http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New evidence from a four-year field study has shown that BCG vaccination reduces the risk of tuberculosis infection in unvaccinated badger cubs in vaccinated groups, as well as in badgers that received the vaccine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-vaccination-unvaccinated-badger-cubs-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:00:03 EST news274553759 From the playground to the office, a key aspect of our social lives involves figuring out who "belongs" and who doesn't. Our biases lead us—whether we're aware of it or not—to favor people who belong to our own social group. Scientists theorize that these prevalent in-group biases may give us a competitive advantage against others, especially when important resources are limited. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-tight.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 28 Nov 2012 11:37:58 EST news273325062 A report by the University of Otago, Wellington shows that many young people attracted to more than one gender tend to binge drink because they feel stigmatised and socially excluded. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-social-exclusion-binge-young-people.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:21:04 EST news271934455 The ranking of a monkey within her social environment and the stress accompanying that status dramatically alters the expression of nearly 1,000 genes, a new scientific study reports. The research is the first to demonstrate a link between social status and genetic regulation in primates on a genome-wide scale, revealing a strong, plastic link between social environment and biology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-social-stress-affects-immune-gene.html Genetics Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:00:01 EST news253187311 "Broken-hearted" isn't just a metaphor -- social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. In the paper, she surveys recent research on the overlap between physical and social pain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-broken-hearts.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:54:19 EST news249134050 Be it at school, office, the neighborhood or the community people live in, conflicting situations amongst various groups might arise on an almost day to day basis. Today, the prevalence of these intergroup conflicts is on the rise and has resulted in minor disagreements amongst friends to waging full scale wars between countries. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-conflict-social-identity-threatened.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:53:25 EST news237138794 Women's bias against male strangers increases when women are fertile, suggesting prejudice may be partly fueled by genetics, according to a study by Michigan State University psychology researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-prejudice-linked-women-menstrual.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:59:04 EST news227955519