http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Skydivers show the same level of physical stress before every jump whether a first-timer or experienced jumper, say Northumbria researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-skydiving-plane.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:07 EST news288015808 New research indicates that women's reproductive function may be tied to their immune status. Previous studies have found this association in human males, but not females. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-women-reproductive-ability-immune-status.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Fri, 17 May 2013 14:34:20 EST news288020043 Why do so many sports players and athletes choose to wear the color red when they compete? A new study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that it may have to do with their testosterone levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-high-testosterone-competitors-red.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 16 May 2013 11:25:37 EST news287922292 (Medical Xpress)—For years, Paul Shaw, PhD, a researcher at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has used what he learns in fruit flies to look for markers of sleep loss in humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-unusual-comparison-nets-loss-marker.html Medical research Fri, 03 May 2013 06:54:01 EST news286782779 (Medical Xpress)—Scientists from The University of Manchester have identified 14 new genes which could have important consequences for future treatments of childhood arthritis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-discovery-genes-childhood-arthritis-treatment.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:05:34 EST news285836724 (Medical Xpress)—A new study indicates that a simple saliva test could be an effective tool in predicting violent behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-saliva-aggression-boys.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:55:01 EST news283542890 For chronic pain sufferers, such as people who develop back pain after a car accident, avoiding the harmful effects of stress may be key to managing their condition. This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-chronic-pain-stress.html Neuroscience Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:08:10 EST news280987682 Lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) who are out to others have lower stress hormone levels and fewer symptoms of anxiety, depression, and burnout, according to researchers at the Centre for Studies on Human Stress (CSHS) at Louis H. Lafontaine Hospital, affiliated with the University of Montreal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-health-benefits-closet.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:10:01 EST news278613398 Children of low socioeconomic status work harder to filter out irrelevant environmental information than those from a high-income background because of learned differences in what they pay attention to, according to new research published in the open access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-family-economic-situation-brain-function.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:39:47 EST news273321580 A team of researchers at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has identified a significant relationship between mortality and the length of telomeres, the stretches of DNA that protect the ends of chromosomes, according to a presentation on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-significant-relationship-mortality-telomere-length.html Genetics Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:30:05 EST news271583215