http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that the race and sex of study personnel can influence a patient's decision on whether or not to participate in clinical research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-patient-sex-personnel.html Health Fri, 17 May 2013 11:42:22 EST news288009724 Female rats are much more likely to binge eat than male rats, according to new research that provides some of the strongest evidence yet that biology plays a role in eating disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-biology-binge.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 May 2013 10:33:42 EST news286623216 Since 1977, there has been a 70% increase in caffeine consumption among children and adolescents. Whether it is coffee, tea, soda, or energy drinks, our children are consuming more of it. One well documented effect of caffeine is improved cognitive performance on certain tasks. However, scientists also hypothesize that habitual caffeine use may lead to greater neural rewards if the caffeine drinker were to consume illicit drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-caffeine-effect-cognitive-tasks-food.html Health Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00:06 EST news285849631 Male rat pups have more of a specific brain protein associated with language development than females, according to a study published February 20 in The Journal of Neuroscience. The study also found sex differences in the brain protein in a small group of children. The findings may shed light on sex differences in communication in animals and language acquisition in people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-language-protein-differs-males-females.html Neuroscience Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:00:05 EST news280515146 For decades, popular writers have entertained readers with the premise that men and women are so psychologically dissimilar they could hail from entirely different planets. But a new study shows that it's time for the Mars/Venus theories about the sexes to come back to Earth. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-men-earth-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:07:48 EST news279191223 (HealthDay)—Significant differences have been identified in the return-to-work (RTW) process for male and female cancer survivors, according to research published online Jan. 28 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-sex-differences-cancer-survivors.html Cancer Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:26:00 EST news278943954 Women suffering from sleep apnea have, on the whole, a higher degree of brain damage than men with the disorder, according to a first-of-its-kind study conducted by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing. The findings are reported in the December issue of the peer-reviewed journal Sleep. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-women-apnea-higher-degree-brain.html Sleep apnea Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:50:21 EST news273772191 Everyone knows that men and women tend to hold different views on certain things. However, new research by scientists from the University of Bristol and published in PLoS ONE indicates that this may literally be the case. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-men-women-explore-visual-world.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:38:17 EST news273523084 A new study suggests that increasing the amount of sleep that adults get could lead to reduced food intake, but the hormonal process differs between men and women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-duration-affects-hunger-differently-men.html Health Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:52:11 EST news270921125 Teenage girls with severe antisocial behaviour show abnormal changes in the structure of their brains, according to a study published today. The findings support previous studies in boys that suggested the brains of teenagers with behaviour problems may operate differently, and they could also explain why boys are more likely than girls to develop behaviour problems. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-brain-teenage-girls-severe.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:10:50 EST news270285013 Men and women with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) may show subtle but significant differences in the cognitive functions impacted by the condition, according to new research published Oct 17 by Meng-Chuan Lai and colleagues from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK in the open access journal PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-impact-autism-men-women.html Autism spectrum disorders Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:00:03 EST news269710319 (Medical Xpress)—Women are better than men at recognizing living things and men are better than women at recognizing vehicles. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-sex-guys-cars-women-birds.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:40:49 EST news267118839 A group of experts has developed consensus recommendations for future research directions to determine why nearly two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are women. The recommendations are published in a Roundtable discussion in Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-alzheimer-disease-affect-women-men.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:36:34 EST news266060179 The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-eyes-men-differently-women.html Neuroscience Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:00:01 EST news265893277 Child mortality is a key indicator not only of child health and nutrition but also of the implementation of child survival interventions and, more broadly, of social and economic development. Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a two thirds reduction in the under-five mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. With the renewed focus on child survival, tracking of progress in the reduction of child mortality is increasingly important. A sponsored collection of new articles on the methodology for estimation of child mortality was published today in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine, in conjunction with the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) and the Technical Advisory Group (TAG). The collection contains seven peer reviewed articles and introduces the methodological innovations by the TAG and UN IGME in estimating child mortality which are critical to the monitoring of progress toward the MDG goal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-plos-child-mortality-methods.html Health Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:00:12 EST news265374802 (Medical Xpress)—Women with Alzheimer's show worse mental deterioration than men with the disease, even when at the same stage of the condition, according to researchers from the University of Hertfordshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-women-alzheimer-deteriorate-faster-men.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:55:08 EST news265028017 Some women’s vulnerability to anxiety and mood disorders may be explained by their estrogen levels, according to new research by Harvard and Emory University neuroscientists presented in this month’s issue of Biological Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-estrogen-female-anxiety-mood-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 10 Aug 2012 04:33:00 EST news263791872 A new study is the first to find a difference between how boys and girls respond to prenatal exposure to the insecticide chlorpyrifos. Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health found that, at age 7, boys had greater difficulty with working memory, a key component of IQ, than girls with similar exposures. On the plus side, having nurturing parents improved working memory, especially in boys, although it did not lessen the negative cognitive effects of exposure to the chemical. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-boys-vulnerable-girls-insecticide-chlorpyrifos.html Health Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:52:36 EST news263649142 An Indiana University study that looked at performance differences between male and female childhood athletes found little difference in certain age groups, even though boys and girls rarely compete against each other in the U.S. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-girls-athletically-boys.html Health Thu, 31 May 2012 00:20:01 EST news257611640 New research out of Michigan State University reveals female athletes and younger athletes take longer to recover from concussions, findings that call for physicians and athletic trainers to take sex and age into account when dealing with the injury. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-female-younger-athletes-longer-concussions.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 13:19:14 EST news255701913 Men and women have large differences in personality, according to a new study published Jan. 4 in the online journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-men-women-major-personality-differences.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:00:01 EST news244915868 Boosting a woman's confidence makes her better at spatial tasks, University of Warwick scientists have found, suggesting skills such as parking and map-reading could come more easily if a woman is feeling good about herself. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-confidence-key-women-spatial-skills.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:14:56 EST news242313276 (Medical Xpress) -- Teacher, pilot, nurse or engineer? Sex hormones strongly influence people's interests, which affect the kinds of occupations they choose, according to psychologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-sex-hormones-impact-career-choices.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:31:37 EST news234088279 Despite improvements in survival for people with cystic fibrosis over the last 50 years, females and individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds continue to die younger than males and the more privileged in society, finds a study published in the British Medical Journal today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-female-affluent-linked-early-death.html Health Wed, 24 Aug 2011 03:53:04 EST news233376766 (Medical Xpress) -- Rates of smoking have been reducing in men but increasing in young women in some countries, and now a new review of earlier studies has shown that smoking cigarettes poses a larger risk factor for heart disease in women than in men. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-cigarettes-worse-women-hearts-men.html Health Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:18:53 EST news232341475 Heart disease can sneak up on women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss. It's part of a puzzling gender gap: Women tend to have different heart attack symptoms than men. They're more likely to die in the year after a first heart attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-heart-disease-killer-women.html Cardiology Mon, 04 Jul 2011 08:40:01 EST news228987591 A recently published paper highlights that while the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is more common in those with migraine than those without migraine irrespective of sex, the risk is greater in male migraineurs than female migraineurs. Study details are now available in Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Headache Society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-sex-men-migraine-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:02:16 EST news226141319