http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Performed an average of a decade after initial facelift surgery, a "secondary" facelift can achieve similarly lasting results with a low complication rate, according to a paper in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-secondary-facelift-good-results-plastic.html Surgery Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:44:48 EST news281274275 One of the greatest challenges faced by cancer surgeons is to know exactly which tissue to remove, or not, while the patient is under anesthesia. A team of surgeons and scientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new technique that will allow surgeons to identify during surgery which lymph nodes are cancerous so that healthy tissue can be saved. The findings will be published in the January 15 print edition of Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-surgical-technique-cancer-invasion-fluorescence.html Cancer Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:38:00 EST news277051074 Two-year-old Jax Cannon is giving his dad high-fives. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-fast-response-microsurgery-boy-facial.html Surgery Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:34:57 EST news259565675 Treatment for Bell palsy (a condition involving the facial nerve and characterized by facial paralysis) with the corticosteroid prednisolone within 72 hours appeared to significantly reduce the number of patients with mild to moderate palsy severity at 12 months, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-effect-prednisolone-patients-bell-palsy.html Surgery Mon, 21 May 2012 16:00:30 EST news256813062 A technique that delivers highly focused beams of radiation, known as Cyberknife, can relieve the stabbing pain of the facial nerve condition trigeminal neuralgia, indicates a small study published online in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-cyberknife-relieves-stabbing-pain-facial.html Neuroscience Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:24:34 EST news246860664 Research work drawn up by specialists from the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the University of Navarra Hospital has shown that, after surgical treatment for facial paralysis through using muscular transplant and nervous transposition (connection of facial muscle to a nerve different from the injured facial nerve), the brain of a woman – in comparison to that of a male - manages to adapt itself better, recovers the spontaneous smile and has a greater time period available for repairing the paralysis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-brain-function-involved-recovery-facial.html Other Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:10:02 EST news240055749 SPOKANE, WASH. –A research study conducted at Washington State University Spokane offers hope to those suffering from facial nerve damage. According to the study, which was published online this week in the journal Developmental Neurohabilitation, muscle weakness resulting from facial nerve damage incurred during childhood can improve with intensive facial exercise, years after injury. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-wsu-window-facial-nerve.html Other Tue, 10 May 2011 09:09:11 EST news224237330