http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Lowering the costs of healthy foods in supermarkets increases the amount of fruits, vegetables and whole grain foods that people eat, while also appearing to reduce consumption of nutritionally less-desirable foods, according to research from the RAND Corporation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-discounts-healthy-foods-diets.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:01 EST news282829349 An overwhelming majority of Albertans believe dying adults should have the right to request to end their life, according to new research from the University of Alberta. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-majority-albertans-suicide.html Other Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:32:07 EST news281881921 Medicare patients who enrolled in hospice received better care at a significantly lower cost to the government than those who did not use the Medicare hospice benefit. The data indicate that annual savings to Medicare could amount to $2.4 million to $6.4 million, if 1,000 additional Medicare beneficiaries chose to enroll in hospice 53-105 days before death, or 15-30 days prior to death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-medicare-patients-hospice.html Health Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:00:07 EST news281616163 Children who are bullied online or by mobile phone are just as likely to skip school or consider suicide as kids who are physically bullied, according to a study led by a Michigan State University criminologist. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-online-bullying.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:50:21 EST news279798608 Obesity kills, giving rise to a host of fatal diseases. This much is well known. But when it comes to seniors, a slew of prominent research has reported an "obesity paradox" that says, at age 65 and older, having an elevated BMI won't shorten your lifespan, and may even extend it. A new study takes another look at the numbers, finding the earlier research flawed. The paradox was a mirage: As obese Americans grow older, in fact, their risk of death climbs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-age-obesity-death.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:20:44 EST news279289238 (Medical Xpress)—With New Year's resolutions upon us, new research from the University of Alberta offers encouragement for parents who want to achieve fitness for the whole family. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-parents-big-kids-physical.html Health Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:11:00 EST news277366243 A survey highlighting the correlation between today's cutting edge medical research and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding was released today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the preeminent medical meeting for physicians and scientists in hematology that draws more than 20,000 attendees from around the world. The survey, representing responses from 1,040 abstract presenters from the U.S. and abroad, demonstrates how critical NIH funding has been to the success of science and medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-survey-breakthrough-medical-heavily-nih.html Other Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:11:47 EST news274356689 Researchers from UCL have found that cycling is safer than driving for young males, with 17 to 20 year old drivers facing almost five times greater risk per hour than cyclists of the same age. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-safer-young-people.html Health Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:00:19 EST news273930113 A new study from the Mailman School of Public Health suggests that African-American and Mexican-American seniors are less likely to have cancer or heart disease if they live in an ethnically homogeneous community. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-strong-ethnic-neighborhoods-boost-health.html Health Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:50:03 EST news272622358 An African-American or Mexican-American senior living in a community where many neighbors share their background is less likely to have cancer or heart disease than their counterpart in a more mixed neighborhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-ethnically-homogenous-area-boosts-health.html Health Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:00:04 EST news269786444 (HealthDay)—Wider use of hospital observation units could save the U.S. health care system billions of dollars a year, a new study indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-hospital-billions-health.html Health Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:30:01 EST news267987643 A sizeable and "difficult to ignore" proportion of New Zealand children have experienced persistent low income and deprivation in recent years, according to a new University of Otago study using seven years of longitudinal survey data. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-reveals-persistent-deprivation-zealand-children.html Health Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:44:37 EST news267428659 (Medical Xpress)—A child is desperately ill, and a family faces a stark choice: Should they try to save the child's life with therapeutic treatments, or ease the pain through hospice and other pain-relief services? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-small-mercies-children-life-threatening-conditions.html Health Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:41:41 EST news265538464 The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy's (ASGE) Preservation and Incorporation of Valuable Endoscopic Innovations (PIVI) initiative examines real-time imaging of Barrett's esophagus in an article appearing in the August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, ASGE's monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. This PIVI is one in a series of statements defining the diagnostic or therapeutic threshold that must be met for a technique or device to become considered appropriate for incorporation into clinical practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-asge-real-time-imaging-barrett-esophagus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:06:06 EST news265302335 Reducing television viewing may be an effective strategy to prevent excess weight gain among adolescents, according to a new study released in the September/October 2012 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-limiting-tv-timeeffective-strategy-weight.html Health Mon, 27 Aug 2012 12:06:46 EST news265288000 Just over two percent of teens in rural schools who have ever tried alcohol, marijuana or other drugs report they have also traded sex for these substances, according to University of British Columbia research published today in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-students-sex-drugs-alcohol-rural.html Health Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:08:59 EST news263056127 Young males who have been sexually abused are five times more likely to cause teen pregnancy compared to those with no abuse history, according to University of British Columbia research. Sexually abused boys are also three times more likely to have multiple sexual partners and twice as likely to engage in unprotected sex. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-sexually-abused-boys-unsafe-sex.html Health Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:35:37 EST news252761724 (HealthDay) -- Most California hospitals implement some policies to improve infection control for multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO), primarily methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), but few policies are associated with lower MDRO rates, according to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-california-hospitals-infection.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:10:14 EST news251183404 Only about one in five young adults in their late 30s received a flu shot during the 2009-2010 swine flu epidemic, according to a University of Michigan report that details the behavior and attitudes of Generation X. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-young-adults-influenza.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:06:01 EST news246596753 However, large-scale clinical trials have highlighted the beneficial effect of cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in the improvement of symptoms and reduction of mortality, and CRT is now recommended in the major European and American guidelines for the treatment and prevention of heart failure.(1) http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-benefits-cardiac-resynchronisation-therapy-heart.html Cardiology Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:10:01 EST news243492604 A new analysis of national survey data finds that less than one-quarter of parents of overweight children recall ever being told by a doctor or other health care provider that their children were overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-parents-recall-told-doctors-child.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:31:08 EST news242325062 Bisexual women are more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from depression and stress and to binge-drink, according to a new national study led by George Mason University researcher Lisa Lindley. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-bisexual-women-men-depressed-abuse.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:38:23 EST news239967483 Ethnic differences in appointment keeping may be an important factor in poor health outcomes among some minority patients with diabetes, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ethnic-differences-affect-health-diabetes.html Health Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:50:01 EST news238922051 People with frequent mental distress are markedly more likely that than those with frequent physical distress to lack health insurance, according to research appearing the October issue of Psychiatric Services, a journal of the American Psychiatric Association. Uninsured adults have less access to recommended care, receive poorer quality care, and experience worse health outcomes than insured adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-people-experiencing-mental-distress-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:50:38 EST news236947777