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womenhealthcareinfo.wordpress.comHow do Silicone Breast Implants feel? – Silicone Breast Implants NYCWomen who consider going for breast implants, they are normally undecided on which type to go with; silicone or saline. This choice is, for the most part, a personal one. The patient can discuss th…
1health.10ztalk.comHeart Transplant Program Restart; Exercise BP Excursions; Precision NOAC? ⋆ health.10ztalk.comBaylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston suspended its heart transplant program after an investigation by ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle turned up high mortality rates. Now it has been reactivated with some shakeups in the team, selection criteria, and multidisciplinary approach. (CBS News) Hypertension under control by medication during rest was not so during …
1boredpanda.com“Man With The Golden Arm” Whose Blood Saved The Lives Of 2.4 Million Babies Makes His Final DonationIn 1951, 14-year-old James Harrison from Australia awoke from a major chest surgery. Doctors removed one of his lungs and kept him hospitalized for three months. During this difficult time, Harrison learned that he was alive largely due to a vast quantity of transfused blood he had received. Then and there, he vowed he'd become a donor himself. Former Australian laws required blood donors to be at least 18 years old, so the boy had to wait 4 more years. But Harrison kept his promise. Donating regularly to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service for 60 years, the organization estimates that Harrison saved millions of lives.
health.10ztalk.comSurgical Blood Transfusions Tied to Clot Risk ⋆ health.10ztalk.comBy Steven ReinbergHealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 13, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Blood transfusions around the time of surgery may raise your risk for dangerous blood clots, researchers say. A new study of U.S. patients found that nearly 1 percent who received red blood cells before, during or after surgery developed clots in the following month. …
1health.10ztalk.comChildhood Neuroblastoma Survivors at Higher Risk for Psych Disorders ⋆ health.10ztalk.comPsychological disorders and the need for special education services were more commonly seen in childhood neuroblastoma survivors, a new study found. Compared with age- and sex-matched controls who were siblings of cancer survivors, children living at least 5 years after diagnosis with the rare pediatric brain tumor had significantly higher rates of social withdrawal or …
1health.10ztalk.comSunitinib Alone or after Nephrectomy in Metastatic Renal-Cell Carcinoma ⋆ health.10ztalk.comPatients Figure 1. Figure 1. Randomization, Treatment, and Follow-up of the Patients. The numbers of patients who died were based on the intention-to-treat population. The patients who did not undergo surgery (in the nephrectomy–sunitinib group) or who underwent subsequent nephrectomy (in the sunitinib-alone group), who withdrew consent, who were lost to follow-up, or who received …
1health.10ztalk.comAMA Tangles With 'Gene Doping' Guidelines ⋆ health.10ztalk.comCHICAGO — Some of the most interesting resolutions debated at the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates meeting are those that aren’t easily resolved. On Monday delegates wrestled with one such resolution from the Committee on Science and Technology, which proposed a statement that the AMA “encourages the development of safety guidelines and regulation …
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