http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. High blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries, a new study has found. These health risks have traditionally been associated with affluence, and in 1980, they were more prevalent in countries with a higher income. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-diseases-affluence-poorer-countries.html Cardiology Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:33:10 EST news284729580 The public is very supportive of government action aimed at changing lifestyle choices that can lead to obesity, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases—but they're less likely to support such interventions if they're viewed as intrusive or coercive, according to a new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study. The study also found that support was higher for interventions that help people make more healthful choices, such as menu labeling requirements, than for interventions that penalize certain choices or health conditions, such as charging higher insurance premiums for obese individuals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-survey-legal-interventions-obesity-noncommunicable.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:02 EST news281616131 Video games have been blamed for contributing to the epidemic of childhood obesity in the United States. But a new study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) suggests that certain blood-pumping video games can actually boost energy expenditures among inner city children, a group that is at high risk for unhealthy weight gain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-e-games-boost-physical-children-weapon.html Health Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:29:12 EST news276949745 Higher neighborhood education is associated with better self-rated health among Asian Americans who live in Asian ethnic neighborhoods, but this correlation between individual health and neighborhood education levels does not exist for Asian Americans living in non-Asian neighborhoods, according to a recent study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-asian-american-neighborhoods-affect-residents.html Health Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:15:21 EST news271602906 UK medical school teaching on physical activity is "sparse or non-existent," finds research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-uk-medical-school-physical-virtually.html Health Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:48:25 EST news262633625