http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The development of a highly accurate, blood-based pancreatic adenocarcinoma screen that would be accurate enough to test the general population for this deadly disease may not be far out of reach, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Pancreatic Cancer: Progress and Challenges conference, held here June 18-21, 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-biomarker-panel-screen-pancreatic-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:30:15 EST news259332637 Scientists from Australia and Oxford University have carried out a complex analysis in an attempt to determine the "optimal" level of alcohol consumption that is associated with the lowest rates of chronic disease in the UK. They conclude that the intake of about one-half of a typical drink per day would result in the healthiest outcomes, and the authors conclude that the recommended alcohol intake for the UK should be reduced from the current advised level of drinking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-statistical-alcohol-consumption-optimal-health.html Health Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:51:08 EST news258205848 The evidence underlying the current widely-held view that foreign aid for health in a recipient country leads to a displacement or diversion of government funds from that country's health sector is unreliable and should not be used to guide policy, according to experts writing in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-negative-view-foreign-aid-health.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 17:00:06 EST news255711750 A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-income-inequality-deaths.html Health Tue, 08 May 2012 16:15:26 EST news255712299 (Medical Xpress) -- Some people quit smoking on the first try while others have to quit repeatedly. Using such mobile technology as hand-held computers and smartphones, a team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh is trying to find out why. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mobile-technology-explore-nicotine-addiction.html Addiction Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:06:37 EST news252749187 Older maternal and paternal age are jointly associated with having a child with autism, according to a recently published study led by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-maternal-paternal-age-linked-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:10:01 EST news248098189 Levels of health disparity have increased substantially for people born in the United States after 1980, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-health-gap-grown-young-adults.html Health Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:40:01 EST news241928616 Using outbreak data from 2003-2010, Kathleen O'Reilly of Imperial College London, UK and colleagues develop a statistical model of the spread of wild polioviruses in Africa that can predict polio outbreaks six months in advance. The authors' findings, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, indicate that outbreaks of polio in Africa over the study period resulted mainly from continued transmission in Nigeria and other countries that reported polio cases, and from poor immunization status. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-polio.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:23:35 EST news238177407 While it's been long established that watching violent scenes increases aggression levels, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics suggests that profanity in the media may have a similar effect. Pediatrics is the top-ranked journal in its field and among the top 2 percent most-cited scientific and medical journals in the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-profanity-tv-video-games-linked.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 17 Oct 2011 04:50:01 EST news238044243 A Californian-based study has looked in detail at air quality and the impact of traffic-related air pollution on premature birth. Published in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health, results from this study show that traffic-related air pollution, especially polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), is associated with up to a 30% increase in premature births, and that seasonal changes and vicinity to the coast affected concentration of toxic pollutants in the air. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pregnant-mothers-air-pollution.html Health Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:13:50 EST news237179614 the ups and downs, and everything in between -- shape us, stay with us and influence our emotional set point as adults, according to a new study led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-we-are-what-experience-study.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:14:15 EST news237050047 Researchers have developed a more accurate method for estimating breast cancer risk for Asian and Pacific Islander American (APA) women. Most current risk estimates rely on data from non-Hispanic white women, but researchers have now come up with a statistical model that more specifically assesses risk for American women who identify themselves as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Hawaiian, other Pacific Islander, or other Asian. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-breast-cancer-asian-americans.html Cancer Tue, 17 May 2011 07:04:01 EST news224834501