http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Supreme Court seemed worried Monday about the idea of companies patenting human genes in a case that could profoundly reshape the multibillion-dollar biomedical industry and U.S. research in the fight against diseases like breast and ovarian cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-court-human-genes-patented_1.html Genetics Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:47:39 EST news285248849 A lawyer in Germany claims surgeons left up to 16 objects in her client's body after an operation for prostate cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-lawyer-surgeons-left-items-german.html Surgery Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:20:06 EST news277640397 British police officers should undertake an annual fitness test and face a pay cut if they repeatedly fail, a report said Thursday, after finding that half of London policemen were overweight. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-british-police-overweight.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:42:10 EST news251019717 (AP) -- New Jersey officials have revoked the medical license of an oncologist they say committed "gross and repeated acts of negligence" that led to an outbreak of hepatitis B among his patients. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-nj-doctor-hepatitis-outbreak.html Other Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:51:05 EST news235277385 (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-high-court-undoes-scalia-pro-tobacco.html Other Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:50:16 EST news228628204