http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Men newly diagnosed with prostate cancer have an increased risk of cardiovascular events and suicide, reports a new study in this week's PLoS Medicine. Katja Falland Fang Fang from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden and their colleagues found that the relative risks of cardiovascular events and suicide were elevated during the first year after prostate cancer diagnosis, particularly during the first week. http://www.physorg.com/news180097833.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:11:38 EST news180097833 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Jonna Mazet (University of California, Davis) and colleagues describe their work in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the "One Health" approach to address emerging zoonoses, recognizing the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. http://www.physorg.com/news180087890.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:25:17 EST news180087890 Influenza is circulating in Africa, but virtually no information or attention is evident, says a new essay in this week's PLoS Medicine. Maria Yazdanbakhsh and Peter Kremsner argue that the lack of adequate surveillance means that the burden of influenza in Africa is incorrectly believed to be negligible. But sporadic reports from various regions in Africa indicate that influenza is circulating and may be regularly causing epidemics. http://www.physorg.com/news180087720.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:22:46 EST news180087720 In this week's PLoS Medicine, the journal's editors call for concerted international action to address the crisis of malaria drug shortages across Africa. http://www.physorg.com/news178265238.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:20:02 EST news178265238 eHealth -- the organisation and delivery of health services and information using information technology (IT) systems -is playing an increasingly important role in shaping health care systems. This week PLoS Medicine publishes the third in a series of articles evaluating eHealth. Richard Lilford and colleagues consider the evaluation of health IT systems as they are employed following pre-implementation testing. http://www.physorg.com/news178264007.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:47:42 EST news178264007 Among postmenopausal women, the risk of hip fractures increases steeply with age and is seven times higher in 70-year olds than in 50- year olds, according to a study in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news177058770.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:10:05 EST news177058770 In the latest article in PLoS Medicine's series proposing the delivery of "packages of care" for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Vivek Benegal and colleagues discuss the treatment of alcohol use disorders in settings where resources are limited. "Packages of care" are combinations of treatments aimed at improving the recognition and management of conditions to achieve optimal outcomes. http://www.physorg.com/news175842850.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:02 EST news175842850 In a clinical trial investigating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa published this week in PLoS Medicine, Neil Martinson (of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto, South Africa) and colleagues find that adding two other antiretroviral drugs to single dose nevirapine - an antiretroviral drug given to women and newborn children during labor and delivery to prevent transmission - is effective in reducing the drug resistance that nevirapine causes when used by itself. http://www.physorg.com/news175808373.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:50:02 EST news175808373 Given sufficient training and support, nurses can safely and effectively prescribe antiretroviral therapy (ART) to patients with HIV, according to a Rwandan study published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news174633906.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:50:02 EST news174633906 A team of scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, USA, says that studying pet dogs with cancer could yield valuable information on how to diagnose and treat human cancers. In this week's PLoS Medicine, the team discusses an ongoing initiative in which spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are being studied to help inform the development of new cancer drugs, devices and imaging strategies for human cancer patients. http://www.physorg.com/news174634146.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:41:23 EST news174634146 A study examining how the South African criminal justice system handles cases of rape shows an association between the medical documentation of ano-genital injuries, the commencement of trials, and convictions in rape cases. The study, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine this week, is believed to be the first investigation to show these findings in a developing country. http://www.physorg.com/news174633670.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:40:03 EST news174633670 New findings reveal a large gap between US and UK researchers in terms of policy, attitudes, practices and experiences in relation to including ethnic minorities in asthma research. The study, published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, shows that US researchers were more positive than their UK counterparts about the importance and logistics of including ethnic minorities in health research. http://www.physorg.com/news174633754.html Medicine & Health Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:23:08 EST news174633754 In an editorial published this week, the PLoS Medicine editors discuss how to maintain the integrity of the medical literature when publishing comparative effectiveness research (CER). http://www.physorg.com/news173420946.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:00:04 EST news173420946 In this week's PLoS Medicine, Liza Dawson (National Institutes of Health) and colleagues discuss the scientific and ethical issues associated with choosing clinical trial designs when there is no consensus on what constitutes usual care. http://www.physorg.com/news173419133.