http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday that infectious diseases will spread more easily in the future due to globalisation, changing lifestyles and rising population densities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-diseases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:54:23 EST news275208855 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Alfred Roca, an assistant professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois, thinks that the genomes of an isolated West African human population provide important clues about how the disease has evolved. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-tracking-hiv.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:29:19 EST news275063269 Higher rates of schizophrenia in urban areas can be attributed to increased deprivation, increased population density and an increase in inequality within a neighbourhood, new research reveals. The research, led by the University of Cambridge in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, was published today in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-schizophrenia-linked-social-inequality.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:05:52 EST news274701893 Researchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire have found an association between increasing the distribution of neurosurgeons throughout the United States and decreasing the risk of death from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). The findings of their study are described in the article "Increased population density of neurosurgeons associated with decreased risk of death from MVAs in the United States. Clinical article," by Atman Desai, M.D., and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-greater-availability-neurosurgeons-death-motor.html Neuroscience Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:42:17 EST news262345224 (HealthDay) -- The prevalence of childhood food allergy is associated with urban/rural status, even after adjusting for confounding variables, according to a study published online May 17 in Clinical Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-child-food-allergy-prevalence-linked.html Pediatrics Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:00:01 EST news258984038 Children living in urban centers have a much higher prevalence of food allergies than those living in rural areas, according to a new study, which is the first to map children's food allergies by geographical location in the United States. In particular, kids in big cities are more than twice as likely to have peanut and shellfish allergies compared to rural communities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-city-kids-food-allergies-rural.html Pediatrics Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:07:27 EST news258286033 There is an imbalance between the rapid growth of cardiac catheterization laboratories, which provide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures, relative to the growth in the overall U.S. population, as well as patients who experience an acute heart attack, or ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to a study presented March 25 at the 61st annual American College of Cardiology (ACC) scientific session. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-significant-mismatch-pci-capable-hospitals.html Cardiology Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:21:15 EST news251904052 Water-associated infectious disease outbreaks are more likely to occur in areas where a region's population density is growing, according to a new global analysis of economic and environmental conditions that influence the risk for these outbreaks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-high-population-density-greatest-factor.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:00:06 EST news248449192 Breastfeeding increased infant survival rates in 19th -Century Montreal in two major ways, according to research from Concordia University and McGill University. Mother's milk protected vulnerable infants from food and water contaminated by fecal bacteria, while breastfeeding postponed the arrival of more siblings and that improved the health of mothers as well as their subsequent children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-breastfeeding-babies-19th-century-montreal.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:57:24 EST news243604636 A simple physician notification system can help prevent further fractures in osteoporotic patients who have had already had fractures, according to a study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-physician-notifications-postfracture-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:00:03 EST news243516985 (Medical Xpress) -- Normally used to spot where people live, satellite images of nighttime lights can help keep tabs on the diseases festering among them, too, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-nighttime-images-track-disease-sky.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:01:36 EST news242578879 Uncovering the origin of illness is like finding a needle in a haystack, but that search is getting easier with the help of powerful tools like genetic analysis and satellite data. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-satellite-decode-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:22:44 EST news239527348 In dengue-endemic areas such as South-East Asia, in contrast to conventional thinking, rural areas rather than cities may bear the highest burden of dengue fever—a viral infection that causes sudden high fever, severe headache, and muscle and joint pains, and can lead to a life-threatening condition, dengue hemorrhagic fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-rural-areas-higher-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:47:56 EST news233945225 Giving wealthier counties greater access to influenza vaccine than poorer counties could worsen a flu epidemic because poor areas have fairly high population densities with higher levels of interaction among households and communities, enabling the infection to spread faster, according to a University of Pittsburgh study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-inequitable-access-flu-vaccinations-worsen.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:08:14 EST news226915659