http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New research out of St. Michael's Hospital has found that multiple factors independently predict what makes youth more likely to make repeat suicide-related behaviour. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-multiple-factors-suicide-related-behavior-youth.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:45:26 EST news284219114 (Medical Xpress)—Local shops play an important role in older people's daily lives and, for many, are an integral part of their social network, new research shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-local-vital-age-friendly.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:15:31 EST news272531720 At a time when childhood obesity rates are on the rise, Deakin University research has found that parents prefer to play chauffeur than let their children walk or ride to school or around the local neighbourhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-children-neighbourhoods-seat-car.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 23 Oct 2012 08:00:01 EST news270197670 (Medical Xpress)—A guide has been developed to help local councils take the needs of older people into account when developing new or redeveloping existing neighbourhoods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-good-older-people.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:37:28 EST news268558640 Researchers at Newcastle University have revealed the mechanism by which neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and other parts of the body, age. The research, published today in Aging Cell, opens up new avenues of understanding for conditions where the aging of neurons are known to be responsible, such as dementia and Parkinson's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-brain-ages.html Neuroscience Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:00:01 EST news266598942 A unique approach to early literacy work with families where children develop their language skills and their ability to read and write from an early age has had a huge success. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-family-literacy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:27:11 EST news266146021 (Medical Xpress) -- People who live in safer, cleaner and friendly neighbourhoods experience higher levels of health and wellbeing as they age, a new Flinders University study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-neighbourhood-links-health-wellbeing.html Health Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:16:43 EST news264327329 Young children exposed to a harshly punitive school environment are more inclined to lie to conceal their misbehaviour than are children from non-punitive schools, a study of three- and four-year-old West African children suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-harsh-discipline-fosters-dishonesty-young.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:14:50 EST news238680869 (Edmonton) The obesity problem plaguing Canadians is a story heard frequently these days. For Katerina Maximova, making connections between the rising body mass index, or BMI, among native-born Canadian versus immigrant children has been the focus of a recent study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-bmi-differences-immigrant-equation.html Health Thu, 05 May 2011 14:00:06 EST news223821237