http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—Sunbathers this summer will find new sunscreen labels that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-consumer-group-flags-high-spf.html Health Mon, 20 May 2013 04:53:39 EST news288244351 Osteopathy may help reduce chronic pain and stiffness after thoracic surgery. However, electrotherapy is not effective pain treatment in the aftermath of pancreatic surgery. These are the findings of a thesis from Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, that studied complementary and alternative therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-complementary-alternative-medicine-swedish-surgical.html Other Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:57:08 EST news274013622 The ability to correctly identify signs of depression depends on the gender of both the identifier and the person with depression, as well as individual psychological differences, according to research published November 14 by Viren Swami from the University of Westminster, UK. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-people-symptoms-depression-readily-women.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:10:04 EST news272130570 Medical students in the United States are frequently exposed to pharmaceutical marketing, even in their preclinical years, and the extent of their contact with industry is associated with positive attitudes about marketing and skepticism towards any negative implications. These findings from research led by Kirsten Austad and Aaron S. Kesselheim from the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, suggest that strategies to educate students about interactions with the pharmaceutical industry should directly address widely-held misconceptions about the effects of marketing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-medical-students-substantial-exposure-pharmaceutical.html Other Tue, 24 May 2011 17:48:06 EST news225478065