http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A large body of research has focused on the ability of oxytocin to facilitate social bonding in both marital and parenting relationships in human females. A new laboratory study, led by Dr. Ruth Feldman from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry, has found that oxytocin administration to fathers increases their parental engagement, with parallel effects observed in their infants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-oxytocin-engaged-fathers-responsive-infants.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:10:22 EST news274353005 (Medical Xpress)—The most widely used models for predicting heart failure rely on a complex combination of lifestyle, demographic, and cardiovascular risk factor information. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-simpler-heart-failure.html Cardiology Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:30:01 EST news271585183 Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have identified a brain receptor that appears to play a central role in regulating appetite. The findings, published today in the online edition of Cell, could lead to new drugs for preventing or treating obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-brain-appetite.html Medical research Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:02:00 EST news258289300 Tufts Medical Center researchers have shown that presence of a gene strongly linked to appetite regulation is highly predictive of a premature infant's readiness to feed orally. An analysis of just a drop of an infant's saliva could be the key to preventing many feeding problems and the expensive medical complications that can occur when infants are fed by mouth too early. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-marker-premies-saliva-readiness-mouth.html Pediatrics Mon, 21 May 2012 18:11:06 EST news256842630 For hundreds of thousands of people, injuring a muscle through an accident like falling off a bike or having surgery can result in a strange and serious complication. Their muscles start growing bones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-muscles-mistakenly-bones.html Medical research Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:13:30 EST news230390003