http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A team of cancer researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has solved the mystery of how one of the most powerful of the body's natural tumor-suppressing proteins, called Chd5, exerts its beneficial effects. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-team-mechanism-powerful-tumor-suppressor-proteins.html Cancer Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:00:06 EST news277027007 (Medical Xpress)—A study has found that young, less-experienced surgeons made major surgical mistakes almost half the time during a "simulated" gall bladder removal when they were distracted by noises, questions, conversation or other commotion in the operating room. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-young-surgeons-special-room-distractions.html Surgery Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:04:11 EST news273420236 An acute care surgery model led to improvement in the quality of surgical patient care and reduced the cost of emergency surgical care at Loma Linda University Medical Center, report researchers who published their findings in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-acute-surgical-quality-lowers-procedures.html Surgery Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:45:52 EST news271521942 Data from the 1970s and 1980s show that people affected by cancer survived significantly longer in West Germany than cancer patients behind the Iron Curtain. Looking at a diagnosis period from 1984 to 1985 in the former German Democratic Republic, 28 percent of colorectal cancer patients, 46 percent of prostate cancer patients, and 52 percent of breast cancer patients survived the first five years after diagnosis. By contrast, 5-year survival rates for people in West Germany affected by these types of cancer were 44 percent, 68 percent, and 68 percent in the years from 1979 to 1983 already. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cancer-survival-germany-fall-iron.html Cancer Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:10:01 EST news264945156 Surgical technique is a factor related to small-bowel obstruction (SBO) and compared with laparoscopic surgery, open surgery appears to be associated with an increased risk of SBO, according to a study published in the April issue of Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-factors-small-bowel-obstruction-surgery.html Surgery Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:00:02 EST news253810736 NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have discovered the novel protective role dendritic cells play in the pancreas. The new study, published in the November issue of journal Gastroenterology, shows dendritic cells can safeguard the pancreas against acute pancreatitis, a sudden dangerous swelling and inflammation of the pancreas gland. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-dendritic-cells-acute-pancreatitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:29:40 EST news241198166 Unexpected discovery of a new molecular signature for a destructive and often lethal pediatric liver disease may lead to a new therapeutic target for the hard-to-treat condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-treatment-main-severe-liver-disease.html Medical research Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:03:48 EST news239965409 Drospirenone, the top-selling oral contraceptive marketed as Yaz or Yasmin in the U.S. and Canada, doesn't carry any more risk of gall bladder disease than the older generation of birth control pills, despite claims by some consumers and lawyers in both countries, according to a new study by University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute researcher Mahyar Etminan. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-04-oral-contraceptive-safe-gall-bladder.html Medications Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:31:16 EST news222348658