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:59:22 EST news173419133 Research published this week in the open access journal, PLoS Medicine, suggests that there is an association between thiazolidinediones - a type of drug introduced in the 1990s to treat type 2 diabetes - and bone fracture. http://www.physorg.com/news173419065.html Medicine & Health Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:58:06 EST news173419065 Premature births have increased significantly although survival rates of babies born early have improved dramatically, a study shows. http://www.physorg.com/news172818868.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:20:03 EST news172818868 Research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that the rising rate of preterm birth in Scotland is as much a result of an increase in spontaneous preterm birth as it is of preterm birth that is medically-induced to avoid risking the lives of the mother and child. The results emphasize that preterm birth, which remains the single biggest cause of infant death in many developed countries, continues to be a major obstetric and neonatal problem despite the reductions that there have been in stillbirths and perinatal deaths as a result of improved maternal medical care. http://www.physorg.com/news172818376.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:08:48 EST news172818376 International guidelines for treating tuberculosis are due for specific improvements, according to two research papers published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news172215037.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:31:01 EST news172215037 Decreases in birth and death rates explain the shift in age distribution of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Thailand, according to a new paper in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news170999855.html Medicine & Health Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:10:01 EST news170999855 Communication in healthcare: how can clinicians help patients make decisions consistent with their values? http://www.physorg.com/news170397099.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:00:01 EST news170397099 A Policy Forum published in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine argues that twenty-five years of health care reforms in Mexico have increased insurance coverage but have not resulted in greater efficiency and have not significantly reduced health inequities despite their costs in a country that has huge divisions between the rich and the poor. http://www.physorg.com/news169791624.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:50:01 EST news169791624 Severe breathing disorders during sleep are associated with an increased risk of dying from any cause according to research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. The study finds that the increased risk of dying is most apparent in men between 40 and 70 years of age with severe sleep-disordered breathing, and suggests a specific link between this condition and death from coronary heart disease in men. http://www.physorg.com/news169754530.html Medicine & Health Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:20:03 EST news169754530 Identification of criteria for the detection of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) appear able to identify bereaved persons at heightened risk for enduring distress and dysfunction, says a new study in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. The results support the psychometric validity of the criteria for PGD and should be included in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-V) and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11), say the authors. http://www.physorg.com/news168598077.html Medicine & Health Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:00:01 EST news168598077 Two articles published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine highlight the need for, and the practicalities of, getting appropriate ethical review of research done in the context of humanitarian relief. http://www.physorg.com/news167990252.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:00:14 EST news167990252 New US legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jurisdiction over tobacco products represents a serious compromise on the part of tobacco control advocates, argues a new essay in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news167988580.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:30:25 EST news167988580 Some babies who are exposed to malaria before birth develop a tolerant phenotype that increases their susceptibility to malaria and anemia in childhood, says a new study in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news167978788.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:10:02 EST news167978788 A new study by Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers shows that most early-stage ovarian tumors exist for years at a size that is a thousand times smaller than existing tests can detect reliably. http://www.physorg.com/news167977265.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:21:47 EST news167977265 A new subsidy designed to increase access to life-saving antiretrovirals must remain focused on quality patient care if it is to succeed, argues Tido von Schoen-Angerer and colleagues in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news167380613.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:10:02 EST news167380613 Should the financial ties between doctors and drug companies be completely cut, or are healthy alliances between the two possible with the common aim of improving human health? A debate in this week's PLoS Medicine discusses whether the influence of drug company money on doctors is always a corrupting one. http://www.physorg.com/news167376230.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:24:18 EST news167376230 The virus that causes AIDS is classified as a lentivirus, a word derived from the Latin prefix, "lenti-," meaning "slow." But new research from the NIAID-funded Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology suggests that HIV-1 is anything but - moving at breathtaking speed in destroying and dysregulating the body's gut-based B-cell antibody-producing system. http://www.physorg.com/news166161662.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:01:24 EST news166161662