http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Poverty and disease often come together. That much is well understood. But how much does poverty foster disease? Or, how much can disease perpetuate poverty? And what's the role of nature, given that so many infectious diseases are spread by mosquitoes or spend part of their life cycle outside of the human body? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-links-disease-poverty-biodiversity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:50:01 EST news275922401 The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is low in countries where consumption of black tea is high, suggests a mathematical analysis of data from 50 countries, published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-prevalence-diabetes-regular-black-tea.html Diabetes Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:30:01 EST news271524624 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 Most people are rather vague when reporting on food and drink consumption, smoking and exercise habits. General practitioners, however, are skilled at interpreting phrases such as "I only have a few drinks rarely...each week" and "I get to the gym regularly" and can estimate based on symptoms and a person's physical appearance just how precise those claims are. However, it is crucial for healthcare research and epidemiology that relies on patient self-reporting that we find a more objective, rather than intuitive, way to identify bias in self-reporting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-bias-medical.html Other Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:36:03 EST news238062956 Zeroing in on the early cell mutations that enable a cancer to grow is one of the best ways to find a personalized therapy to stop it. Scientists were able to use a statistical approach for the first time to map out the order in which these abnormalities form to analyze the pattern of DNA changes in advanced skin and ovarian tumors. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-scientists-method-mutations-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:28:51 EST news228655722