http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—A study conducted in a Rio de Janeiro hillside slum says that using mobile health technology to monitor patients in poor urban areas could improve residents' access to health care while also reducing healthcare spending. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-brazil-slum-mobile-health-tech.html Health Wed, 08 May 2013 18:30:02 EST news287255964 British health authorities said on Wednesday they would not recommend Jakavi, a drug produced by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis to treat a rare form of blood cancer, deeming it too expensive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-britain-snubs-costly-novartis-blood.html Medications Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:50:01 EST news279952610 (HealthDay)—The standard vaccine schedule for young children in the United States is safe and effective, a new review says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-childhood-vaccine-safe.html Medications Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news277581239 (HealthDay)—In the wake of the Dec. 14 tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., the American College of Physicians (ACP) has pledged to play a part in ending recurring firearm-related deaths and injuries, according to an ACP statement published Dec. 20. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-acp-pledges-firearms-linked-death-injuries.html Health Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:10:02 EST news275317796 India's rural development minister said Friday the country's public health system had "collapsed" in a blunt assessment of his government's failure to extend a social safety net for the poor. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-india-health-collapsed-minister.html Health Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:00:34 EST news272257228 The legacy of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 goes beyond the resultant war on terror and continued fighting in Afghanistan to include lies about public health threats at the time, ongoing health problems today, and a public health system that may be less secure in the present and future, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ongoing-health-issues-opportunities.html Health Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:31:47 EST news266571100 (HealthDay) -- The United States needs to spend more on its chronically underfunded public health system and use that money more efficiently, according to an Institute of Medicine report released Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-health.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:47:11 EST news253288025 (AP) -- India will celebrate a full year since its last reported case of polio on Friday, a major victory in a global eradication effort that appeared to be stalled just a few years ago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-india-milestone-polio.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:22:32 EST news245560945 Public health should focus not only on reducing the burden of common diseases but also address the needs of people with blood disorders , experts say in a supplement to December's American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-blood-disorders-health-issue.html Health Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:19:19 EST news240643150 Social media tools like Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare may be an important key to improving the public health system's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, according to a New England Journal of Medicine "Perspective" article from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to be published this week. From earthquakes to oil spills or other industrial accidents to weather-related events like heat waves and flooding, the authors suggest that harnessing crowd-sourcing technologies and electronic communications tools will set the stage to handle emergencies in a quicker, more coordinated, effective way. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-social-media-poised-disaster-preparedness.html Health Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:10:01 EST news231001371