http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. More than 100 women per day die from breast cancer in the United States. The odds of developing breast cancer increase for women taking hormone replacement therapy to avoid the effects of menopause. New research by University of Missouri scientist Salman Hyder may lead to treatments for breast cancers associated with taking these synthetic hormones. Hyder, along with an international team, found that hormone-therapy-related breast cancer cells have a physical feature that could be attacked by cancer therapies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-breast-cancers-trait-therapies.html Cancer Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:49:39 EST news283614572 The widely held belief that the UK supply of innovative new medicines has conspicuously dwindled in recent decades, is not borne out by the evidence, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-myth-uk-pharma-drugs.html Medications Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:30:02 EST news280604669 (HealthDay)—In what researchers are calling a first, a new analysis suggests that the greater a woman's exposure to a type of common chemical compound called PFCs, the greater her risk for developing osteoarthritis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-chemicals-cookware-carpets-arthritis-women.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:40:02 EST news280065230 More than 85,000 synthetic chemicals are registered for commercial use with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and only about half of those produced in large quantities are tested for their potential toxic effects on humans. Children are particularly vulnerable to environmental toxins and a detailed look at how and why, and what can be done to protect children's health, is presented in a two-part article published in Alternative and Complementary Therapies from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-children-higher-negative-health-effects.html Health Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:11:53 EST news276952305 Bisphenol A or BPA is a synthetic chemical widely used in the making of plastic products ranging from bottles and food can linings to toys and water supply lines. When these plastics degrade, BPA is released into the environment and routinely ingested. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-bpa-real-threat-metabolized.html Health Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:00:02 EST news268587274 Ob-gyns are uniquely positioned to play a major role in reducing the effects of toxic chemicals on women and babies, according to an analysis led by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-ob-gyns-negative-health-impacts-environmental.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:03:06 EST news250959766 Mothers who are exposed to particular agents during pregnancy could give birth to children with a higher risk of asthma, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-mother-occupation-pregnant-asthma-children.html Health Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:32:16 EST news236230328 Most synthetic chemical products used in consumer goods end up unchanged in the environment. Given the risks this could pose for the environment and human health, researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) have developed a new tool to effectively predict what will happen to current and future pharmaceutical products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-environmental-effect-pharmaceutical-products.html Other Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:30:01 EST news231063740 Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a molecular mechanism which could bring about the development of new treatments for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) -- a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-breakthrough-treatments-multiple-sclerosis.html Medical research Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:27:54 EST news227867260