http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported at the AACR Annual Meeting 2012. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-pi3kmtor-pathway-proteins-tied-poor.html Cancer Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:32:10 EST news252502306 Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown in an animal study that transplantation of adult stem cells enriched with a bone-regenerating hormone can help mend bone fractures that are not healing properly. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-stem-cell-treatment-option-broken.html Medical research Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:58:24 EST news226501077 Long-term survival rates for patients with advanced prostate cancer suggest they can be good candidates for surgery, Mayo Clinic researchers have found. Their study found a 20-year survival rate for 80 percent of patients diagnosed with cancer that has potentially spread beyond the prostate, known as cT3 prostate cancer, and treated with radical prostatectomy, or surgery to remove the prostate gland. Previously, patients found to have cT3 prostate cancer were offered radiation or hormone treatment, but not radical prostatectomy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-advanced-stage-prostate-cancer-patients-year.html Cancer Sun, 15 May 2011 13:28:31 EST news224684805 Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a steroid hormone that inhibits inflammation in the brain. The findings, to be published in the May 13 issue of the journal Cell, have implications for understanding the exaggerated inflammatory responses that are characteristic features of numerous neurodegenerative diseases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-sex-hormone-precursor-inhibits-brain.html Medical research Thu, 12 May 2011 12:27:54 EST news224422037