http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A Brazilian investigative team, collaborating with a Simon Fraser University researcher, is citing an urgent need for targeted interventions among young crack users in cities throughout Brazil, identified as the world's biggest crack market, and further research to better address the problem. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-user-critical-intervention.html Addiction Tue, 14 May 2013 08:55:43 EST news287740494 (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 About 50 Brazilian health officials and law enforcement agents are rounding up crack addicts in the city of Sao Paulo and forcibly putting them in treatment if deemed necessary. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-treatment-addicts-sao-paulo.html Addiction Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:43:37 EST news277987393 (AP)—Officials in Brazil's most populous state say they will start forcing adult crack addicts to go to rehabilitation centers in an effort to curb growing use of the drug. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brazilian-addicts-forcibly-committed.html Addiction Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:37:09 EST news276518223 (HealthDay)—Although penile shortening of about 1 cm can occur at three months after a radical prostatectomy (RP) for the treatment of localized prostate cancer, recovery of penile length begins after 24 months and is complete after 48 months, according to a study published in the December issue of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-penile-length-radical-prostatectomy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:30:01 EST news274893906 How would you respond if someone told you that you have a very dedicated son and that he got the scholarship he most wished? Or that the company you worked for made great profits and you will receive a good salary raise? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-neural-signature-affiliative-human-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:20:01 EST news265972354 Brazilian researchers say they have successfully tested a vaccine against schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-brazil-successful-parasite-vaccine.html Medications Wed, 13 Jun 2012 04:30:05 EST news258780590 A new Audit report on fragility fractures, issued today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), predicts that Brazil will experience an explosion in the number of fragility fractures due to osteoporosis in the coming decades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-brazil-hip-fractures-percent.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 24 May 2012 11:53:06 EST news257079038 Rio de Janeiro has declared a dengue epidemic after diagnosing more than 50,000 cases of the tropical mosquito-borne infection this year and over 500 in the last week alone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-rio-declares-dengue-epidemic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:30:02 EST news254560529 In Brazil, a country known for girls in mini-bikinis and where body-consciousness borders on obsession, nearly half the population is overweight, a study by the Ministry of Health released Tuesday found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-brazil-alarmed-obesity.html Health Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:47:34 EST news253302443 Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilla on Thursday warned that Rio de Janeiro faced a major dengue epidemic, although he said the virus strain prevalent was not fatal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-rio-dengue-epidemic-brazil-health.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:19:37 EST news248638762 The government of Rio de Janeiro state will distribute more than three million condoms free of charge during Brazil's five-day carnival that begins Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-rio-million-free-condoms-carnival.html Health Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:50:02 EST news248621716