http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Insomnia affects around 23 percent of US workers, and brings a national cost for the sleeping disorder at $63.2 billion, a study showed Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-insomnia-affects-percent-workers.html Health Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:03:49 EST news234028995 (AP) -- New advice for pregnant women: If you're getting a C-section, special inflating boots strapped on your legs may lower the risk of a blood clot. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-c-section-blood-clot-urged.html Health Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:13:59 EST news233853225 Stroke has generally been considered a disease of the elderly, but the incidence of stroke in children and teens has increased in recent years. The American Heart Association Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics 2011 Data indicate that the unhealthy behaviors that are the risk factors for stroke begin with school-aged children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-teenage-trend.html Health Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:08:50 EST news233485715 Birth control pills may reduce a woman's bone density, according to a study published online July 13 in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism by Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) scientists. Impacts on bone were small, depended on the woman's age and the pill's hormone dose, and did not appear until about two years of use. The study size and design allowed the researchers to focus on 14- to 18-year-old teenagers, and to look at how bone density might change when a woman stops using the pill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gradual-bone-reduction-pill-users.html Health Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:10:03 EST news230288050 Ordinary painkillers such as paracetamol may work better than the risky antipyschotic drugs often prescribed to calm agitation in people with dementia, according to a study released Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-dementia-common-painkillers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:17:21 EST news230221027 An AIDS drug already shown to help prevent spread of the virus in gay men also works for heterosexual men and women, two studies in Africa found. Experts called it a breakthrough for the continent that has suffered most from AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pills-hiv-straight-men-women.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 13 Jul 2011 05:35:30 EST news229754113 As children become teenagers, it may be more challenging to regularly include them in family meals, but doing so is key to heading off such problems as eating disorders, obesity, and inadequate nutrition in adolescence, said Barbara Fiese, a University of Illinois professor of human development and family studies and director of the U of I's Family Resiliency Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-family-meals-important-teen-years.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:37:42 EST news229706271 Estrogen therapy improves low bone density due to anorexia nervosa in teenage girls with the disease when given as a patch or as a low oral dose that is physiological (close to the form or amount of estrogen the body makes naturally). These results of a new study are being presented Monday at The Endocrine Society's 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-anorexic-girls-bone-density-physiological.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:30:01 EST news226459073