http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. US war veterans on Monday suggested meditation to help heal the post-war mental disturbances that afflict a growing number of American soldiers, including possibly the ex-Marine who gunned down the country's most famous sniper over the weekend. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-war-veterans-meditation-ptsd.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:00:03 EST news279261575 (AP)—The head of the House panel that oversees veterans' issues says patients who have trouble getting timely mental health care from Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics should have another option: access to the thousands of health care providers who care for military personnel and their families. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lawmaker-va-mental-gap.html Health Tue, 29 Jan 2013 04:27:13 EST news278656019 (AP)—Authorities are asking why a Buffalo veterans hospital may have reused insulin pens on many patients, causing an HIV scare, despite federal advice to the contrary. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-feds-buffalo-va.html Health Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:38:30 EST news277403902 (HealthDay)—Even within an integrated Veterans Affairs (VA) system with a uniform national formulary and established criteria for drug use, there is substantial variation in the use of thiazolidinediones and long-acting insulin analogues among veterans with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), according to a research letter published online Oct. 8 in the Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-costly-diabetes-medications-varies-widely.html Diabetes Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:00:04 EST news269256871 Multidrug-resistant pathogens are becoming more frequent, and the few "last resort" treatments available for infections with these bacteria have also shown an increase in use in recent years, according to a study published May 16 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-resort-antibiotics-increasingly-multidrug-resistant-bugs.html Medications Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:15 EST news256405963 A team of academic researchers has identified the intracellular mechanisms regulated by vitamin D3 that may help the body clear the brain of amyloid beta, the main component of plaques associated with Alzheimer's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-scientists-vitamin-d-amyloid-plaques.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:01:19 EST news250261269 (Medical Xpress) -- Veterans Affairs hospitals screen elderly men with limited life expectancies for prostate cancer at surprisingly high rates, even though guidelines recommend against such screening, according to a study led by a physician at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-prostate-cancer-screenings-va-hospitals.html Cancer Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:10:12 EST news245495402 Although personal health records are now securely accessible online to a large and growing number of individuals, little research has been conducted on opinions about their ease of use. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-personal-health-usable.html Health Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:58:24 EST news244983491 Wealth, population size, race and age associate with the supply of hospice care available in a county, according to a study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management this month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-hospice-strongly-local-area-median.html Health Mon, 09 May 2011 13:09:52 EST news224165354