http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As scientists probe and parse the genetic bases of what makes a human a human (or one human different from another), and vigorously push for greater use of whole genome sequencing, they find themselves increasingly threatened by the unthinkable: Too much data to make full sense of. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-methods-scientists-genome-wide-association.html Genetics Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:06:17 EST news286185970 A team of scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-method-accurately-disease-outbreaks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:00:02 EST news283169570 Data, data everywhere. In genomics research, there is a data deluge, so innovative ways to analyze all that information will play a critical role in future breakthroughs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-psychology-professor-clues-psychiatric-disorders.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:29:22 EST news274523356 New research has established the first global benchmarks for assessing lung function across the entire life span. The lung growth charts will help healthcare professionals better understand lung disease progression and help raise awareness of lung disease, which is the world's leading cause of death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-diagnosis-lung-disease-global-benchmarks.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:08:05 EST news265972078 Obesity is not to blame for poor educational performance, according to early findings from research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). In a study that combines statistical methods with genetic information, researchers dispel the false idea that being overweight has damaging educational consequences. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obese-kids-bright-thinner-peers.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:10:21 EST news261371412 Insufficient progress has been made in most developing countries to meet the United Nations' target of halving the proportion of children who suffer from hunger by 2015 compared with 1990 levels, according to a systematic analysis of data on children's height and weight, published today in the Lancet. Although the nutritional status of children under five has improved overall since 1985, one in five infants and children in developing countries is still moderately or severely underweight, amounting to an estimated 110 million children worldwide. Another 148 million are mildly underweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-world-percent-chance-child-hunger.html Health Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:00:01 EST news260626984 (AP) -- Trying to find a top specialist to assess potentially troubling findings on a routine mammogram? That nerve-wracking process may soon get easier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-feds-medicare-doctors.html Health Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:34:11 EST news242314446 (Medical Xpress) -- In threatening situations, the brain adapts within seconds to prepare for an appropriate response. Some regions are temporarily suppressed. Others become more active and form temporarily alliances for fight or flight. Noradrenaline is driving force behind this reorganization. (Science, November 25). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-sudden-stress-shifts-human-brain.html Neuroscience Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:06:56 EST news241441589