http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. For the first time, a study has analysed the effects of the modification to the Spanish tobacco control law, implemented in 2011 in hospitality venues in Spain. The findings show that smoking on terraces and in the entrances to bars and restaurants increases the concentration of nicotine and particulate matter, which affects clients and hospitality professionals alike. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-bar-entrances-presence-nicotine.html Health Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:33:50 EST news290417405 Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania have developed a new gene therapy to thwart a potential influenza pandemic. Specifically, investigators in the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, directed by James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, demonstrated that a single dose of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) expressing a broadly neutralizing flu antibody into the nasal passages of mice and ferrets gives them complete protection and substantial reductions in flu replication when exposed to lethal strains of H5N1 and H1N1 flu virus. These strains were isolated from samples associated from historic human pandemics – one from the infamous 1918 flu pandemic and another from 2009. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-gene-therapy-mice-broad-pandemic.html Medical research Wed, 29 May 2013 14:40:49 EST news289057241 The United States government public health agency, the CDC, pledges "To base all public health decisions on the highest quality scientific data, openly and objectively derived." But Peter Doshi, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, argues that in the case of influenza vaccinations and their marketing, this is not so. His article is published on BMJ website today http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-expert-health-agency-advice-influenza.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:01 EST news287944369 The virus has already killed her mother, and Kelly Gu's father lies critically ill with H7N9 bird flu in a Shanghai hospital bed—the only couple both infected in China's outbreak of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-china-bird-flu-devastates-shanghai.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 May 2013 04:00:01 EST news287893657 Gains in life expectancy across Europe could be reversed if cash-strapped governments cut health budgets, the World Health Organisation warned in a report on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-downturn-threatens-europe-life-gains.html Health Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:10:01 EST news282373126 Physicians and parents must be aware of the growing danger of magnet ingestion by children because magnets can adhere to each other and cause life-threatening problems such as bowel perforations, a new case study illustrates in CMAJ. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-magnet-ingestion-young-children-problem.html Pediatrics Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:01 EST news282221348 Ottawa scientists have discovered a trigger that turns muscle stem cells into brown fat, a form of good fat that could play a critical role in the fight against obesity. The findings from Dr. Michael Rudnicki's lab, based at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, were published today in the prestigious journal Cell Metabolism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-fat-stem-cell-discovery-potential.html Medical research Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:01 EST news279282444 In an examination of the effectiveness of cefixime, the only oral cephalosporin antimicrobial recommended for treatment of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (gonorrhea) infections, researchers found a clinical treatment failure rate of nearly 7 percent for patients treated at a clinic in Toronto, according to a preliminary study published in the January 9 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-documents-failure-antibiotic-treatment-gonorrhea.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:00:08 EST news276874549 (AP)—A Caribbean trade bloc says it has merged five different health research agencies into a single office that has already attracted nearly $10 million in aid. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-caricom-health-agency-trinidad.html Health Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:13:26 EST news275224400 As the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections continue to rise around the world, a hospital in Canada detected the presence of New Delhi Metallo-ß-lactamase-1-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (NDM1-Kp), a multidrug resistant bacteria that is resistant to carbapenems, one of the last lines of antibiotics. The retrospective report, featured in the January issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, analyzes risk factors and infection control strategies taken to prevent the spread of NDM1-Kp. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-foreign-multidrug-resistant-bacteria-toronto.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:52:41 EST news274445536 Swiss and Canadian health authorities on Wednesday lifted a ban on sales of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis after determining they were safe and efficient. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-switzerland-canada-novartis-flu-vaccine.html Medications Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:20:05 EST news270934912 At least seven people have died and 91 have fallen ill in the United States in a worsening meningitis outbreak tied to a contaminated drug, updated figures showed Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dead-meningitis-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:35:32 EST news268889724 A new study confirms that doing short journeys on foot rather than taking the car or motorbike would avoid the death of 108 men and 79 women a year in Catalonia alone. This would imply annual savings of more than 200 million euros. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-benefit-car-home.html Health Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:43:11 EST news260008978 Higher mortality rates among older adult asthma patients compared to their younger counterparts may be due, at least in part, to an increase in airway inflammation, according to a study conducted by researchers in Canada, who note that their results imply that elderly patients are either less likely to follow asthma medication dosing instructions, or that the underlying airway inflammation in elderly patients is relatively resistant to current anti-inflammatory therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-inflammation-higher-mortality-older-asthma.html Immunology Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:04 EST news256823562 Suicide rates in Canada are increasing for girls but decreasing for boys, with suffocation now the most common method for both sexes, according to an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-suicide-canada-girls-aged-.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:00:03 EST news252584597 Canada's ranking in international child health indexes would dramatically improve if measurements were standardized, according to a new study by researchers from the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University, McGill University, the University of Calgary, and the Public Health Agency of Canada, working with the Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System and funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-international-infant-mortality-flawed.html Health Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:01 EST news248675856 Canadian girls report higher levels of emotional problems and lower levels of emotional well-being and life satisfaction, while boys tend to experience more behavioural problems and demonstrate less prosocial behavior, a new Queen's University-led national study of youth health behavior shows. The study also emphasizes the importance of home, school, peers and local neighbourhood in the lives of young people. The varying interpersonal relationships that arise in these four different contexts may be critical for adolescent mental health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-mental-health-primary-canada-youth.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:47:51 EST news248626054