http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A Web-based interactive anthology will provide psychologists, economists, anthropologists, sociologists and other scientists with the latest research methods and tools to address emerging challenges in public health, such as the obesity epidemic and the rise of chronic diseases such as heart disease. The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health collaborated with New England Research Institutes to create the free resource (http://www.esourceresearch.org/), called e-Source. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-nih-online-resource-behavioral-social.html Health Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:21:55 EST news251731287 Mothers who financially struggle to provide food for their families tend to put themselves at risk for obesity while trying to feed their children, according to Penn State sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-low-income-mothers-obesity-children.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:06:35 EST news251039183 Developing nations experiencing economic and social growth might also see growing waistlines among their poorest citizens, according to a new study from Rice University and the University of Colorado. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-economic-social-growth-nations-obesity.html Health Wed, 14 Mar 2012 11:36:17 EST news250943757 Attending a financially poor school may have more of an effect on unhealthy adolescent weight than family poverty, according to Penn State sociologists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-impoverished-schools-parent-key-factors.html Health Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:45:25 EST news247322719 Divorce at a younger age hurts people's health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-divorce-health-earlier-ages.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:06:22 EST news247143977 (Medical Xpress) -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hurricane-katrina-survivors-struggle-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:01:45 EST news246693697 Prejudice is linked to aggression for men and fear for women, suggests new research led by Michigan State University scholars. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-evolution-nature-prejudice-aggression-men.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:28:08 EST news246626866 People with mental illness have gotten a bad rap in past research studies, being labeled the group of people with the highest return rates to prison. But a researcher from the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University counters those findings in a new study—demonstrating that inmates with severe mental illnesses alone actually have lower rates of recidivism than those with substance abuse issues or no mental or substance abuse issues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-mental-illness-inmates.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:58:22 EST news246027483 (Medical Xpress)—The trauma of being a refugee can be worse than the trauma of war, according to a new Victoria University study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-refugee-trauma-worse-war.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:12:08 EST news240243119 The World Health Organization said a study has found that Filipino mothers who have been influenced by advertisements or their doctors to use infant formula are two to four times more likely to feed their babies with those products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-infant-formula-ads-breast-feeding.html Health Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:39:51 EST news239517577 Men are funnier than women, but only just barely and mostly to other men. So says a psychology study from the University of California, San Diego Division of Social Sciences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-men-humor-hair.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:12:16 EST news238259527 (Medical Xpress) -- According to a new UC Irvine study, undocumented immigrants living in Orange County utilized fewer medical services in 2005 than did documented immigrants and citizens of Latino and non-Latino white backgrounds in the region. The discrepancy was found to be, in large part, attributable to a lack of health insurance among undocumented immigrants. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-undocumented-immigrants-oc-health-rest.html Health Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:23:22 EST news237806529 A new University of British Columbia study finds that Black Canadians with darker skin are more likely to report poorer health than Black Canadians with lighter skin. The study also suggests that a mismatched racial identity can negatively affect health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-skin-canadians-health.html Health Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:50:16 EST news237631809 Parenthood accelerates weight gain over the life course according to a new study from The University of Texas at Austin. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-parenthood-long-term-weight-gain.html Health Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:18:13 EST news235988276 Women harbor a fat-stigma even though their family and closest friends may not judge them as "fat," according to findings by Arizona State University social scientists. Those research results, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, have scientists questioning the weight of messages from sources outside one's social networks, especially those in mass media marketing. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-fat-stigma-mass-media-messages-trump.html Health Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:33:57 EST news232774420 A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that community members correlate an increase in HIV vulnerability among adolescent girls with weak structural support systems. While adolescent girls are three to four times more likely than adolescent boys to be living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies have examined the reasons community members believe girls are so vulnerable to HIV. The findings are published in the journal Social Science & Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-factors-girls-vulnerability-hiv-sub-saharan.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:11:17 EST news229777867 Top-performing hospitals are typically ones headed by a medical doctor rather than a manager. That is the finding from a new study of what makes a good hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-hospitals-physicians.html Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:21:45 EST news229177216 Cultural, ethnic and gender stereotypes can significantly distort clinical judgments about "facially masked" patients with Parkinson's disease, according to a newly published study from researchers at Tufts University, Brandeis University and the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-ethnic-gender-stereotypes-bias-treatment.html Health Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:39:46 EST news229163976 The Internet is empowering its users more than ever, but the same technology that allows people access to limitless information has also enabled some to combat scientific or medical authority with their personal experiences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-disconnect-medical-expertise.html Other Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:34:28 EST news226139660