http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Alternative therapies such as aerobic exercise, resistance or strength training, and isometric hand grip exercises may help reduce your blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-alternative-therapies-blood-pressure-aha.html Health Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:00:03 EST news285850085 (Medical Xpress)—About 57 percent of deaths among American teenagers and young adults are attributable to personal decisions and could be prevented, according to new risk research from Duke University. The researchers propose ideas for specific family decision making and communication to avoid fatalities from risky situations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-young-adult-deaths-parents-children.html Health Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:38:12 EST news284971086 The World Heart Federation has published a new position statement outlining the five key strategic targets required to meet its strategic goal for rheumatic heart disease (RHD) – a 25% reduction in premature deaths from rheumatic fever (RF) and RHD among individuals aged http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-roadmap-percent-reduction-premature-deaths.html Cardiology Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:29:56 EST news284657385 Clogged arteries and sedentary lifestyles have replaced germs as the world's leading killers. Where hunger once held much of the world in its grip, the 1.6 billion overweight and obese now outnumber the malnourished by nearly 2-to-1. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obesity-consequences-rapidly-world.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:50:02 EST news278689633 The cost of lung cancer to the UK economy is £2.4 billion each year, far higher than the cost of any other cancer. This highlights the urgent need to continue to reduce the number of young people who become addicted to tobacco – as smoking causes more than eight in 10 lung cancers in the UK. The research is presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Liverpool today (Wednesday). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-lung-cancer-uk-price-tag.html Cancer Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:23:11 EST news271495382 High cigarette prices, smoke-free air laws, marketing restrictions and other measures, all part of Brazil's strong tobacco control policies, are credited for a 50 percent reduction in smoking prevalence between 1989 and 2010. The reduction contributed to an estimated 420,000 lives saved during that time period. Those are the findings of a new study published today in PLOS Medicine by a team of researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Brazilian National Cancer Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-strong-tobacco-policies-brazil-credited.html Health Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:16 EST news271417538 According to the U.K.'s Department for Transport, demand for air travel in the country will more than double by 2030, from 127 million to 300 million passengers per year. A debate over how to accommodate this rising demand has revolved around two main proposals: adding a third runway to London's Heathrow Airport, or replacing Heathrow with a new airport in the Thames Estuary. Over the years, concerns over cost and environmental impacts have fueled both sides of the debate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-heathrow-airport-pollution-related-early-deaths.html Health Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:12:33 EST news269849544 Agreement by governments, by the end of 2012, on a set of ambitious global targets to curb the growing scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which includes cardiovascular disease (CVD; heart disease and stroke), is critical to avoiding the millions of premature deaths worldwide. This, according to a new paper published by the Global Cardiovascular Disease Taskforce a group of eminent experts who represent five leading heart-health organizations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-cardiovascular-disease-tougher-curb-global.html Cardiology Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:40:05 EST news267169199 In their August editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on a recent Policy Forum article by Jason Corburn and Alison Cohen, which describes the need for urban health equity indicators to guide public health policy in cities and urban areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-air-quality-indicators-world-cities.html Health Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:00:04 EST news265374693 (HealthDay) -- People with a parent or sibling who died young from heart disease have a much higher risk of developing early heart disease themselves, a new Danish study indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-relative-early-death-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 21 Aug 2012 05:20:02 EST news264741436 An international survey of tobacco use in three billion individuals, published in the current issue of The Lancet, demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries, according to the University at Buffalo professor who led the research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-world-largest-tobacco-major.html Addiction Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:30:03 EST news264345102 African-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study led by a research team at UCSF. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-pregnancy-linked-severe-asthma-teen.html Immunology Thu, 31 May 2012 14:42:52 EST news257694001 The World Health Organization announced on Friday it was set to approve a new target to reduce premature deaths from chronic illnesses such as heart disease by a quarter by 2025. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-early-chronic-illness-deaths.html Health Fri, 25 May 2012 10:25:23 EST news257160317 (HealthDay) -- Asthma continues to take its toll on Americans, with almost 19 million adults (8.2 percent) suffering from the disorder in 2010, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-asthma-cases-affecting-millions.html Immunology Wed, 16 May 2012 16:40:01 EST news256399644 The people of Denmark are not only concerned about what they eat, but they are willing to pay more tax to eat healthier and make more informed eating choices. The results of this study come at a time when healthy eating and increasing rates of obesity are becoming a major concern for people the world over. Despite this concern, however, government policy actions have rarely been evaluated. The findings are an outcome of the EU-funded EATWELL ('Interventions to promote healthy eating habits: evaluation and recommendations') project, which has received EUR 2.5 million under the 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology' (KBBE) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). EATWELL is looking into a variety of European policies aimed at reducing obesity and the lengths people would go to become healthy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-healthy-state-denmark.html Health Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:50:02 EST news254979573 Health must be taken into account in climate change mitigation strategies. It is not widely appreciated that there are many benefits to health that are likely to accrue from a low carbon economy, say experts in a special supplement published in the British Medical Journal today. They believe that health professionals "are uniquely placed to guide the climate change conversation towards better policies that are good for the planet and for people." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-health-central-climate-policies-experts.html Health Mon, 19 Mar 2012 13:26:57 EST news251382409 Regular exercise tends to steeply decline among youth as they move to university or college, according to a study by researchers at McMaster University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-young-adults-college-university.html Health Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:54:32 EST news243190314 Policies aimed specifically at men are urgently needed to improve the health of Europe's men, say experts in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-action-men-health-europe.html Health Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:46:39 EST news241843576 Health costs exceeding $14 billion dollars, 21,000 emergency room visits, nearly 1,700 deaths, and 9,000 hospitalizations are among the staggering impacts of six climate change-related events in the United States during the last decade, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in November 2011 edition of the journal Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-groundbreaking-quantifies-health-climate-change-disasters.html Health Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:23:04 EST news240077486 The deployment of speed cameras in urban areas saves vast amounts of money as well as lives, reveals a two year financial analysis, published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cameras-urban-areas-millions-cash.html Health Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:20:01 EST news231040847 The World Health Organization (WHO) has released its global status report on alcohol and health for 2011. Forum members largely agree with the discussion in the report of the serious health and societal problems associated with the misuse of alcohol, which contributes to accidents, many diseases, and premature deaths. On the other hand, Forum members were disturbed that the report was limited almost exclusively to abusive drinking, was based primarily on out-dated information, and suggested bias against alcohol. The report ignored a massive amount of scientific data indicating that in all developed countries, moderate consumers of alcohol are at much lower risk of essentially all of the diseases of ageing: coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, diabetes, dementia, and osteoporosis. And conspicuously absent from the WHO report is a description of the decrease in total mortality among middle-aged and elderly people associated with moderate alcohol consumption, a finding that has been found consistently throughout the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-health-effects-alcohol-consumption.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:42:52 EST news229682551 A University of Sussex psychologist is one of the key authors of a major new report that reveals that death rates of men aged 16-64 is twice that of women in the same age range in the European Union. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-men-lifestyles-early-death.html Health Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:45:33 EST news227547854 A commercially available particle trap can filter microscopic pollutants in diesel-engine exhaust and prevent about 98 percent of them from reaching the air, according to research reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-diesel-engine-exhaust-filter-particles-percent.html Health Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:10:09 EST news221758444