http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—About half of youths with type 1 diabetes shift to a more intensive insulin regimen over time, which is associated with better glycemic control, according to research published in the January issue of Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-t1dm-insulin-intensification-patterns-outcomes.html Diabetes Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:10:01 EST news278763027 A study published in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that adolescents who experienced food insecurity in the past year have a higher prevalence of mental disorders than adolescents whose families have reliable access to food. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-food-insecurity-mental-health-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:01:44 EST news274964494 (HealthDay)—African-American children with forearm fractures are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency and lower bone mineral density than their peers without fractures, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-poorer-bone-health-black-children.html Pediatrics Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:00:01 EST news265303904 (HealthDay) -- Teens who play on three or more sports teams are much less likely to be overweight or obese than their peers who don't play a sport, new research finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-sports-kids-slimmer.html Pediatrics Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:10:01 EST news261678768 What does mental health have to do with dental health? Quite a bit, according to Richard Heyman, PhD, and Amy Smith Slep, PhD, psychologists who joined the New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) in July 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-explores-effects-family-dynamics-oral.html Dentistry Wed, 06 Jun 2012 13:07:43 EST news258206856 (Medical Xpress) -- Adolescents' expectations of an early death can predict their economic futures more than a decade later, according to a new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-adolescent-early-death-young-adult.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:56 EST news253302790 Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-impoverished-schools-parent-key-factors.html Health Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:25 EST news247322719 (AP) -- New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-free-infant-formula-ri-hospitals.html Health Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:02:20 EST news241754530 Psychosocial stress appears to enhance the lung-damaging effects of traffic-related pollution (TRP) in children, according to new research from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-exposure-parental-stress-pollution-related-lung.html Health Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:12:41 EST news228107538