http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The UK's healthcare system faces unprecedented challenges. Britain is the most obese nation in Europe and the country's ageing population is especially at risk from isolation, depression, strokes and fractures caused by falls in the home. A pioneering new collaboration hopes to address these issues by developing a 24/7 digital home health assistant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-high-tech-future-healthcare-digital-health.html Health Thu, 09 May 2013 04:26:11 EST news287292363 As parents, physicians and policymakers look for ways to curb childhood obesity, they may need to look no further than a child's own backyard. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-childhood-obesity-home.html Overweight and Obesity Sat, 04 May 2013 05:20:01 EST news286860678 Mutations found in individuals with autism block the action of molecules made by the brain that act on the same receptors that marijuana's active chemical acts on, according to new research reported online April 11 in the Cell Press journal Neuron. The findings implicate specific molecules, called endocannabinoids, in the development of some autism cases and point to potential treatment strategies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-mutations-individuals-autism-endocannabinoid-brain.html Autism spectrum disorders Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:00:19 EST news284898623 Researchers at Mayo Clinic Cancer Center have identified a novel gene that can contribute to a woman's susceptibility for developing ovarian cancer. Researchers identified the gene, called HNF1B, through large-scale analysis of more than 16,000 women with ovarian cancer and more than 26,000 healthy women. Results of the study are published in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-gene-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:11:50 EST news283605093 A team of clinicians from Sydney, Australia and Plymouth, UK, have taken the paper-based Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination (ACE-III), one of the most popular and commonly-used screening tools for dementia and translated it into app form for more accurate assessment and wider use within the clinical team. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-app-dementia.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:00:14 EST news282304807 An international research collaboration led by scientists at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the University of Dundee, in the U.K., have developed a way to efficiently and effectively make designer drugs that hit multiple protein targets at once. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-paves-drugs-aimed-multiple-protein.html Medical research Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:00:16 EST news274533992 The ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) and the Gladstone Institutes today announced the formation of a research collaboration to speed the discovery of potential treatments for ALS through the preclinical drug development process. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-als-tdi-gladstone-collaborate-potential.html Medical research Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:33:11 EST news273839583 Scientists at the University of Warwick and consumer goods manufacturer Unilever are joining forces to identify whether the nutrients in everyday fruit and vegetables could help to improve people's cardiovascular health and protect them from Type-2 diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-fruit-vascular-health.html Health Fri, 23 Nov 2012 07:16:07 EST news272877345 EU funding has supported a major initiative designed to promote research collaboration to support control programmes for Chagas disease in central and southern America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-chagas-diseaseaim-transmission.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:53:52 EST news268556024 A team of Cardiff University scientists is leading new research to develop a vaccine against anthrax to help counteract the threat of bioterrorism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-anthrax-vaccine-counteract-world.html Medical research Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:35:27 EST news267096919 Malnutrition is common among HIV-infected pregnant women even when they receive antiretroviral therapy, leading to low birth weight and other health problems in their infants, according to a recent study conducted by a Cornell University faculty member working with the Makerere University-UCSF Research Collaboration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-hiv-infected-women-susceptible-malnutrition-pregnancy.html HIV & AIDS Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:35:01 EST news266481287 In South Africa, HIV-infected men who are receiving treatment with anti-HIV drugs (antiretroviral therapy) are almost a third more likely to die than HIV-positive women who are receiving similar treatment: however, these differences are likely to be due to gender differences in death rates in the general population rather than related to HIV, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-mortality-hiv-positive-south-african-men.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:00:02 EST news265972579 A recently discovered compound from the aminopyridine class not only has the potential to become part of a single-dose cure for all strains of malaria, but might also be able to block transmission of the parasite from person to person, according to a research collaboration involving the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), based in Switzerland, and the Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3-D) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. On the basis of initial results it was selected by MMV for further development – making it the first compound researched on African soil to enter preclinical development in partnership with MMV. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-african-strong-candidate-single-dose-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:27:11 EST news265371990 (Medical Xpress) -- A research collaboration involving Rockefeller University and more than two dozen other institutions has found a link between a gene mutation and chronic kidney failure. The study, published in Nature Genetics in July, found patients who had a specific kind of kidney disease — called karyomegalic interstitial nephritis — were likely to also have a mutation on a particular gene, FAN1, which codes for a protein that helps fix DNA damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-collaboration-kidney-disease-tied-dna.html Genetics Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:51:35 EST news263713872