http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In the first study of its kind, researchers at the Columbia University School of Nursing have established that poor health literacy among Latino parents is associated with a poor understanding of the proper use antibiotics, particularly for upper respiratory infections (URIs), which can lead to an increase in antimicrobial resistance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-parental-misconceptions-antibiotics-linked-poor.html Medications Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:56:06 EST news279190443 Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that a virus commonly found in dogs may serve as the foundation for the next great breakthrough in human vaccine development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-friend-common-canine-virus-vaccines.html Medical research Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:46:16 EST news273239120 It's cold and flu season. But taking antibiotics for cold and flu viruses won't make children and adults feel better or help them get back to school or work faster. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-physicians-patients-smart-antibiotics.html Medications Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:28:04 EST news272273240 College students are notoriously sleep-deprived, live in close quarters and lead stress-filled lives, making them especially susceptible for contracting colds and upper-respiratory infections. For these reasons, a team lead by researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey–School of Health Related Professions (UMDNJ–SHRP) selected this population to study the effects of probiotic supplementation on health-related quality of life (HRQL) during the common cold. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-probiotics-secret-weapon-symptoms-common.html Health Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:05:17 EST news270291733 The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-doctors-digital-higher-quality-healthcare.html Health Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:10:00 EST news269698183 Common infections in children pose a high risk of ischemic stroke, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-infections-childhood-linked-high-ischemic.html Cardiology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:47:46 EST news247312039 Children without symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux whose asthma was being poorly controlled with anti-inflammatory treatment did not have an improvement in symptoms or lung function with the added treatment of the proton pump inhibitor lansoprazole, compared to patients who received placebo, according to a study in the January 25 issue of JAMA. Use of lansoprazole was associated with increased adverse events. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-acid-reflux-drug-asthma-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:00:05 EST news246642754 (AP) -- The push to get pediatricians to stop prescribing antibiotics for the wrong illnesses is paying off a bit, a new government report found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cdc-doctors-antibiotics-kids.html Medications Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:09:46 EST news234111560 Many amateur athletes have long suspected what research scientists for the Department of Preventative and Rehabilitative Sports Medicine of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen at Klinikum rechts der Isar have now made official: Documented proof, gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, "Be-MaGIC" (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system), that the consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health. Under the direction of Dr. Johannes Scherr, physicians examined 277 test subjects three weeks before and two weeks after the 2009 Munich Marathon. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-sport-doctors-non-alcoholic-wheat-beer.html Health Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:46:33 EST news226838769