http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay)—Risk factors have been identified for medical complications following cervical spine surgery, with cardiac and pulmonary complications correlating with death within two years, according to research published in the Feb. 1 issue of Spine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-factors-idd-cervical-spinal-surgery.html Surgery Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:37 EST news279464430 (HealthDay)—For patients with acute or chronic low back pain (LBP), predictors have been identified for clinically relevant improvements in LBP, pain down the leg (LP), and disability at three months, according to research published in the November issue of The Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-spanish-registry-ids-predictors-pain.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:30:01 EST news275228975 It's common knowledge that excessive UV exposure from sunlight raises your chances for skin cancer, but predicting whether someone will actually develop skin cancer remains difficult. In a new research report, scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison show that the risk for skin cancer involves numerous genetic factors including family history, ethnicity, and genetic variations specific to each individual. Using these factors, the researchers developed a more precise model for assessing risk, which is published in the December 2012 issue of the journal Genetics. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-genetic-skin-cancer-uv-exposure.html Cancer Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:53:17 EST news273837178 Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a six-gene signature that can be used in a test to predict survival in men with aggressive prostate cancer, according to new research published in the October issue of The Lancet Oncology. This is the first study to demonstrate how prognostic markers may be useful in a clinical setting. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-gene-signature-prostate-cancer-survival.html Cancer Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:13:15 EST news269100532 Using outbreak data from 2003-2010, Kathleen O'Reilly of Imperial College London, UK and colleagues develop a statistical model of the spread of wild polioviruses in Africa that can predict polio outbreaks six months in advance. The authors' findings, published in this week's PLoS Medicine, indicate that outbreaks of polio in Africa over the study period resulted mainly from continued transmission in Nigeria and other countries that reported polio cases, and from poor immunization status. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-polio.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:23:35 EST news238177407