http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The bacterium M. pneumoniae is carried at high rates in the upper respiratory tracts of healthy children and usual diagnostic tests cannot differentiate between such asymptomatic carriage and actual respiratory tract infection, according to a study by Dutch researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-asymptomatic-carriage-pneumoniae-common-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 14 May 2013 17:25:38 EST news287771110 (HealthDay)—Black children are less likely to be prescribed antibiotics and to be diagnosed with conditions that require antibiotics, even when treated by the same doctor, according to research published online March 18 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-black-children-antibiotics.html Pediatrics Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:30:02 EST news282833692 (HealthDay)—The first medication to treat diarrhea in people with HIV/AIDS who take antiretroviral drugs has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fulyzaq-art-related-diarrhea-hivaids.html Medications Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:32:00 EST news276431502 (HealthDay)—Gattex (teduglutide) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat nutritional problems caused by short bowel syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-gattex-short-bowel-syndrome.html Medications Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:30:01 EST news275416457 Infants with severe lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) may have a dysfunctional innate immune response that relates to the severity of their disease. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children's Hospital study appearing in a recent issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-infants-severe-rsv-disease-immunosuppressed.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:12:22 EST news274367529 Changes in the ability to smell and taste can be caused by a simple cold or upper respiratory tract infection, but they may also be among the first signs of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Now, new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has revealed an association between an impaired sense of smell and myasthenia gravis (MG), a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease characterized by fluctuating fatigue and muscle weakness. The findings are published in the latest edition of PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-association-rare-neuromuscular-disorder-loss.html Neuroscience Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:00:08 EST news269705411 (HealthDay) -- Instead of reaching for a commercial medicine when your child is coughing through the night because of a common cold, Israeli researchers suggest giving honey a try. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-honey-sweet-treatment-kids-night-time.html Pediatrics Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:49:23 EST news263468943 Because whooping cough (pertussis) is almost as contagious as measles (affecting ~12-17 individuals with each case), clinicians are required to report cases of this bacterial respiratory tract infection to the state's department of public health. In 2010, California had the highest number of cases of whooping cough in 60 years. A new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics describes the 2010 whooping cough epidemic and details strategies to decrease the incidence of this infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-california-whooping-epidemic.html Pediatrics Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:01 EST news261849094 (Medical Xpress) -- Pediatricians often treat young children who have frequent bouts of wheezing with a daily dose of an inhaled steroid to keep asthma symptoms at bay. But results of a recent study are likely to change that. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-daily-wheezing-treatment-intermittent-toddlers.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:50:01 EST news241345863 A blood protein known as surfactant protein-D (SP-D), which is mainly synthesised in the lungs, has been described as "a good predictor" of cardiovascular disease following a large study in North America. Reporting the study online today in the European Heart Journal, the investigators said that circulating SP-D levels were clearly associated with CVD and total mortality in patients with angiographically diagnosed coronary artery disease independent of other well established risk factors (such as age, smoking, cholesterol and C-reactive protein levels). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-circulating-lung-protein-strongly-cardiovascular.html Cardiology Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:54:55 EST news226724073