http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Patients coping with chronic pain should also be evaluated for anxiety disorders, according to new research published in General Hospital Psychiatry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-chronic-pain-anxiety.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 May 2013 07:26:36 EST news287821587 Continuous positive airway pressure is effective at increasing work productivity, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-cpap-productivity-apnea-patients.html Sleep apnea Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:00:02 EST news284831915 Hot flashes put a damper on women's health and productivity at work and pump up the cost of health care. A study published online this month in Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS), has put some numbers on their impact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-hot-toll-life-health.html Health Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:42:39 EST news280755748 (HealthDay)—For patients with moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic skin disease characterized by painful abscesses, nodules, and draining fistulas in the axilla and groin, treatment with once-weekly adalimumab is associated with improvements in pain and inflammation, according to a study published online Dec. 17 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-adalimumab-relieves-hidradenitis-suppurativa.html Inflammatory disorders Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:07:14 EST news275076428 Patients with voice problems have nearly as many days of short-term disability claim and work productivity losses as those with chronic conditions like asthma, heart disease and depression, according to new findings from Duke University Medical Center researchers. Per claim, voice disorders account for up to 40 lost workdays and about $3,400 in short-term disability payments annually. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-voice-disorder-productivity-losses-chronic.html Health Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:47:07 EST news253968421 January 11, 2012 - (Toronto) - A new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found that employees with depression who receive treatment while still working are significantly more likely to be highly productive than those who do not. This is the first study of its kind to look into a possible correlation between treatment and productivity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-treatment-depression-productivity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:27:28 EST news245500035 Binge eating is a disorder which affects both men and women, yet men remain underrepresented in research. A new study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders has found that the medical impact of the disorder is just as damaging to men as it is to women, yet research has shown that the number of men seeking treatment is far lower than the estimated number of sufferers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-underrepresented-men-binge.html Health Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:28:06 EST news238814872 (AP) -- The toll of excessive drinking works out to about $2 per drink, in terms of medical expenses and other costs to society, according to a new federal research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-cdc-shot-excessive.html Health Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:06:32 EST news238075585 While more Americans are working past age 65 by choice, a growing segment of the population must continue to work well into their sixties out of financial necessity. Research conducted by the Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine looked at aging, social class and labor force participation rates to illustrate the challenges that lower income workers face in the global marketplace. The study used the burden of arthritis to examine these connections because 49 million U.S. adults have arthritis, and 21 million suffer activity limitations as a result. The condition is also relatively disabling and painful but not fatal. The researchers found that blue collar workers are much more likely to work past 65 than white collar workers and are much more likely to suffer from conditions like arthritis, reducing their quality of life and work productivity. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-blue-collar-workers-longer-worse.html Health Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:24:13 EST news230484243 In an evaluation of contemporary antireflux therapies for chronic gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), most patients who received treatment with either the proton pump inhibitor esomeprazole or laparoscopic antireflux surgery achieved and remained in disease remission for 5 years, according to a study in the May 18 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-modern-treatments-gerd-effective-long-term.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 17 May 2011 16:49:43 EST news224869760