http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In the longest running U.S. study of premature infants who are now 23 years old, University of Rhode Island Professor of Nursing Mary C. Sullivan has found that premature infants are less healthy, have more social and school struggles and face a greater risk of heart-health problems in adulthood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-uri-nursing-effects-premature-birth.html Health Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:38:00 EST news227378258 (Medical Xpress) -- Trinity College Dublin researchers have discovered that blocking a particular stress response can significantly reduce the metastasis (or spread) of breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-insights-links-stress-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:33:59 EST news226136011 A team of researchers is beginning to see exactly what the response to threats looks like in the brain at the cellular and molecular levels. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-picture-threat-brain-neuroinflammation.html Neuroscience Tue, 03 May 2011 11:27:11 EST news223640808 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a spouse or life partner dies, the survivor experiences more illness, mental health issues and earlier death than non-widowed counterparts, research has found. Now, a new Cornell prospective study reports that the culprit is not bereavement's negative emotions -- grief, distress, fear and anger -- that disrupt the stress response system and cause harmful biological changes. The study finds that it is the steep drop in positive emotions that does the damage. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-positive-emotions-negative-linked.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:56:21 EST news221813762 For the first time in a human model, scientists have discovered how anti-depressants make new brain cells. This means that researchers can now develop better and more efficient drugs to combat depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-effective-anti-depressants.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:08:29 EST news221803696 Most breast cancers are fueled by estrogen, and anti-estrogenic agents often work for a time to control the cancers. But many of these cancers become resistant to the drugs for reasons that are not understood, leaving patients with limited treatment options. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-resistance-anti-estrogen-therapy-breast-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:25:39 EST news221153121