http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Obesity has become a global pandemic that could leave more than half of all adults worldwide overweight within two decades, experts said, calling for urgent action beyond just blaming people for lacking willpower. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-experts-urge-action-global-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:10:01 EST news278502733 (AP)—The U.N.'s top population official wants governments to do more to ensure that women have access to family planning. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-ap-family.html Health Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:50:41 EST news278272234 With the rising awareness of the so-called "superbugs," bacteria that are resistant to most known antibiotics, three infectious disease experts writing in the Jan. 24 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine called for novel approaches based on a "reconceptualization of the nature of resistance, disease and prevention." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-approaches-scourge-superbugs.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:30:17 EST news278184610 The World Economic Forum will focus on global health issues when it holds its annual winter meeting in Davos, Switzerland from January 23-27, Forum organisers said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-davos-focus-health-issues.html Health Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:47:33 EST news276436047 Men and women clearly have different strategies for picking sexual partners, but the reason why differences exist is less clear. The classic explanation for these differences has been that men's and women's brains have evolved to make certain choices, but a new study in Psychological Science, a publication of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that evolution is only part of the answer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-gender-equality-people-partners.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:41:08 EST news266067656 (AP) -- Bill Gates pledged $750 million on Thursday to fight three killer diseases and rescue a beleaguered health fund whose financial losses have cost it donor support. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-gates-750m-global-fund.html Other Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:50:03 EST news246796491