http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are refused for transplant due to factors ranging from scarring in small blood vessels of the kidney's filtering units to the organ going too long without blood or oxygen. But, what if instead of being discarded, these organs could be "recycled" to help solve the critical shortage of donor organs? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-source-kidneys-transplant.html Medical research Mon, 20 May 2013 16:20:04 EST news288284721 New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that suicide, while strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, also correlates with environmental pollution. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-nc-coal-emissions-role-state.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 13 May 2013 16:52:38 EST news287682753 Predicting outcomes for cancer patients based on tumor-immune system interactions is an emerging clinical approach, and new research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is advancing the field when it comes to the most deadly types of breast cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-immune-surveillance-war-cancer.html Genetics Thu, 09 May 2013 10:53:22 EST news287315589 For many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful. Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time. The findings are published in the current online issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-regular-moderate-worsen-pain-people.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Thu, 02 May 2013 13:38:20 EST news286720675 Many diseases – obesity, Type 2 diabetes, muscular dystrophy – are associated with fat accumulation in muscle. In essence, fat replacement causes the muscles to weaken and degenerate. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-identification-stem-cells-possibility-therapies.html Medical research Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:21:49 EST news286543223 Many people survive their cancers, but end up dying of cardiovascular disease (CVD). New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center finds that CVD risk factors may be overlooked during survivorship care. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-survived-cancer-cardiovascular.html Cancer Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:11:43 EST news285343525 Women often point to stress, hormones, alcohol, or even the weather as possible triggers for their migraines. But a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center found that it is nearly impossible for patients to determine the true cause of their migraine episodes without undergoing formal experiments. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-migraines-impossible.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Apr 2013 04:25:43 EST news284613936 Using the same strategy that a common virus employs to evade the human immune system, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have modified adult stem cells to increase their survival – with the goal of giving the cells time to exert their natural healing abilities. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-common-virus-fortify-adult-stem.html Medical research Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:09:35 EST news284051343 A proof-of-concept study suggests the possibility of engineering artificial ovaries in the lab to provide a more natural option for hormone replacement therapy for women. In Biomaterials, a team from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine report that in the laboratory setting, engineered ovaries showed sustained release of the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-functional-ovarian-tissue-lab.html Medical research Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:52:07 EST news283535521 (Medical Xpress)—A Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center team studying alcohol addiction has new research that might shed light on why some drinkers are more susceptible to addiction than others. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-clues-alcohol-addiction-vulnerability.html Addiction Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:47 EST news283505255 New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is giving radiation oncologists who treat brain tumors a better understanding of how to preserve the brain's functions while still killing cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-toxicity-brain-cognition-cancer-patients.html Cancer Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:30:08 EST news282997801 New research from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that a diabetes prevention program led by community health workers is effective at reducing blood glucose and potentially reducing diabetes over the long term. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-approach-effective-diabetes.html Diabetes Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:00:01 EST news282762099 Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and colleagues have identified a special population of adult stem cells in bone marrow that have the natural ability to migrate to the intestine and produce intestinal cells, suggesting their potential to restore healthy tissue in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-cell-therapy-bowel-disease.html Medical research Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:14:29 EST news281247258 (Medical Xpress)—A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that an increase in fat throughout the thigh is predictive of mobility loss in otherwise healthy older adults. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-thigh-fat-blame-older-adults.html Health Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:20:04 EST news280496933 A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is the first to report that high blood calcium levels might predict of ovarian cancer, the most fatal of the gynecologic cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-high-blood-calcium-ovarian-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:20:22 EST news278162409