http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Lung transplant patients who took part in a three-month structured exercise program when they were discharged from hospital improved their health-related quality of life and reduced their risk of cardiovascular problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-lung-transplant-patients-cardiovascular.html Health Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:11:16 EST news259506640 People with serious mental illness (SMI), such as bipolar and major depressive disorders, have increased mortality and physical illness and use greater health care resources than people without mood disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-people-mood-disorders-re-hospitalized.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:43:56 EST news259317827 Mayo Clinic researchers have identified an immune system deficiency whose presence shows someone is up to four times likelier to die than a person without it. The glitch involves an antibody molecule called a free light chain; people whose immune systems produce too much of the molecule are far more likely to die of a life-threatening illness such as cancer, diabetes and cardiac and respiratory disease than those whose bodies make normal levels. The study is published in the June issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ids-immune-glitch-tied-fourfold.html Immunology Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:20:03 EST news257925809 Residents of Lower Manhattan who suffered home damage following the September 11 terrorist attacks are more likely to report respiratory symptoms and diseases than area residents whose homes were not damaged, concludes a study conducted by researchers in Atlanta and New York City. The researchers based their study on data collected in the World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR), a cohort study of more than 71,000 rescue/recovery workers and survivors of the World Trade Center attacks. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-home-sept-linked-higher-respiratory.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 22 May 2012 11:30:01 EST news256904561 Heart attack survivors who live about 100 meters (328 feet) or less from a major U.S. roadway face increased risk of death from all causes, according to new research in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-death-higher-heart-survivors-major.html Cardiology Mon, 07 May 2012 16:00:10 EST news255606108 Rotavirus vaccines offer the best hope for preventing severe rotavirus disease and the deadly dehydrating diarrhea that it causes, particularly in low-resource settings where treatment for rotavirus infection is limited or unavailable, according to studies published in the April 2012 special supplement to the journal Vaccine. The special supplement, "Rotavirus Vaccines for Children in Developing Countries," summarizes data on the performance of rotavirus vaccines to help maximize their impact in developing countries and adds to the growing body of evidence demonstrating that rotavirus vaccines are a safe, proven, cost-effective intervention that save children's lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-access-lifesaving-rotavirus-vaccines-million.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:26:41 EST news254456788 Industrial workers who have been chronically exposed to silica dust are at substantially higher risk of death from all causes than workers who have not been exposed. Furthermore, the risk of death, especially from lung and cardiovascular diseases increases with increasing exposure, according to a study from Chinese researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-long-term-exposure-silica-death-industrial.html Health Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:13 EST news253891148 A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that cigarette smoke exposure, in a cause-effect manner, results in graft rejection that would have been prevented by certain drug treatments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-secondhand-results-graft.html Surgery Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:05:23 EST news249221116 Health workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nepal-mass-poultry-cull-bird.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:27 EST news247643232 A Hong Kong school was closed on Friday after a dead bird found in the southern Chinese city was tested positive for the deadly H5 strain of the bird flu virus, health officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-hong-kong-school-bird-flu.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:34:08 EST news243228805 The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is significantly increased in mothers postpartum, suggesting a potential new population to target for screening, according to a new UK-wide cohort study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-diagnosis-tuberculosis-postpartum-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:52:56 EST news242621478 During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children became critically ill, developing severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, sometimes fatal. The largest nationwide investigation to date of influenza in critically ill children, led by Children's Hospital Boston, found one key risk factor: Simultaneous infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) increased the risk for flu-related mortality 8-fold among previously healthy children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-healthy-children-fall-critically-ill.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 07 Nov 2011 04:17:05 EST news239861817 A rare virus has killed three people and sickened nearly 100 in Japan, the Philippines, the United States and the Netherlands over the past two years, US health authorities said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-rare-flu-like-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:10:01 EST news236616979 (AP) -- During a recent weekday lunch, middle-aged Wu Zhixin had a plate of shredded pork noodles glistening with oil and washed it down with a paper cup of vodka-like alcohol. Then she lit a cigarette. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-china-unhealthy-habits-chronic-diseases.html Health Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:08:49 EST news235282114 As the world prepares to develop a global strategy to tackle some of the biggest current threats to human health, there is a lot to be learned from past successes and mistakes of the global response to HIV/AIDS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-summit-non-communicable-diseases-global-aids.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:04:55 EST news234550003 A study presented at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting focuses on the effect that breathing irregularities have on the accuracy of 4D positron emission tomography (PET) scans and outlines a PET imaging method that reduces "motion artifacts" or image blurring arising from respiratory motion. Non-gated PET imaging with 4D computed tomography may be useful for imaging patients who do not benefit from the use of respiratory gating, most notably patients with erratic breathing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-irregular-affect-accuracy-d-petct.html Cancer Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:50:01 EST news226584692 Canadian investigators have shown that a species of ebolavirus from Zaire that is highly virulent in humans can replicate in pigs, cause disease, and be transmitted to animals previously unexposed to the virus. The findings are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases and are now available online. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-pigs-susceptible-virulent-ebolavirus-transmit.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 13 May 2011 03:50:02 EST news224477377