst mums-to-be with an underlying health problem over the past 20 years, argues an editorial in the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-deaths-sick-mums-to-be-poor-evidence.html Health Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:38:56 EST news290281126 A virtual patient named Denise may help future physicians feel more comfortable and capable assessing suicide risk. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-virtual-patient-future-doctors-suicide.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:36:22 EST news276518174 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers have found that smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards - despite a widely held belief that smoking relieves stress and giving up makes you feel more on edge. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-year-anxious.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:07:56 EST news276415670 Despite the popular belief among parents that having children shortens their lives, the reverse seems to be true, particularly for women, indicates a large study of childless couples, treated for infertility, and published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-death-high-childless-couples.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:30:03 EST news273948174 (Medical Xpress) -- According to researchers from the University of Hertfordshire, individuals with the mental health problem Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) cannot accurately detect negative facial emotions but they have an amazing ability to recognise famous faces - when they are upside-down. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-recognising-flipped-famous-links-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:48:59 EST news253532914 Researchers at the University of Essex have shown that a genetic variant could make some people more sensitive to their emotional environment - and more susceptible to anxiety disorders - than others. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust, could have implications for predicting how well individual patients will respond to treatments for anxiety disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-scientists-link-gene-sensitivity-emotional.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:30:01 EST news245644435 Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-maltreated-children-pattern-brain-combat.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:34:26 EST news242310845 Scaling up mental health services in developing countries is an essential part of any plan to improve mental health worldwide. However recent data suggests while 1 in 3 people with a mental health problem in wealthy nations receive treatment (in itself a huge shortfall in care), in developing countries it can be as few as 1 in 50. The fourth paper in The Lancet Series on Global Mental Health looks at progress made since the Lancet's landmark 2007 Series on the same subject. The paper is written by Dr Julian Eaton, who works with CBM International and is based in Abuja, Nigeria, and colleagues from many other countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scale-mental-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:30:04 EST news237982242 More than eight out of 10 homeless people surveyed by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and elsewhere have at least one chronic health condition and more than half have a mental health problem. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-percent-homeless-people-chronic-health.html Health Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:34 EST news233403487 Children with a parent who was deployed in the U.S. military efforts Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) for longer periods were more likely than children whose parents did not deploy to receive a diagnosis of a mental health problem, according to a report published Online First today by Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-length-parental-military-deployment-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:00:14 EST news229009121