http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A researcher at the University of Southampton, working as part of a team from the UK and USA, believes the global eradication of malaria could be achieved by individual countries eliminating the disease within their own borders and coordinating efforts regionally. The team's findings have been published in the journal Science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-malaria-defeated-globally-eradication.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:28:24 EST news281103994 (Medical Xpress)—Rapid growth of large cities throughout the world is having enormous impact on traffic safety in urban areas, say researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-road-safety-megacities-bikers-pedestrians.html Health Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:50:01 EST news279441598 Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science and Society pieces published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Genetics suggests that we are losing our intellectual and emotional capabilities because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these mutations are not being selected against in our modern society. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html Genetics Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:00:04 EST news271942686