http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Red Cross is preparing to launch a new website to help reunite families ripped apart by conflicts and natural disasters all around the world, it said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-red-website-families-crises.html Health Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:29:37 EST news271949367 (Medical Xpress)—Researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London, in an attempt to prove or disprove the notion that some people have the ability to read the thoughts of others, set up a structured environment to test such abilities – but after inviting many well known British psychics to take part in the study, only two agreed to participate: Patricia Putt and Kim Whitton. After performing blind "readings" of five hidden volunteers each, the psychics produced just one reading that was identifiable to the volunteer. A rate the researchers described as a failure due to it being equal to chance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-psychics-abilities-academic.html Other Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:50:01 EST news270973995 (Medical Xpress)—A study conducted to learn more about mimicry of facial features has found that people tend to mimic smiles directed at them by other people based on their own feelings of status and power. The team, led by Evan Carr of the University of California presented its findings at this year's Society for Neuroscience conference in New Orleans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-people-based-status-power.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:00:01 EST news269674431 Adding more yogurt to your diet without increasing the number of calories you eat may help lower your risk of high blood pressure, according to new research presented at the American Heart Association's High Blood Pressure Research 2012 Scientific Sessions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-yogurt-consumption-blood-pressure-incident.html Cardiology Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:00:02 EST news267289101 (Medical Xpress)—Research at Sandia National Laboratories has shown that it's possible to predict how well people will remember information by monitoring their brain activity while they study.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-brain.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:29:55 EST news266516977 The Internet has already fundamentally changed the way that people communicate, shop, and even date, but now it is poised to revolutionize psychological studies by enabling researchers to quickly and easily recruit thousands of study volunteers from around the world, and by changing the way the public interacts with researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-psych-lab-online.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:10:01 EST news265884754 (Medical Xpress)—Eyewitness identification evidence is often persuasive in the courtroom and yet current eyewitness identification tests often fail to pick the culprit. Even worse, these tests sometimes result in wrongfully accusing innocent suspects. Now psychological scientists are proposing a radical alternative to the traditional police lineup that focuses on eyewitnesses' confidence judgments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-quick-decisions-witnesses-bad-guy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:31:08 EST news265379448 Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of a sentence, according to new research from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-message.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:56:34 EST news261651381 A team of global partners has tasked itself with the daunting challenge of bringing mobility to disabled children of developing nations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-aims-mobility-disabled-children-worldwide.html Health Tue, 22 May 2012 17:41:22 EST news256927272 There are many theories about why religion exists, most of them unproven. Now, in an article published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Kevin Rounding of Queen's University, Ontario, offers a new idea, and some preliminary evidence to back it up. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-religion-replenishes-self-control.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 14 May 2012 16:57:30 EST news256233435 (HealthDay) -- Using the amount and sun protection factor (SPF) of sunscreen recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is associated with little or no vitamin D production, suggesting that regular sunscreen use may lead to vitamin D deficiency, according to research published online April 18 in the British Journal of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-sunscreen-vitamin-d-deficiency.html Health Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:01 EST news254747382 (Medical Xpress) -- Experts from the University of Aberdeen's Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health are calling for volunteers to take part in a study into the potential health benefits of different varieties of the vegetable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-cabbage-key-diseases.html Health Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:40:30 EST news252747622 A district in Indonesia is handing out cash to civil servants who volunteer for vasectomies -- but the initiative has upset women who fear their sterilised husbands will be more likely to have affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-indonesian-district-cash-vasectomies.html Other Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:16:21 EST news252746164 Women who have just finished ovulating are better at detecting snakes than at other times of their menstrual cycle, according to an unusual study that sheds light on in-built reflexes for survival. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-hisss-women-snakes.html Other Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:09:35 EST news250441762 University of Southampton researchers are investigating innovative methods of testing drugs that will reduce the need for involving animals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-significantly-clinical-animal.html Immunology Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:07:53 EST news250412858 (Garrison, NY) Researchers almost always offer money as an incentive for healthy volunteers to enroll in research studies, but does payment amount to coercion or undue inducement to participate in research? In the first national study to examine their views on this question, the majority of institutional review board members and other research ethics professionals expressed persistent ethical concern about the effects of offering payment to research subjects. But they differed in their views of the meaning of coercion and undue influence and how to avoid these problems in concrete research situations. The study appears in IRB: Ethics & Human Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-volunteers-ethical.html Other Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:01:54 EST news249134509 (Medical Xpress) -- Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team's pass forward, their player offside, or their serve as a fault? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-believing.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:40:03 EST news247295408 (Medical Xpress) -- People often view the "last" moments of an event positively simply because they signal the end of an experience, say University of Michigan researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-theyre.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:51:49 EST news246693096 Skilled readers can recognize words at lightning fast speed when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary idea rebuts the theory that our brain "sounds out" words each time we see them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-skilled-readers-brain-visual-dictionary.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:07 EST news240491075 (Medical Xpress) -- Early detection of breast cancer saves thousands of lives each year. But screening for breast cancer also produces false alarms, which can cause undue stress and costly medical bills. Now, a recent study using patient blood reveals a possible way to reduce the number of false alarms that arise during early screening. Researchers found a panel of proteins shed by breast cancer that are easily detected and can distinguish between real cancer and benign lumps. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-singling-real-breast-cancer-lumps.html Cancer Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:11:37 EST news238752684 (AP) -- The country is awash in pink for breast cancer awareness month - and some women are sick of it. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-pinkwashing-breast-cancer-awareness.html Cancer Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:38:36 EST news237573506 An in-depth review of consent forms provided to volunteers for HIV/AIDS research in the United States and abroad about study procedures, risks and benefits has found that the forms were extremely long and used wording that may have been complex enough to hinder full understanding, according to bioethicists at The Johns Hopkins University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-informed-consent-shortened.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:40:11 EST news229942926 University of Reading researchers are looking for volunteers for a new study which will examine the effects of wholegrain cereals on the immune system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-wholegrain-foods-aid-immune.html Health Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:37:29 EST news227443038 (Medical Xpress) -- Dr. Beverly Thorn, chair of The University of Alabama's psychology department, is seeking volunteers for a key study into how "mindfulness meditation" can help manage chronic pain from headaches. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-ua-psychology-professor-relief-chronic.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 10 May 2011 08:30:01 EST news224234105