http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded approval for a breath test that screens for a common ulcer-causing germ, to include children aged 3 years to 17. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-children-eligible-screening-bacterium.html Medications Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:38:27 EST news249331075 Male fetuses of mothers that are exposed to radiation during early pregnancy may have an increased chance of developing testicular cancer, according to a study in mice at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The article was published today in PLoS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-fetal-exposure-testicular-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:00:01 EST news248370977 Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' offices around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-sonicating-sperm-future-male.html Other Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:55:56 EST news247118146 Daily doses of a soy germ-based nutritional supplement containing S-equol significantly improved menopausal symptoms, including significantly reducing hot flash frequency after 12 weeks according to a placebo-controlled study in postmenopausal Japanese women published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Women's Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-fermented-soy-ingredient-s-equol-significantly.html Health Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:16:55 EST news244912607 A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher has achieved a significant breakthrough in male fertility, producing normal sperm from mouse cells. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-male-fertility-breakthrough.html Medical research Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:08:27 EST news240577700 (AP) -- Avoid foreign produce. Wash and peel your fruit. Keep it refrigerated. None of these common tips would have guaranteed your safety from the deadliest food outbreak in a decade, the one involving cantaloupes from Colorado. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-killer-cantaloupe-scary-.html Health Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:28:19 EST news236539310 A team of researchers from Spain and Switzerland have developed a new model for studying the development of testicular germ cell tumors by transplanting embryonic stem cells into the seminiferous tubules in mouse models, resulting in the development of testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT) that mimic the early stages of TGCT development. The study, published in Cell Transplantation (20:5), is now freely available on-line. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-germ-cell-tumors-embryonic-stem.html Cancer Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:14:41 EST news229605253