http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (AP)—The Supreme Court will decide whether generic drug manufacturers can be held responsible in state courts for possible design defects that are in the brand-name medicine they are copying. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-court-makers-sued-drug-flaws.html Medications Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:58:26 EST news273513479 Prevalence of a particularly dangerous form of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) jumped three-fold in just two years, in hospitals in the United Kingdom, according to a paper in the October 2012 Journal of Clinical Microbiology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dangerous-mrsa-endemic-hospitals-uk.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:40:02 EST news270203384 Slight temperature increases of the oral mucus membranes early in a head and neck cancer patient's chemotherapy and radiation therapy (chemoradiotherapy) treatment is a predictor of severe mucositis later in treatment, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-oral-temperature-neck-cancer-patients.html Cancer Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:40:01 EST news246795476 A study combining three trials of antiviral therapy to treat genital herpes (herpes simplex virus type 2/HSV-2) has shown that the virus can reactivate in 'breakthrough episodes' even when doses of antiviral therapy are high. Thus new therapies are needed to successfully prevent onward transmission of this common infection that affects some one in five of the general population. These are the conclusions of an Article published Online First by the Lancet, written by Dr Christine Johnston, University of Washington Virology Research Clinic, Seattle, WA, USA, and colleagues. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-genital-herpes-reactivate-high-dose.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:30:01 EST news244915701