http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Canada needs to reform its patchwork system of prison health care that does not adequately care for prisoners' complex health care needs, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-prison-health-canada-cmaj-editorial.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:00:02 EST news281614706 (AP)—Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of 16 Spanish cities Sunday to protest plans to part-privatize the public health care system, with some questioning the government's motives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-big-protests-spain-health-reforms.html Health Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:10:01 EST news280328479 A combined strategy is needed to combat tuberculosis in Nunavut where the rate is 66 times higher than in the general Canadian population, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-tuberculosis-nunavut.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:00:02 EST news279194772 (AP)—Thousands of people marched in Madrid on Sunday to protest plans to privatize parts of their public health care system, with some questioning the motives behind the government's actions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-spaniards-protest-health-reforms.html Health Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:38:01 EST news277310275 (Medical Xpress)—The oldest old are doing better and those approaching late life are doing worse, but Americans between the ages of 65 and 84 are experiencing about the same level of disabilities as they did at the start of the 21st century. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-disability-trends-oldest-boomers-worse.html Health Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:21:43 EST news271074096 (AP)—Uruguay's Senate legalized first-trimester abortions for all women Wednesday in a groundbreaking measure that came with so many strings attached it left neither side in the bitter debate completely satisfied. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-uruguay-historic-abortion.html Health Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:09:12 EST news269716138 The aging of the U.S. population will have broad economic consequences for the country, particularly for federal programs that support the elderly, and its long-term effects on all generations will be mediated by how—and how quickly—the nation responds, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council. The unprecedented demographic shift in which people over age 65 make up an increasingly large percentage of the population is not a temporary phenomenon associated with the aging of the baby boom generation, but a pervasive trend that is here to stay. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-population-aging-long-term-implications-economy.html Health Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:11:49 EST news267804692 As the United States grapples with health care reform, much attention has focused on the importance of preventative health care. Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has developed a system that could help public health care organizations determine the best method of allocating resources by prioritizing health risk factors and conditions – in some cases before these conditions become major health problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-health-priorities-allocate-resources.html Health Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:20:01 EST news255013632