http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Sport and exercise academics at the University of Derby have discovered that wearing a heavy backpack during physical activity, such as that worn by the military on exercise, can significantly decrease performance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-backpack-limit-physical.html Health Wed, 15 May 2013 08:30:01 EST news287823860 Surgeons at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) have fitted a patient with a device that might eliminate the need for surgery in some patients with one of the world's most common chest deformities, pectus excavatum, often called sunken chest syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-non-surgical-device-sunken-chest.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:59:48 EST news272735961 (AP)—Surgeons at a Philadelphia hospital have successfully completed operations to separate 8-month-old twin girls who were joined at the lower chest and abdomen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-conjoined-month-old-twins.html Surgery Thu, 08 Nov 2012 03:05:05 EST news271566290 A common deformity that cases a depression in the chest wall inhibits lung function as the cavity grows deeper, a national study of 327 patients published in the Journal of Pediatrics found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-lung-function-declines-chest-deformity.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:05:05 EST news232895080