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(HealthDay)—Among patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), sex and age at presentation affect the response to ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA), according to a study published in the March issue of Gastroenterology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sex-age-affect-cirrhosis-response.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:00:01 EST news283843631 (HealthDay)—Middle-aged people with type 2 diabetes, particularly women and those under the age of 55, have a two to three times higher risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality than people without diabetes, according to research published online Feb. 22 in Diabetes Care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-higher-mortality-middle-aged-diabetes-patients.html Diabetes Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:30:01 EST news283430223 It's about to get difficult finding a can of regular Sprite in the United Kingdom. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-coca-cola-sweetener-uk-sprite.html Health Wed, 06 Mar 2013 11:34:34 EST news281792068 (HealthDay)—The financial burden of caring for patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) in the United Kingdom is twice that of caring for patients without CLBP, according to a study published in the Jan. 1 issue of Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-pain-uk-substantial.html Health Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:50:01 EST news276442371 Mothers who stroke their newborn infants in the first few weeks of their life could change the effects that stress during gestation has on early-life development, new research from the United Kingdom shows. Increasing maternal depression has been linked with decreasing physiological adaptability and with increasing negative emotionality when mothers do not stroke their babies enough. The study, recently presented in the journal PLOS ONE, could help increase our understanding of this issue and in turn provide better information services for pregnant women and their partners. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-importance-mother.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:00:01 EST news271934872 (HealthDay)—The risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in postmenopausal women differs considerably according to the formulation of hormone therapy (HT) used, with the highest VTE risk seen in users of oral estrogen-progestin HT containing medroxyprogesterone acetate, according to research published online Sept. 10 in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-vte-varies-hormone-therapy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:08:31 EST news267192498 The United States lags three other industrialized nations—France, Germany, and the United Kingdom—in its potentially preventable death rate, and in the pace of improvement in preventing deaths that could have been avoided with timely and effective health care, according to a Commonwealth Fund–supported study published as a web first online today in Health Affairs. Between 1999 and 2006/2007, the overall potentially preventable death rate among men ages 0 to 74 dropped by only 18.5 percent in the United States, while the rate declined by nearly 37 percent in the U.K. For women, the rate fell by 17.5 percent in the U.S. but by nearly 32 percent in the U.K. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-worst-potentially-death-france-germany.html Health Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:43:40 EST news265477410 (HealthDay) -- In low- and middle-income developing countries, socioeconomic status (SES) plays an important role in the development of obesity, particularly in women, according to research published online July 5 in Obesity Reviews. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-obesity-linked-economic-status-countries.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:20:01 EST news261849911 (HealthDay) -- The incidence of rosacea in the United Kingdom is 1.65 per 1,000 person-years, with alcohol consumption linked to a modest increase in risk and current smoking linked to an decreased risk, according to a study published online May 5 in the British Journal of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-epidemiology-rosacea-kingdom.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 21 May 2012 04:40:01 EST news256791790 Researchers from Norway and the United Kingdom have developed a new instrument to measure work addiction: The Bergen Work Addiction Scale. The new instrument is based on core elements of addiction that are recognised as diagnostic criteria for several addictions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-method-addiction.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:04:30 EST news254419431 (HealthDay) -- There is limited evidence that the school environment impacts adolescent mental health, according to a review published online April 2 in Pediatrics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-school-environment-effect-teen-mental.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:40:01 EST news252644612 Researchers from Canterbury Christ Church University have found that smokers are more likely to stop because of anti-social attitudes towards them than from fear of ill-health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-social-smokers.html Health Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:20:26 EST news251011214 The introduction of national, comprehensive smoke-free legislation in Scotland is linked with significant falls in preterm delivery and small for dates (gestational age) infants according to a study led by Jill Pell from the University of Glasgow and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-scotland-linked-fall-preterm-deliveries.html Health Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:00:07 EST news250274254 Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues from 11 other institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom have used two genome-wide association studies (GWAS) – one from the U.S. and one from the U.K. – to detect a novel set of genes found to be associated with epithelial ovarian cancer patient survival. The discovery could open the door to new therapies for treating epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), the most lethal kind of gynecologic malignancy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-genetic-keys-surviving-epithelial-ovarian.html Cancer Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:17:52 EST news250255050 (HealthDay) -- There is an increase in both the prevalence and levels of islet antigen-2 and zinc transporter 8, as well as in autoantibodies, in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes patients during a period of rising disease incidence, according to a study published in the March issue of Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-shift-islet-antibody-positivity-diabetes.html Diabetes Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:20:01 EST news249914555 Patients suffering from a devastating disease are being given fresh hope through an innovative trial being led by the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-major-trial-motor-neurone-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:21:29 EST news248016046 (PhysOrg.com) -- In what is rapidly turning into a political debate in the United Kingdom, members of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) have, after careful review, declined to allow legislation to be introduced that would allow what has become known as three-parent in vitro fertilization, to become legal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-uk-health-three-parent-ivf-procedure.html Medical research Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:08:01 EST news222512867