http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Allegations of widespread, sustained torture and other human rights violations by the Government of Sudan and Janjaweed forces against non-Arabic-speaking civilians are corroborated in a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine. In the study medical forensic experts reviewed the medical records of patients seen at a clinic in Darfur. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-credible-medical-evidence-widespread-torture.html Health Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:00:17 EST news252688578 African Americans in Georgia, especially in rural areas, have drastically poorer survival rates from cancer. These disparities are much larger when compared to national data, according to the findings from a study recently published in the journal Cancer by a team of researchers in the University of Georgia College of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-1057ancer-survival-uncovers-wide-racial.html Cancer Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:15:18 EST news250874113 The number of hospitals in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince two years after its earthquake are not sufficient to serve the population, Medecins sans Frontieres said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-years-haiti-quake-health-disarray.html Health Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:58:00 EST news245509073 Hong Kong authorities say two more dead birds have tested positive for a dangerous strain of bird flu, adding to health worries in the city. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-dead-birds-hk-positive-h5n1.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:34:06 EST news245050440 A study on the geographic mobility of registered nurses (RNs) recently published in the December Health Affairs magazine suggests that the profession's relative lack of mobility has serious implications for access to health care for people in rural areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-registered-nurses-lack-geographic-mobility.html Health Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:50:01 EST news242649546 New research casts doubt on a popular treatment for breast cancer: A week of radiation to part of the breast instead of longer treatment to all of it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-faults-partial-breast-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:45:01 EST news242419488 Health care coverage increased dramatically in parts of China between 1997 and 2006, a period when government interventions were implemented to improve access to health care, with particularly striking upswings in rural areas, according to new research by Brown University sociologist Susan E. Short and Hongwei Xu of the University of Michigan. The findings appear in the December issue of Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-chinese-health-coverage-efforts.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:37:55 EST news242325454 Women living in rural areas face unique challenges concerning health and wellness issues. Now, an MU researcher has found that rural women are more likely than women living in cities to be diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, the most severe form of the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-rural-women-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:04:08 EST news238694642 Persistent high poverty is most prevalent among children, with those living in rural America disproportionally impacted, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-poor-kids.html Health Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:07:25 EST news238151235 An innovative program at the University of Missouri School of Medicine could help states deal with a dilemma in Washington, D.C. If deficit-reduction measures cut billions of dollars for training physicians who are already in short supply, who will care for the more than 30 million newly insured patients entering the health care system? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-homegrown-solution-physician-shortage-academic.html Health Wed, 28 Sep 2011 10:41:07 EST news236425246 In a first of its kind study, researchers have found that using two way audio-video telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that don't have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff. The research is published in the September 14, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-good-news-rural-patients-virtual.html Neuroscience Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:29:43 EST news235236545 A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-china-suicide-highest-world.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:39:42 EST news234689529 In dengue-endemic areas such as South-East Asia, in contrast to conventional thinking, rural areas rather than cities may bear the highest burden of dengue fever—a viral infection that causes sudden high fever, severe headache, and muscle and joint pains, and can lead to a life-threatening condition, dengue hemorrhagic fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-rural-areas-higher-dengue-fever.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:47:56 EST news233945225 Researchers at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, have examined a number of plants which are used for illegal abortions in Tanzania. The lab tests show that several of the plants can make the uterus tissue contract and that the plants therefore can be used to stop lethal bleedings after birth. This new knowledge is now to be conveyed in rural Tanzania where access to medicine often is difficult. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-herbal-abortion-african-women.html Medications Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:40:09 EST news233573996 Cholera has killed at least four people in an outbreak in the past three weeks in western Burundi, where more than 400 people are infected, a health ministry official said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-cholera-infects-burundi.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:05:06 EST news233226293 Families are increasingly relying on public health insurance plans to provide coverage for their children, a growing trend that researchers say is tied to job losses, coverage changes to private health insurance plans, and expanded access to public plans, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-families-shifting-private-health-children.html Health Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:04:37 EST news230954663 (Medical Xpress) -- People living with Type 2 Diabetes are being recruited for a national online survey to understand how it affects their quality of life. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-impact-diabetes-life-quality.html Health Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:23:45 EST news229674094 (Medical Xpress) -- If you want to improve HIV testing rates in remote rural areas, get the community involved, says UCLA's Thomas Coates, who has directed a new study examining HIV testing programs in communities in Africa and Southeast Asia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-hiv-village.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 05 May 2011 06:32:50 EST news223795946 In urban communities, less than 1 in 100 inhabitants died from Spanish flu in 1918, but in isolated communities up to 9 out of 10 died. An important explanation for the differences is due to different exposure to influenza in the decades before the Spanish flu came. Those living in urban communities probably had a higher degree of pre-existing immunity that protected against illness and death in 1918 than those living in very isolated rural areas. This is shown in a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-large-differences-mortality-urban-isolated.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:31:22 EST news223119068