Medicine NewsAP – At one of the nation’s top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient’s bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
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AP – When it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn’t said yes, and may never. But he and his top aides won’t quite say no, either, to an idea he attacked sharply in his campaign for the White House.
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AP – The U.S. military says two cases of swine flu have been confirmed in soldiers at its medical center in Landstuhl, Germany.
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Both blood pressure and serum lipid levels have improved in Swedish middle-aged women during the past 30 years. Levels of perceived mental stress, however, have increased significantly. These are the of a thesis presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The study is part of the Prospective Population Study of [...]
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With the U.N. Human Rights Council’s June session coming up, governments have a “chance to prove that they value women’s lives by taking concrete action” to recognize “preventable maternal death as a violation of women’s rights,” Mary Robinson and Alicia Yamin, advisory council members of the International Initiative on Maternal Mortality and Human Rights, write [...]
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The Planned Parenthood Center of El Paso has begun to refocus its services on family planning and women’s health, and likely will shift its HIV/AIDS support programs to other providers that specialize in such services, according to the local agency’s board president, the El Paso Times reports.
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Transplant surgeon, Stuart R. Geffner, M.D., Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery, Saint Barnabas Health Care System Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division, is the first in the world to use the Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci(TM) Surgical System to successfully implant a kidney into a living recipient. This procedure revolutionizes kidney transplant surgery, taking an [...]
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Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: PMTI), a leading researcher and developer of light-based systems for cosmetic treatments, announced that it has become the first company to receive a 510(k) over-the-counter (OTC) clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a new, patented, home use, laser device for the treatment of periorbital [...]
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