http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-method-accurately-disease-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:00:02 EST news283169570 Work by researchers at The University of Western Australia could revolutionise testing for Type 1 diabetes around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-diabetes-cheaper-faster.html Diabetes Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:15:14 EST news282204905 When trying to determine the root cause of a person's dementia, using an MRI can effectively and non-invasively screen patients for Alzheimer's disease or Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration (FTLD), according to a new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Using an MRI-based algorithm effectively differentiated cases 75 percent of the time, according to the study, published in the December 26th, 2012, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The non-invasive approach reported in this study can track disease progression over time more easily and cost-effectively than other tests, particularly in clinical trials testing new therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-mri-screen-patients-alzheimer-disease.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:00:06 EST news275576983 A simple formula can predict at birth a baby's likelihood of becoming obese in childhood, according to a study published today in the open access journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-childhood-obesity-birth.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:00:15 EST news273344079 A team of researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), headed by CNIO Director María Blasco, has demonstrated in a pioneering study on mammals that longevity is defined at a molecular level by the length of telomeres. The work—which is published today in the online edition of the journal Cell Reports—opens the door to further study of these cellular components in order to calculate the rate at which cells age and thus be able to determine life expectancy for a particular organism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-real-indicator-longevity-mammals.html Medical research Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:00:14 EST news267965399