http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Results from an anonymous survey of U.S. transplant providers report that incarceration, marijuana use, and psychiatric diagnoses, particularly suicide attempts, may lower patients' eligibility for liver transplantation. The study published in the April issue of Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, also found that most providers would not offer transplants to patients with advanced age, those severely obese, or with lifetime imprisonment. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-incarceration-marijuana-suicide-hinder-liver.html Other Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:35:11 EST news284294105 Employment is usually associated with health benefits over unemployment. However, an article published in Psychological Medicine by a group of researchers from Australia and the UK has shown that having a job with poor psychosocial quality can be as bad for mental health as being unemployed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-common-mental-disorders-unemployment-psychosocial.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:07:07 EST news272707604 (Medical Xpress) -- Adolescents' expectations of an early death can predict their economic futures more than a decade later, according to a new study from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-adolescent-early-death-young-adult.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:53:56 EST news253302790