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A teenage cancer patient has undergone successful surgery to rebuild his shoulder using his elbow.
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Graham McPartland hopes to move optometry out of the dark ages. McPartland, who is studying to be an eye doctor, has developed a computer-based vision-testing system. Now as he tries to market his brainchild, the 27-year-old optometrist-in-training is...
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ALBANY, July 10 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s administration is poised to begin an ambitious and potentially expensive push to expand health coverage to nearly three million more residents, aiming to fulfill Mr. Spitzer’s campaign promise to ultimately provide universal insurance.
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 73 weeks 4 days 1 hour 42 minutes ago
A therapy that temporarily shuts down the ovaries could protect the fertility of women with cancer, say researchers.
Australian scientists used a drug to turn off a hormonal "switch" in the brain that triggers ovulation.
Once the woman's toxic chemotherapy has ended, the drug is stopped and the...(more)
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submitted by owen 66 weeks 3 days 21 hours 28 minutes ago
Illinois dentists will have to follow stricter state guidelines before using deep sedation on patients under a new law that came in response to the death of a 5-year-old Chicago girl.
The law was prompted by the death of Diamond Brownridge, who slipped into a coma and...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 7 hours 42 minutes ago
Heart surgery is usually a case of "be still my beating heart" since it's easier to work with static tissue, despite the risk of brain damage and all the complications of cardiopulmonary bypass machines. No longer, perhaps: some clever bods at Harvard University and the Children's...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 weeks 2 days 2 hours 43 minutes ago
Shares of the medical device maker fell after a study showed that its new drug-coated stent was associated with more heart attacks and blood clots than a stent made by Johnson & Johnson.
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Breast cancer info 67 weeks 6 days 22 hours 4 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - MRI scans may offer a new way to detect breast cancer at its earliest stages and perhaps even prevent cancer among high-risk women, European researchers said on Thursday.
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submitted by Micca 68 weeks 6 days 22 hours 53 minutes ago
A row has erupted after an eight-month old baby was turned away from the burns unit of a Sussex hospital.
Kent Air Ambulance claims the unit at East Grinstead's Queen Victoria Hospital refused the boy because it does not take the service's referrals.
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Breast cancer info 72 weeks 3 days 20 hours 18 minutes ago
Lorie Williams thought for months that she might have a lump in her breast. But when the doctor said it was cancer, she was still stunned. After all, she was just 29 years old, no one in her family had ever had breast cancer, and she...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Breast cancer info 72 weeks 4 days 18 hours 51 minutes ago
There's little hard evidence that a diet rich in tomatoes and the tomato antioxidant lycopene can ward off cancer, according to research from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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