http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. It is often assumed that those on low incomes and with low levels of education are overly represented in the major increase in obesity of recent decades. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-obesity-epidemic-threatens-health-social.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:37:30 EST news271939039 Teenagers and university students are unaware of the negative consequences of alcohol consumption or the chances of developing an addiction as a result. In addition, they start at a younger and younger age and drink more and stronger alcohol according to a study headed by the University of Valencia. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-young-people-earlier-consume-alcohol.html Addiction Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:46:50 EST news269862403 In a University of Missouri study, girls and boys started grade school with different approaches to solving arithmetic problems, with girls favoring a slow and accurate approach and boys a faster but more error prone approach. Girls' approach gave them an early advantage, but by the end of sixth grade boys had surpassed the girls. The MU study found that boys showed more preference for solving arithmetic problems by reciting an answer from memory, whereas girls were more likely to compute the answer by counting. Understanding these results may help teachers and parents guide students better. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-boys-impulsiveness-result-math-ability.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:02:33 EST news262605745 USC Marshall study finds video capture and other automated systems cut down medical errors and minimize the tendency to operate outside normal procedures. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-medical-practitioners.html Other Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:31:01 EST news251541055 An outbreak of A(H1N1) swine flu claimed the lives of two people -- 19 and 21 years old -- in Mexico's capital in the first weeks of the year, health authorities said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-die-ah1n1-swine-flu-mexico.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:16:51 EST news246453391 A new study supports previous findings that children delivered by cesarean section have an increased risk of developing asthma. The study from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) suggests that children delivered by cesarean section have an increased risk of asthma at the age of three. This was particularly seen among children without a hereditary tendency to asthma and allergies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-asthma-age-cesarean-section.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:31:41 EST news245413890 Pancreatic cancer is a particularly challenging one to beat; it has a tendency to spread and harbors cancer stem cells that stubbornly resist conventional approaches to therapy. Now, researchers reporting in the November issue of Cell Stem Cell, a Cell Press publication, have evidence to suggest there is a way to kill off those cancer stem cells. The target is a self-renewal pathway known for its role not in cancer but in embryonic stem cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-embryonic-pancreatic-cancer.html Cancer Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:27:43 EST news239542056 Statins can be effective at lowering cholesterol, but they have a perplexing tendency to work for some people and not others. Gut bacteria may be the reason. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-gut-bacteria-affect-statin-drug.html Medical research Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:00:04 EST news237733100