http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A retrospective study of patients who had in-hospital electroencephalography (EEG) has established that EEG is a valuable tool that could be deployed more widely to identify treatable causes of impaired consciousness in the hospital setting. The study is published in the April issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-electroencephalography-underused-tool-hospitals.html Neuroscience Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:24:08 EST news284037840 Researchers used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from a young patient with Long QT syndrome (LQTS), a congenital heart disorder, to determine a course of treatment that helped manage the patient's life-threatening arrhythmias. The results, which appear in The Journal of General Physiology, could lead to improved treatments for LQTS and other channelopathies, diseases caused by disturbed ion channel function. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-ipscs-optimal-treatment-life-threatening-arrhythmias.html Cardiology Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:18:05 EST news277129079 Bariatric surgery, which significantly curtails the amount of food a person can eat, is the most effective treatment against obesity and is being recognized as a potentially valuable tool in the fight against diabetes related to obesity. It is being performed on increasing numbers of people worldwide, including teenagers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bariatric-surgery-bones.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:45:20 EST news271071906 Two studies by neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center suggest that, in the future, colonic tissue obtained during either colonoscopy or flexible sigmoidoscopy may be used to predict who will develop Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder of aging that that leads to progressive deterioration of motor function due to loss of neurons in the brain that produce dopamine, a neurotransmitter essential to executing movement. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-colonoscopy-flexible-sigmoidoscopy-parkinson.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:01 EST news256299941 Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons on demand, in the laboratory. The crucial element in their strategy is a chemical sensor that acts as a light-sensitive switch. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-pain-chemists-light-controlled-neural-inhibitor.html Medical research Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:10:02 EST news249125900 A team of researchers from Spain and Switzerland have developed a new model for studying the development of testicular germ cell tumors by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous tubules in mouse models, resulting in the development of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) that mimic the early stages of TGCT development. The study, published in Cell Transplantation (20:5), is now freely available on-line. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-germ-cell-tumors-embryonic-stem.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:14:41 EST news229605253