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Data regarding as much as 200,000 kidney transplants done between 1985 and 2004, shows that gender is a key factor in this type of invasive procedure, kidneys from women received by men being unable to fully cope with their function due to their smaller size, while female recipients are much more likely to reject mal... |
11 July 2008
04:38 GMT |
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Life without French fries is unfathomable for most junk food addicts. Nevertheless, ingesting them means more than just making one obese (with all the accompanying health related issues): a new Dutch research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that acrylamide, a chemical abundant in French ... |
13 May 2008
17:21 GMT |
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Female genitalia are polyvalent. It seems that the vagina is on the way to turn into the natural female orifice for getting rid of internal organs. After the removal of appendixes, now a team of doctors at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona have successfully removed a cancerous kidney via the vagina of a 66 year-old wo... |
1 April 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Anatomy books tell you that humans have one pair of kidneys. But reality can sometimes get you astounded. What may the sensation be when going to the hospital because of a stomach pain and they tell you you've got four kidneys?This is what happened to the British Laura Moon, 18: an ultrasound scan revealed she p... |
19 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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About 300,000 people annually in US enter the hospitals because of the kidney stones (medically called renal lithiases). The pain is excruciating, like that felt by women when giving birth. Some believe this condition is something recent, linked to modern lifestyle and junk food. In reality, people have been tortured... |
8 November 2007
17:11 GMT |
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She can consider herself lucky because had she been conceived in these times, her mother would have had an abortion. Chinese doctors have found 26 sewing needles inside the body of Luo Cuifen, a 31-year-old woman. They suspect they were inserted into the woman's body when she was a newborn by her grandparents be... |
7 September 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Two thirds of the adult body are formed by water. A 68 kg person has about 38 liters of water in the body. 23-26 % is found inside the cells, 7,5 % in the space between the cells and less than 4 liters in the blood. This volume must be constantly maintained. How? Drinking daily two liters of water: the body adsorbs i... |
25 June 2007
15:06 GMT |
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