http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Unemployment, multiple job losses and short periods without work may be associated with increased risk for acute myocardial infarction (AMI, heart attack), according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unemployment-heart.html Cardiology Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:01 EST news272562446 In general, a deaf or hearing-impaired child knows fewer words than a child who can hear well. Researcher Karien Coppens of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) discovered that the weakness in vocabulary is the greatest when it comes to difficult words for which an in-depth understanding of their meaning is required. A limited vocabulary is the most important cause of problems in reading comprehension. An electronic vocabulary test, which will be used in primary schools for children with special needs, has been developed on the basis of the research results. Coppens gained her doctorate from Radboud University Nijmegen on 5 October 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-deaf-children-vocabulary-words-difficult.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:14:53 EST news271070076 If a medical study seems too good to be true, it probably is, according to a new analysis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-medical-results-false.html Cancer Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:20:01 EST news270314004 University of Otago researchers have found that serious assaults in New Zealand have been steadily rising and are now at disturbingly high levels, especially among young males, Maori and Pacific people, and those from deprived neighbourhoods. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-assaults-zealand-disturbingly-high.html Health Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:35:31 EST news269246124 A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-swine-flu-vaccine-linked-child.html Medications Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:23:09 EST news267459782 (Medical Xpress)—UK scientists have made a breakthrough in a new method of brain tumour diagnosis, offering hope to tens of thousands of people. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-fingerprinting-breakthrough-brain-tumour-diagnosis.html Medical research Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:34:21 EST news267438833 Merely showing up to work in an environment where bullying goes on is enough to make many of us think about quitting, a new study suggests. Canadian researchers writing in the journal Human Relations published by SAGE, have found that nurses not bullied directly, but who worked in an environment where workplace bullying occurred, felt a stronger urge to quit than those actually being bullied. These findings on 'ambient' bullying have significant implications for organizations, as well as contributing a new statistical approach to the field. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-ambient-bullying-employees-urge.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:55:38 EST news260182509 The journal Computers in Biology and Medicine has published an article on the new IT application BootstRatio, created by IDIBELL researchers. The application allows online statistical analysis of data from gene expression. It is accessible through http://regstattools.net/br and any scientist is already to use it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-application-online-statistical-analysis-gene-expression.html Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:17:43 EST news252667053 Dr. Rabab Mohsin, an internal medicine resident at the University of Kentucky, working with Dr. Alison Bailey of the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute, has discovered that the drug warfarin was underutilized in a large study group of women. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-warfarin-underutilized-women.html Medications Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:40:03 EST news242996577 A study led by Benjamin Chi of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA and colleagues reports on the development of a standard definition for loss-to-follow-up (LTFU) that can be used by HIV antiretroviral programs worldwide. Based on their findings, which are published in this week's PLoS Medicine, the authors recommend that the standard definition for LTFU should be when 180 days or more have elapsed since the patient's last clinic visit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-standard-definition-loss-to-follow-up-art-patients.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:47:48 EST news238783472 Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasn't been well understood, but a new study by researchers at Brown University presents the counterintuitive finding that certain kinds of stressful life events cause panic symptoms to increase gradually over succeeding months, rather than to spike immediately. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-panic-symptoms-steadily-acutely-stressful.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:56:34 EST news227804111 Overweight carries a greatly increased risk of cirrhosis of the liver in men, reveals a new study from the Sahlgrenska Academy. "Given the increasing problem of overweight in Sweden, there is reason to fear that more people will develop cirrhosis of the liver," says Jerzy Kaczynski, docent at the Sahlgrenska Academy and doctor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-overweight-liver-alcohol-middle-aged-men.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:50:51 EST news226666200 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Anoop Shah of University College London and colleagues report that, in people with stable coronary disease, there were threshold haemoglobin values below which mortality increased in a graded, continuous fashion. As well as a systematic review and statistical analysis of previous studies, the researchers conducted a retrospective analysis of patients from a prospective observational cohort. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-threshold-hemoglobin-mortality-people-stable.html Cardiology Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:41:51 EST news226122074