http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. One of the most controversial topics in neurology today is the prevalence of serious permanent brain damage after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Long-term studies and a search for genetic risk factors are required in order to predict an individual's risk for serious permanent brain damage, according to a review article published by Sam Gandy, MD, PhD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in a special issue of Nature Reviews Neurology dedicated to TBI. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-experts-prevalence-neurological-dysfunction-injury.html Neuroscience Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:13:34 EST news284400696 (Medical Xpress)—Those who live and die behind prison walls don't usually get much public attention. Incarceration is, after all, meant to remove criminals from society. But contagious and potentially deadly diseases can't be locked and left in a penitentiary, especially when infected inmates are eventually released. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-curbing-tb-disease-rampant.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:35:53 EST news273317745 A report into Bullying of People with Intellectual Disabilities and an Easy to Read Bullying Information Guide, compiled by the National Institute for Intellectual Disability (NIID), Trinity College Dublin in association with the National Anti-Bullying Advocacy Group (NAAG), was launched o recent by the Director of the National Disability Authority, Siobhan Barron.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bullying-people-intellectual-disabilities.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Nov 2012 06:14:45 EST news271577644 The proportion of Americans who are severely obese—those people 100 pounds or more overweight—continues to increase rapidly and much faster than those with moderate obesity, but the rate of growth has slowed, according to a new RAND Corporation study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-severely-obese-fastest-group-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 01 Oct 2012 16:06:22 EST news268326374 Genetics researchers have identified at least two new gene variants that increase the risk of common childhood obesity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-largest-ever-genome-wide-genes-common-childhood.html Genetics Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:00:23 EST news253087071 A team of researchers has identified the genetic mutation that causes Proteus syndrome, a rare disorder in which tissue and bone grows massively out of proportion. The discovery, which has implications for potential drug therapies and even cancer, appears in the July 27, 2011, early online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. The team was led by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gene-variant-proteus-syndrome.html Genetics Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:00:01 EST news231001435