http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have devised a 'magic bullet' nanomedicine which could become the first effective treatment for Acute Lung Injury or ALI, a condition affecting 20 per cent of all patients in intensive care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-scientists-magic-bullet-nanomedicine-acute.html Medical research Wed, 15 May 2013 00:10:01 EST news287774218 More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the world's roads each year, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, slamming decades of neglect in favour of vehicle transportation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-pedestrians-year.html Health Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:02 EST news286710081 (Medical Xpress)—Exposure to noise, for example from road traffic, may adversely affect the cardiovascular system. Until now, underlying mechanisms linking noise to elevated cardiovascular risk have rarely been explored in epidemiological studies. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München have now shown that exposure to noise during everyday life influences heart rate variability, i.e. the ability of the heart to adjust the rate at which it beats to acute events. The results were published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-exposure-everyday-noise-heart-variability.html Health Thu, 02 May 2013 07:20:01 EST news286695411 The association between road traffic and heart disease has been suggested in several studies. In 2012 a large prospective cohort study from Denmark showed that traffic noise was significantly associated with risk of heart attack - for every 10 decibel increase in noise exposure (either at the time of the attack or over the five years preceding it) there was a 12% increased risk.(1) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-long-term-exposure-fine-particles-traffic.html Health Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:00:02 EST news285437239 People with sleep apnoea are more likely to fail a driving simulator test and report nodding whilst driving, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-apnoea-patients-wheel-simulator.html Sleep apnea Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:00:03 EST news284915184 New research conducted in 10 European cities has estimated that 14% of chronic childhood asthma is due to exposure to traffic pollution near busy roads. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-road-traffic-pollution-passive-childhood.html Inflammatory disorders Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:00:01 EST news283105325 (AP)—The World Health Organization says only 7 percent of the world's population lives in nations where there are adequate road safety laws. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-world-lags-road-safety-laws.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:23:27 EST news282479000 Air pollution contributes to an increased number of deaths among patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart attacks, according to a study published online today (Wednesday) in the European Heart Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-exposure-air-pollution-deaths-heart.html Cardiology Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:10:02 EST news280515648 Obese drivers are significantly more likely to die in a road traffic collision than people of normal weight, indicates US research published online in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-obese-die-car-weight-drivers.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news278007660 Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School have for the first time identified the mechanism that protects us from developing uncontrollable fear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-breakthrough-trauma.html Neuroscience Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:31:09 EST news268651863 The World Health Organization recently recognized environmental noise as harmful pollution, with adverse psychosocial and physiological effects on public health. A new study of noise pollution in Fulton County, Georgia, suggests that many residents are exposed to high noise levels that put them at risk of annoyance or sleep disturbance, which can have serious health consequences. The research is published in the October issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-substantial-road-traffic-noise-urban.html Health Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EST news266516199 (Medical Xpress)—Many people going into hospital have concerns about contracting the hospital acquired infection MRSA, yet the risk of acquiring - and dying from – hospital acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) is much greater, warn scientists at the University of Birmingham. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-patients-underestimate-deep-vein-thrombosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:42:06 EST news265876899 (Medical Xpress) -- Road traffic crashes kill more than 1.2 million people each year, with 90 percent of those fatalities occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Yet despite a growing body of data to support effective and proven interventions, proportional funding for implementation in developing countries has not been forthcoming, leaving a gap between evidence and action. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-global-road-safety.html Health Wed, 06 Jun 2012 05:50:01 EST news258179838 There is wide variation between and within regions in the profile of adolescent health. The highest death rates remain in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC). Alarmingly, adolescents in these countries are rapidly acquiring western health risks including high rates of tobacco and alcohol use, obesity and physical inactivity. The authors of the fourth and final paper in The Lancet Series on Adolescent Health call better coordination across UN agencies and their surveys to fill data gaps, as well as calling on each country around the world to produce a regular report on the health of its adolescents. The paper is by Professor George C Patton, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, and University of Melbourne, Australia and Dr Claudia Cappa, UNICEF, New York, USA, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-tide-health-engulfs-largest-adolescents.html Health Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:30:02 EST news254507706 The deployment of speed cameras in urban areas saves vast amounts of money as well as lives, reveals a two year financial analysis, published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cameras-urban-areas-millions-cash.html Health Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:20:01 EST news231040847