http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (HealthDay) -- They were being shown off as healthy porcine specimens, but several of the show pigs at the Minnesota State Fair in 2009 actually were infected with swine flu, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-healthy-looking-pigs-state-fair-swine.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:30:05 EST news264428006 Washington State University researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-environmental-toxicants-ovarian-disease.html Cancer Fri, 04 May 2012 02:20:03 EST news255313823 If you are pregnant, here's another reason to work out: you will reduce the chances of your new baby developing neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, later in life. A new research report published online in The FASEB Journal shows that mice bred to develop a neurodegenerative disease roughly equivalent to Alzheimer's disease showed fewer signs of the disease and greater brain plasticity later in life when their mothers exercised regularly than those whose mothers did not exercise. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-pregnant-women-offspring-long-term-neurodegenerative.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:50:45 EST news236249413