http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The use of Internet-based stress management programs (ISM) effectively reduce stress for a sustainable period, according to a Cleveland Clinic study published recently in Annals of Behavioral Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-internet-based-effective-stress.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:02 EST news286480895 Women with coronary artery disease who completed a 12-week cardiac rehabilitation program were two-thirds less likely to die compared to those who were not referred to the program. In addition, the mortality benefit derived from this evidence-based program appears to be much more striking in women than men with the same condition, yet referrals and attendance among women fall short, according to research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's 62nd Annual Scientific Session. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-rehab-death-women-cad.html Cardiology Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:00:08 EST news281883454 For chronic pain sufferers, such as people who develop back pain after a car accident, avoiding the harmful effects of stress may be key to managing their condition. This is particularly important for people with a smaller-than-average hippocampus, as these individuals seem to be particularly vulnerable to stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-chronic-pain-stress.html Neuroscience Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:08:10 EST news280987682 (HealthDay)—The majority of patients with cardiovascular disease receiving outpatient cardiology evaluations report using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, according to a study published in the Feb. 1 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cardiac-patients-alternative-treatments.html Cardiology Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:44:43 EST news279891857 (HealthDay)—Health plan-initiated, employer-based wellness programs are being implemented to test new approaches to help reduce diabetes risk and, more broadly, to prevent chronic illness, according to research published online Jan. 31 in Preventing Chronic Disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-health-plan-employer-based-diabetes.html Diabetes Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:20:01 EST news279292167 While stress may be a factor in 60 to 80 percent of all visits to primary care physicians, only three percent of patients actually receive stress management counseling, say researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-stress-primary-rare.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:00:39 EST news272541438 A 10-week program that fits easily into the high school curriculum could give students a lifetime of less anger and lower blood pressure, researchers report. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-lifeskills-teens-anger-blood-pressure.html Health Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:44:22 EST news266514255 A new study shows that taking part in a stress management program may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) prevent new disease activity. The study is published in the July 11, 2012, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-stress-disease-multiple-sclerosis.html Neuroscience Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:00:04 EST news261240827 "Treatment of mental disorders within the health care system needs to be accompanied by a community-based approach that focuses on psychosocial problems," say the authors of a case study from Afghanistan published in this week's PLoS Medicine as part of the newly launched series on global mental health practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-health-approaches-mental-afghanistan.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 May 2012 17:00:03 EST news257522271 Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer might fight off distressing side effects and improve psychological well-being by staying off the couch. According to the University of Miami (UM) study, women who are physically active during treatment have less depression and an enhanced quality of life and report less debilitating fatigue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-quality-life-breast-cancer-treatment.html Cancer Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:41:30 EST news253600872 Two years ago, 57-year-old Allus Brown underwent a simultaneous heart-kidney transplant and spent months in and out of the hospital after battling dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition that enlarges and weakens the heart. Now fully recovered, Brown is still in and out of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute each week. Only nowadays when he visits, he's laughing it up, playing board games, and sharing accounts of his own struggles with heart disease as part of the Bluhm Institute's new and innovative program, SMART Heart, stress management and recreational therapy for heart patients. Brown says he thrives in his new role because it's one way he can give back and help others coping with the emotional aftermath of cardiac surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-smart-heart-eases-ache-cardiac.html Cardiology Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:47:59 EST news253468073 A team of researchers led by Michael H. Antoni, director of the Center for Psycho-Oncology Research at the University of Miami (UM) has shown that a stress management program tailored to women with breast cancer can alter tumor-promoting processes at the molecular level. The new study recently published in the journal Biological Psychiatry is one of the first to link psychological intervention with genetic expression in cancer patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-stress-breast-cancer-patients-affect.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:04:51 EST news251550204 Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is the most abundant peptide hormone of the central nervous system. It is involved in various processes including stress management, the development of anxiety behaviour and body weight regulation. A collaborative research group including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg has demonstrated using mice that intensive maternal care during infancy promotes the effect of NPY in the brain. As a result of receiving such care, the animals were also less anxious in adulthood and weighed more than their counterparts who had received less affection. The research group was able to show that the effect is explained by the maternal care which stimulated the persistent formation of certain NPY receptors in the forebrain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-maternal-brain-chemistry-adulthood.html Medical research Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:59:03 EST news242485135 A workplace program designed to teach employees to act more like consumers when they make health care decisions, for example, by finding and evaluating health information or choosing a benefit plan, also improved exercise, diet and other health habits, according to a new study in the latest issue of the American Journal of Health Promotion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-employee-heath-consumer-skills-health.html Health Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:45:49 EST news239273129 Almost a quarter of men and women in England and over a third of adults in America are obese. Obesity increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease and can significantly shorten a person's life expectancy. New research published by BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity shows that improving body image can enhance the effectiveness of weight loss programs based on diet and exercise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-body-weight.html Health Mon, 18 Jul 2011 04:20:01 EST news230180406 There is no doubt that undergoing infertility treatment is stressful, with high rates of anxiety and depression reported by many patients. Mind/body therapies designed to help women reduce stress earlier in the treatment process result in higher pregnancy rates, but little is known specifically about the impact of these therapies on women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-mindbody-pregnancy-ivf-treatment.html Other Mon, 09 May 2011 15:47:04 EST news224174761