http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The intrauterine environment plays an important role in the health of the offspring. Now, experts from the University of Navarra affirm that the mother's stress, due to socio-economic or psycho-social causes, is associated with the development of pathologies related with obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-relationship-prenatal-stress-obesity-rats.html Health Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:01:35 EST news284727686 A new analysis has found that a combination of methods that help patients with dementia remember proper eating habits can improve their physical health and lessen symptoms of depression. Published early online in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, the study indicates that clinicians should consider using this intervention in individuals with dementia who also have poor nutrition and signs of depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-dementia-patients-physical-mental-health.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 28 Feb 2013 00:00:01 EST news281208531 At a time when 25% of the adult population is considered to be obese and the annual cost of the national obesity epidemic is estimated at £5 billon, a Plymouth-based research project that introduced young men and older people to sustainable and healthy food activities points to innovative partnership solutions. The research showed how participants underwent a range of social and behavioural improvements around food and diet. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-food-cultures-cooking-reveals-appetite.html Health Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:00:02 EST news278840086 For the purpose of improving patient safety, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new management model based on customer needs. All the actors taking part in the organizational activity in social and health care organizations play a key role in safety management - including the patient. Both in Finland and abroad, there is a clear need for the systematic improvement of patient safety. Patient safety cannot be improved by simply making new rules. On the contrary, sometimes new rules could make the work of healthcare professionals more complicated and even reduce safety. A new kind of adaptive safety management is required. This new, customer-needs-based management model is already being used at Vaasa Central Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-involved-decision-making.html Other Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:05:41 EST news273398704 It's a sad but familiar scene near the grounds of many medical campuses: hospital-gowned patients, some toting rolling IV poles, huddled in clumps under bus shelters or warming areas, smoking cigarettes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-habits-die-hard-cancer-patients.html Cancer Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:50:15 EST news273156596 Starting HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy reduces food insecurity and improves physical health, thereby contributing to the disruption of a lethal syndemic, UCSF and Massachusetts General Hospital researchers have found in a study focused on sub-Saharan Africa. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-antiretroviral-therapy-hiv-infected-africans-nutrition.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:15:59 EST news268406147 New guidelines from the American Cancer Society say for many cancers, maintaining a healthy weight, getting adequate physical activity, and eating a healthy diet can reduce the chance of recurrence and increase the likelihood of disease-free survival after a diagnosis. The recommendations are included in newly released Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines for Cancer Survivors, published early online in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-guidelines-diet-weight-odds-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:06:26 EST news254657158 Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona, Spain)) have discovered that deficiency of a single protein, Mitofusin 2, in muscle and hepatic cells of mice is sufficient to cause tissues to become insensitive to insulin, thus producing an increase in blood glucose concentrations. These are the two most common conditions prior to development of diabetes type 2. Published in this week's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the study validates Mitofusin 2 as a possible target for the treatment of diabetes type 2. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-validate-potential-protein-treatment-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:25:11 EST news251717103 Researchers have shown one way in which poor nutrition in the womb can put a person at greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other age-related diseases in later life. This finding could lead to new ways of identifying people who are at a higher risk of developing these diseases and might open up targets for treatment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-poor-maternal-diet-diabetes-.html Medical research Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:21:58 EST news245049707 Battling colds and doing (or pledging to do) more exercise are familiar activities for most of us in January. But different levels of exercise can actually significantly increase or decrease your chances of catching a respiratory infection, says Professor Mike Gleeson from Loughborough University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-couch-potato-elite-athlete-happy.html Health Thu, 05 Jan 2012 09:49:46 EST news244979380 Scientists studying how the sense of smell changes as people age, found that olfactory sensory neurons in those 60 and over showed an unexpected response to odor that made it more difficult to distinguish specific smells, putting them at greater risk from dangerous chemicals and poor nutrition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-elderly-ability-distinguish-odors.html Neuroscience Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:45:00 EST news240151415 A new study published by the American Physiological Society offers the strongest evidence yet that vulnerability to type 2 diabetes can begin in the womb, giving new insight into the mechanisms that underlie a potentially devastating disease at the center of a worldwide epidemic. The study, conducted in baboon primates, finds that when mothers are even moderately undernourished while pregnant and breastfeeding, their offspring are consistently found to be prediabetic before adolescence. It is the first time that diabetes has been shown to have prenatal origins in a primate model. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-undernourishment-pregnant-lactating-females-key.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:20:40 EST news227190025