http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A collaborative research team including a Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) pediatric neuropathologist successfully mitigated some of the effects of a muscular disease by using a new targeted enzyme replacement therapy strategy from 4s3 Bioscience. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-enzyme-therapy-results-x-linked-myotubular.html Genetics Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:38:17 EST news278077010 Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute researchers have found in an initial clinical trial that a drug typically prescribed for erectile dysfunction or pulmonary hypertension restores blood flow to oxygen-starved muscles in patients with a type of muscular dystrophy that affects males, typically starting in childhood or adolescence. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-common-drug-reverses-effect-becker.html Medical research Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:42:41 EST news273336154 The no-frills maternity ward in Nawanshahr district public hospital offers a rare sight in India; parents cooing over newborn girls -- lots of them. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-songs-shame-india-gender.html Health Wed, 25 Jul 2012 04:10:01 EST news262407199 Increased access to technology that allows parents to know the sex of their foetus has left Asia short of 117 million women, mostly in China and India, the UN said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-ultrasounds-worsen-asia-women-shortage.html Health Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:39:32 EST news237105558 (Medical Xpress) -- A team led by scientists at UCL, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and AVI BioPharma, have made an important breakthrough in the development of a treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-treatment-success-duchenne-muscular-dystrophy.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:25:35 EST news230804709 Ionizing radiation is not without danger to human populations. Indeed, exposure to nuclear radiation leads to an increase in male births relative to female births, according to a new study by Hagen Scherb and Kristina Voigt from the Helmholtz Zentrum München. Their work shows that radiation from atomic bomb testing before the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963, the Chernobyl accident, and from living near nuclear facilities, has had a long-term negative effect on the ratio of male to female human births (sex odds). Their work is published in the June issue of Springer's journal, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nuclear-affects-baby-gender.html Health Thu, 26 May 2011 10:02:00 EST news225622907