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| First Trachea Transplant in a Woman; Free of Drugs |
An international research team announced on Wednesday that a woman from Colombia has just received the first trachea transplant which was grown by seeding a donor organ with her stem cells as to prevent her body from rejecting it. The surgery was a total success and it was made back in June. The doctors used tissue from the woman’s... |
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According to recent research conducted by a British and Sweden team of
scientist who for the first time measured the effect of air pollution on heart
activity, trying to find a way to prevent heart attacks, have found yet another
cause for it.
Apparently the fume emissions from both gas and diesel cars,
but mostly diesel, are...
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 San Jose
residents Ha Nguyen, 48, and Zbigniew Makowski, 62, have been put in jail and
refused parole unless 1 million dollars bail is paid, as Santa Clara County Judge
Jerome Nadler ruled on Friday.
The couple was arrested Wednesday night on charges they
performed plastic surgery on about a dozen women. One woman was left...
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 According to recent studies conducted by the European Food
Safety Agency (EFSA), there is a possible link between certain food colors and
increased hyperactivity in children.
The commission ordered the investigation after a groundbreaking
British study found that a cocktail of artificial colors and the commonly used
preservative...
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 Suicide rates among American preteens and teenagers have soared over the past decade, health officials said, as use of antidepressants decreased.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report Thursday that shows suicide rates among American children and teenagers rose 8 percent in 2004, the highest increase since...
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 A new study by experts from the U.S. Mayo Clinic has found that women who have their ovaries removed have to cope with a significantly increased risk of neurological problems, according to statistics at the Mayo Clinic. This may be due to the protective effect of the hormones produced in the ovaries.Ovaries are often removed together...
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 A new study published online on August 28 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has concluded that hypnosis treatment prior to breast cancer surgery is beneficial and has better results than counseling. The study was led by Guy Montgomery, Ph.D., of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and compared 200 women who were...
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 A new study in the August 28th issue of the Neurology journal concluded that statin drugs may help prevent the brain damage that leads to Alzheimer's disease. The study's lead author, Dr. Gail (Ge) Li, an assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, in Seattle, and his...
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 Medtronic, Inc. received the approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market their Prestige Cervical Disc for use in the neck area of the spine, in order to allow movement for patients with degeneration of the intervertebral disc, which best known as "degenerative disc disease" (DDD). Now Medtronic has to...
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 Elijah Moulton, aged 8 months, survived a very difficult five organ transplant, which saw his liver, small bowel, pancreas, colon and stomach replaced in a seven-hour procedure on July 10 at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian. He was suffering from a rare gastrointestinal malformation called total intestinal...
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 Mars Petcare US Inc. issued a voluntary recall for two of its brands over fears they might be contaminated with Gram-negative bacterium of the Salmonella genus. They are the five-pound bags of Krasdale Gravy dry dog food, and the 50-pound bags of Red Flannel Large Breed Adult Formula dry dog food. The products were allegedly sold in...
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