http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients they're handing over—or at least they strive to. In reality, they might not spend enough time talking about the toughest cases, according to a study led by the University of Michigan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-shift-simple-hospital-handoff-conversations.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:00:06 EST news271953874 The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, like Japanese, in which the basic sentence form is subject-object-verb ("the girl the ball kicks"). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-theory-linguistics-functional-cross-language-variations.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:03:23 EST news269074925 Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once described England and America as two countries separated by a common language. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-underscores-moms-critically-ill-infants.html Health Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:20:01 EST news264330104 A new study of hospital emergency rooms has shown how communication breakdowns between patients and medical staff can lead to problems in treatment delivery and potentially reduced patient safety. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-poor-prognosis-medicos-dont.html Other Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:11:52 EST news232186300