http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. As soon as women quit hormone therapy, their rates of new breast cancer decline, supporting the hypothesis that stopping hormones can lead to tumor regression, according to a report e-published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, & Prevention. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-hormones-breast-cancer-regress.html Cancer Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:43:17 EST news249666192 Prenatal pet exposure, a mother's delivery mode and race are influential factors in a child's risk of developing allergies by age 2, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-prenatal-pet-exposure-delivery-mode.html Health Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:10:01 EST news232027022 Infection with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori provides reliable protection against allergy-induced asthma, immunologists from the University of Zurich have demonstrated in an animal model together with allergy specialists from the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Their results published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Investigation confirm the hypothesis recently put forward that the dramatic increase in allergic diseases in industrial societies is linked to the rapid disappearance of specific micro-organisms that populate the human body. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-gastric-bacterium-helicobacter-pylori-asthma.html Medical research Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:26:12 EST news228741960 (Medical Xpress) -- Too much cleanliness has been linked to the alarming rise in auto-immune and allergic diseases in the Western world, says Professor Barbara Fazekas de St Groth from the Centenary Institute. But the answer to this dilemma could lie in our gut. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-cleanliness-immune.html Medical research Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:04:55 EST news226231458 (Medical Xpress) -- Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden may have found the answer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-scientists-brain-barbie-doll-size.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 25 May 2011 17:00:01 EST news225547262 Bad news for muggle parents! A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo finds that we more or less "become" vampires or wizards just by reading about them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-happy-vampires-contented-wizards.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 09 May 2011 16:11:52 EST news224176288 Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the country. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. Hernandez, PhD, RN and Robert H. Eckel, MD, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that the fat eventually returns within one year, and is redistributed to other areas of the body, especially the upper abdomen. There was further redistribution around the shoulders and triceps of the arms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-liposuction-fat.html Medical research Mon, 09 May 2011 12:29:27 EST news224162945