http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new Mayo Clinic Proceedings study shows that people most often visit their health care providers because of skin issues, joint disorders and back pain. Findings may help researchers focus efforts to determine better ways to prevent and treat these conditions in large groups of people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-skin-problems-joint-disorders-people.html Health Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:39:05 EST news277573133 When medications fail to eradicate debilitating migraine headaches, surgery could provide relief for certain patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-chronic-migraine-headache-relief-outpatient.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:58:11 EST news276512282 Although approved for use for treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) in nearly 60 countries, use of citicoline in a randomized trial that included more than 1,200 participants with TBI did not result in improvement in functional and cognitive status, according to a study appearing in the November 21 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-citicoline-functional-cognitive-status-patients.html Neuroscience Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:03 EST news272647438 (HealthDay)—The leading pediatricians' group in the United States is again urging parents to get all children aged 6 months or over immunized in preparation for the coming flu season. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-pediatricians-group-urges-flu-shot.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:10:01 EST news266497148 (HealthDay)—Children with neurologic disorders such as cerebral palsy, intellectual disability or epilepsy are at increased risk of dying from flu, a new study says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-kids-neurological-conditions-higher-flu.html Pediatrics Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:10:01 EST news265540469 Michigan State University researchers, with the help of a groundbreaking medical device, are starting a clinical trial in Africa they hope will provide relief for the hundreds of thousands of children who survive cerebral malaria but are left stricken with epilepsy or other neurologic disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-drug-reverse-scourge-cerebral-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 01 May 2012 14:40:01 EST news255101500 Today's anti-depressant medications can ease depression in Parkinson's patients without worsening other symptoms of the disease, according to a study published online in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-meds-ease-depression-parkinson-patients.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:00:01 EST news253367422 Early-initiated immunotherapy appears to be associated with improved seizure outcomes among patients with autoimmune epilepsy, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-immunotherapy-seizure-outcomes-patients-autoimmune.html Immunology Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:00:20 EST news251986386 A new paradigm to explain glaucoma is rapidly emerging, and it is generating brain-based treatment advances that may ultimately vanquish the disease known as the "sneak thief of sight." A review now available in Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports that some top researchers no longer think of glaucoma solely as an eye disease. Instead, they view it as a neurologic disorder that causes nerve cells in the brain to degenerate and die, similar to what occurs in Parkinson disease and in Alzheimer's. The review, led by Jeffrey L Goldberg, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, describes treatment advances that are either being tested in patients or are scheduled to begin clinical trials soon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-characterizes-glaucoma-neurologic-disorder-eye.html Ophthalmology Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:23:12 EST news250334582 A new position statement issued by the American Academy of Neurology calls on neurologists to begin screening their patients for abusive or violent treatment by family, caretakers or others. The position statement is published in the January 25, 2012, online issue of Neurology.. Types of abuse include elder abuse, child abuse, sexual abuse, financial abuse, emotional abuse, bullying, cyberbullying and violence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-neurologists-patients-abuse.html Neuroscience Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:00:06 EST news246710838