http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study led by University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers is the first to identify a genetic risk factor for persistent pain after traumatic events such as motor vehicle collision and sexual assault. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-persistent-pain-stressful-events-neurobiological.html Medical research Thu, 02 May 2013 13:37:35 EST news286720647 (Medical Xpress)—Overworked and stressed out? Look on the bright side. Some stress is good for you. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-stress-good-acute-primes-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:43:16 EST news285349356 Pregnant women who experienced financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery had an increased chance of having a stillbirth, say researchers who conducted a National Institutes of Health network study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-stressful-life-events-stillbirth.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:51:52 EST news283603872 (HealthDay)—Stressful events, including hurricanes, earthquakes, and financial crises, correlate with increased incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to three studies to be presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology, held from March 9 to 11 in San Francisco. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-acc-stressful-events-incidence-acute.html Cardiology Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:00:01 EST news281977768 The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is co-funding an affordable, hi-tech, solution for managing stress that could help prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), helping warfighters and potentially saving billions of dollars in associated medical costs, officials announced March 6. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-navy-ipad-app-stress-fending.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:22:55 EST news281884925 A five-year study by researchers at three universities has established that providing tangible assistance to others protects our health and lengthens our lives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-healthier.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:35:41 EST news279221733 In an airplane crisis—an engine failure, a fire—pilots pull out a checklist to help with their decision-making. But in an operating room crisis—massive bleeding, a patient's heart stops—surgical teams don't. Given the complexity of judgment and circumstances, standard practice is for teams to use memory alone. In a new study published in the January 17 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, however, researchers at Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health system innovation at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health, have found that teams using checklists have markedly better safety performance. Specifically, the research shows that clinicians provided with checklists in a novel study using advanced simulation of surgical crises were three-fourths less likely to miss key life-saving steps in care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-checklists-rooms-crises.html Surgery Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:00:09 EST news277577641 (Medical Xpress)—It's the season of joy, peace and goodwill, but it's also the time of year that brings a spike in heart attacks with most occurring on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-heart-healthy-holiday.html Cardiology Fri, 21 Dec 2012 07:20:08 EST news275296152 Low-income teenagers who have supportive role models and engage in adaptive strategies have lower levels of a marker for cardiovascular risk than low-income teens without such resources, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-role-coping-health-poor-teens.html Health Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:07 EST news275163960 The psychological scars of childhood abuse can last well into adulthood. New research from Concordia University shows the harm can have longterm negative physical effects, as well as emotional ones. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-childhood-abuse-poor-adult-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:01:33 EST news272034086 (Medical Xpress)—Contrary to popular perception, stressors don't cause health problems—it's people's reactions to the stressors that determine whether they will suffer health consequences, according to researchers at Penn State. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-reactions-everyday-stressors-future-health.html Health Fri, 02 Nov 2012 17:51:24 EST news271097474 (HealthDay)—The amount and severity of pain that you experience after an automobile accident may depend on your genes, early new research suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-pain-car-genes.html Medical research Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:27:23 EST news269620037 Researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School have for the first time identified the mechanism that protects us from developing uncontrollable fear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-breakthrough-trauma.html Neuroscience Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:31:09 EST news268651863 Just grin and bear it! At some point, we have all probably heard or thought something like this when facing a tough situation. But is there any truth to this piece of advice? Feeling good usually makes us smile, but does it work the other way around? Can smiling actually make us feel better? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-stress-recovery.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:50:59 EST news262878642 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of California have found that negative social interactions can cause internal inflammation that may over time lead to possible health consequences. In the study, the results of which the team has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team writes that stressful events can lead to increased production of cytokines, molecules that are produced when inflammation occurs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-negative-social-interactions-amounts-internal.html Medical research Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:50:05 EST news246610186 The use of anti-depressant drugs in England has soared by 28 percent in the past three years, coinciding with the country's fall into recession and the global economic crisis, new figures showed Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-anti-depressant-soars-england-linked-recession.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 30 Dec 2011 06:27:43 EST news244448852 The discovery of a mechanism in the brain explains for the first time why people make particularly strong, long-lasting memories of stressful events in their lives and could help sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-people-post-traumatic-stress-disorder.html Medical research Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:50:01 EST news231431851 Just like everyone else, people with panic disorder have real stress in their lives. They get laid off and they fight with their spouses. How such stresses affect their panic symptoms hasn't been well understood, but a new study by researchers at Brown University presents the counterintuitive finding that certain kinds of stressful life events cause panic symptoms to increase gradually over succeeding months, rather than to spike immediately. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-panic-symptoms-steadily-acutely-stressful.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:56:34 EST news227804111