http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—Do ethicists engage in better moral behavior than other professors? The answer is no. Nor are they more likely than nonethicists to act according to values they espouse, according to researchers from the University of California, Riverside and Stetson University in Florida. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-ethicists-behavior-moral.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 May 2013 07:50:49 EST news288427838 Half of Australia's young male offenders have a clinically significant, previously unidentified language deficit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-young-toolkit-literacy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:20:01 EST news281779731 (Medical Xpress)—Experiencing a positive family climate as a teenager may be connected to your relationships later in life, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-positive-family-climate-adolescence-linked.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:17:31 EST news278853445 (Medical Xpress)—School psychologists and counsellors are concerned that overbearing parents are raising children unable to cope with failure and life outside of home, a new QUT study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-overparenting-trend-psychologists.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:58:03 EST news277451736 Being a good partner may make you a better parent, according to a new study. The same set of skills that we tap to be caring toward our partners is what we use to nurture our children, researchers found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-skills-good-partner-parent.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:27:14 EST news274098420 (HealthDay)—Overweight and obese children have a significantly increased risk of incident asthma, with evidence of a dose-response effect of elevated body mass index (BMI), according to a meta-analysis published online Nov. 12 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-role-bmi-incident-asthma-children.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:30:01 EST news272652502 (HealthDay)—There is increasing evidence that the small airways contribute significantly to the clinical expression and severity of asthma, according to research published online Nov. 9 in Allergy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-evidence-small-airway-role-asthma.html Immunology Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:10:02 EST news272652446 (Medical Xpress)—Doctors in Canada claim they have opened a communication channel, using fMRI, with a man assumed to be in a vegetative state for over twelve years. By asking the patient to envision two different types of mental exercises and assigning a value of yes or no respectively to each, while undergoing a brain scan, they believe car accident patient Scott Routley has informed them that he is not experiencing any pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-doctors-assumed-vegetative-state-fmri.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:40:02 EST news272098095 (HealthDay) -- Neuronal responsiveness of the hypothalamus to glucose, critical in the regulation of feeding, can be restored in patients with type 2 diabetes by short-term caloric restriction, according to a study published online July 30 in Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-caloric-restriction-glucose-response-diabetes.html Diabetes Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:41:10 EST news263745650 (HealthDay) -- For patients with lumbar spinal stenosis the Oswestry Disability Index, Modified Swiss Spinal Stenosis Scale (SSS), and Patient Specific Functional Scale have been shown to possess adequate psychometric properties for use in assessment of outcome, according to a study published online July 2 in The Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-idd-outcome-spinal-stenosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:50:01 EST news261287375 Children who develop asthma by age seven have deficits in lung function and increased bronchial responsiveness as neonates, a new study from researchers in Denmark suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-children-asthma-lung-function-deficits.html Inflammatory disorders Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:20:01 EST news252298730 Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are recruiting volunteers with asthma for a study of whether taking vitamin D can make asthma medication more effective. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-uic-effects-vitamin-d-asthma.html Medical research Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:28:01 EST news241763274 The relationship of platelet responsiveness to antiplatelet medications; and, the correlation of poor response, and overall platelet aggregation while on dual antiplatelet therapy to the risk of drug-eluting stent thrombosis after 30 days was examined in ADAPT-DES, the largest registry to date to fully examine these relationships. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-day-results-adapt-des-registry-tct.html Cardiology Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:10:20 EST news240077411 (Medical Xpress) -- Chronic stress in childhood can hurt children and teens physically, mentally and emotionally. However, having a sensitive, responsive mother can reduce at least one of these harmful effects, reports a new Cornell study. It shows that such moms can help buffer the effects of chronic stress on teens' working memories. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-mom-buffer-effects-stress-teen.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:45:47 EST news239348678 Patient satisfaction is increasingly recognized as an important component of quality of care. To achieve a high level of patient satisfaction, providers need to identify and address patients' expectations. However, a new international survey conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School reveals that while clinicians think it is important to ask patients about their expectations, they often fail to do so and consequently may not respond adequately. This research is published in the November issue of the British Medical Journal: Quality and Safety and was selected as the Editor's choice, making it available online in full text at no cost. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-uncovering-patient-satisfaction-international-survey.html Other Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:26:38 EST news238753579 Men who channeled positive thoughts into a five-week writing assignment about their testicular cancer showed signs of improved mental health afterward, in contrast to men who wrote negatively or neutrally about their condition, according to results of a Baylor University pilot study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-men-testicular-cancer-benefit-positively.html Cancer Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:53:48 EST news235306414 Since the first television screens lit up our living rooms scientists have been studying its affect on young children. Now scientists in Ohio have compared mother-child communication while watching TV to reading books or playing with Toys to reveal the impact on children's development. The results, published in Human Communication Research, show that watching TV can lead to less interaction between parents and children, with a detrimental impact on literacy and language skills. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-tv-negative-impact-parent-child-literacy.html Health Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:55:09 EST news235223694 The American Thoracic Society has issued the first-ever guidelines on the use of fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) that address when to use FENO and how to interpret FENO levels in different clinical settings. The guidelines, which appear in the September 1 American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, are graded based on the available evidence in the literature. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-ats-publishes-clinical-guidelines-feno.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:34:36 EST news234117259 Several chemicals that can accumulate to high levels in our body (for example BPA and some pesticides) have been recently linked to an increased risk of cancer and/or impaired responsiveness to anticancer drugs. A team of researchers, led by Sridhar Mani, at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, has now identified a potential mechanistic link between environmental exposure to these foreign chemicals (xenogens) and cancer drug therapy response and survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-pxr-stone-environmental-chemical-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:53:42 EST news229607612