http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—From 1995-1996 to 2007-2008, the rate of weight counseling provided by primary care physicians (PCPs) decreased significantly, even for those patients with obesity and weight-related comorbidities such as diabetes and hypertension, according to research published in the February issue of Medical Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-weight-declining-primary-doctors.html Health Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:00:01 EST news278599717 One of yesterday's most promising new tools for speeding the development of new medicines—"microdosing"—has found niches in that process today, and they include uses unanticipated a decade ago. That topic, an update on microdosing, is the cover story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News. C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-microdosing-role-medicines.html Medications Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:48:00 EST news278160467 New tools have confirmed high rates of misdiagnosis of patients with chronic disorders of consciousness, such as the vegetative state. An increasing number of patients' families wish to use these novel techniques for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. An international team of researchers, including Dr. Éric Racine, researcher at the IRCM, analyzed the clinical, social and ethical issues that clinicians are now facing. Their article is published in the August edition of The Lancet Neurology, a renowned journal in the field of clinical neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-disorders-consciousness-clinicians-therapeutic-interventions.html Neuroscience Thu, 02 Aug 2012 11:44:33 EST news263126663 Over 200 million people contract malaria each year, and according to the World Health Organization, an estimated 655,000 people died from malaria in 2010. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-weapon-malaria.html Medical research Tue, 08 May 2012 12:00:09 EST news255696341 Researchers at Duke University Medical Center used new tools they developed to analyze knees and hips and discovered that osteoarthritic knee joints are in a constant state of repair, while hip joints are not. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-arthritic-knees-hips-robust-response.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:01 EST news248092083 You've heard of the fat suit and the pregnancy suit; now meet AGNES - the old person suit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mit-wrinkle-video.html Health Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:22:28 EST news244804923 A simple online calculator could offer family GPs a powerful new tool in tackling two of the most deadly forms of cancer, say researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-simple-bowel-pancreatic-cancer-thousands.html Cancer Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:49:43 EST news243078563 The changing tide of Alzheimer's diagnosis presents new challenges to the public, physicians and lawmakers: if you could find out your Alzheimer's risk, would you want to know? How should doctors tell you your risk? And what does it mean for the many newly diagnosed Americans still in the workplace? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-safeguards-discrimination-early-alzheimer-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:41:35 EST news235327271 Combining the cutting-edge technology of whole genome sequencing of bacteria with social networking analysis, public health officials can get a more detailed picture of disease outbreaks that will better help track and stop them, say researchers today at the 111th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-genomics-social-network-analysis-team.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 22 May 2011 13:00:38 EST news225288008