http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Parents whose children move far away from home are less likely to become depressed than parents with children living nearby, according to a new study of rural districts in Thailand. The study, led by scientists at King's College London, suggests that children who migrate to urban areas are more likely to financially support their parents, which may be a factor for lower levels of depression. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-emigration-children-urban-areas-parents.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:00:26 EST news273757721 (HealthDay)—The stress of readjusting to civilian life is a major reason some U.S. soldiers seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-vets-readjustment-issues-spur-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:50:01 EST news266149815 In their August editorial, the PLOS Medicine Editors reflect on a recent Policy Forum article by Jason Corburn and Alison Cohen, which describes the need for urban health equity indicators to guide public health policy in cities and urban areas. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-air-quality-indicators-world-cities.html Health Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:00:04 EST news265374693 Urban areas that are segregated by race, ethnicity or income have more Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), which provide primary care services for disadvantaged populations, despite an adequate supply of private sector physicians, according to new findings published in Health Services Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-safety-net-health-centers-urban.html Health Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:51:45 EST news261906697 (HealthDay) -- People who shop at lower-cost supermarkets are more likely to be obese than those who shop at higher-priced stores, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-discount-supermarkets-tied-obesity.html Health Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:20:02 EST news259348394 (HealthDay) -- Urban areas contaminated decades ago by airborne lead dust now face an increased incidence of aggravated assault, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-gas-exposure-linked-violence.html Health Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:30:20 EST news254593791 (Medical Xpress) -- When it comes to offering healthy food in the local corner store, supply can impact demand, according to a study by University of Connecticut researchers. The study, published in the journal Public Health Nutrition, found that when corner stores stocked a wider variety of fruits and vegetables, customers were more likely to buy them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-stock.html Health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:30:01 EST news248428027 (Medical Xpress) -- Normally used to spot where people live, satellite images of nighttime lights can help keep tabs on the diseases festering among them, too, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-nighttime-images-track-disease-sky.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:01:36 EST news242578879 World citizen number 7 billion is less likely to die from infectious diseases like measles or even AIDS, and more likely to contract diabetes or other non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as they are now the leading causes of deaths globally. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-diabetes-world-billion-people.html Health Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:46:21 EST news240486372 Between 2009 and 2010, one million more children in America joined the ranks of those living in poverty, bringing the total to an estimated 15.7 million poor children in 2010, an increase of 2.6 million since the recession began in 2007, according to researchers from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-million-children-poverty-census-today.html Health Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:19:03 EST news235923506 The deployment of speed cameras in urban areas saves vast amounts of money as well as lives, reveals a two year financial analysis, published online in Injury Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-cameras-urban-areas-millions-cash.html Health Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:20:01 EST news231040847 Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-air-pollution-linked-memory-problems.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:09:29 EST news229079323 The children most likely to walk or cycle to school live in urban areas, with a single parent, and in an economically disadvantaged home, according to survey results that were published in Pediatrics today by Dr. Roman Pabayo of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre and the university's Department of Social and preventive medicine. Pabayo's study is unique in that it follows the same group of children as they age throughout the school years, and it shows that children increasingly use "active transport" to travel to school until they reach ten or eleven years of age, at which point the trend then reverses. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-urban-children-healthier-commuters-rural.html Health Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:52:59 EST news228966759