Mountain View, California-based company Intrapace has begun selling a new type of medical implant throughout Europe, one which officials at the corporation herald as a viable alternative to stomach bypass surgery and stapling for people who are morbidly obese. The tool could provide the same benefit, but without the ... |
8 March 2011
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Tiny cameras used to see the inside of the body are far from a new concept today, although it is the first time when the movements of such a device can be controlled as it passes through the organs. The idea behind tiny cameras used for medical explorations is very simple. The patient swallows a small device inside w... |
9 June 2008
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This is really remarkable: a woman had all her abdominal organs removed, for the extirpation of a tumor. Brooke Zepp, 63, from South Florida, was found, in May 2007, to have leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer type, located deep inside her abdomen. The tumor had wrapped itself around woman's aorta and other arteries d... |
27 March 2008
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Crocodiles do deserve they reputation: they hunt and eat everything, from fish and other small preys to buffalo and cattle; even lions were drawn and eaten by crocodiles. All this without mentioning the threat they pose to people. And a large meal can be enough for them for one year: crocodiles can ingest up to 23% o... |
5 February 2008
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You can't wait for that dream holiday when you just lay on the beach and catch sun. But watch out: too much wet sand or swimming in the sea can harm your stomach. A team at the University of Florida has discovered that by spending more time on the wet sand or in the water you increase the chances of getting germ... |
4 February 2008
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1.Digestion takes place inside a 9 m (30 ft) long duct called digestive tube. It starts in the mouth and even if the food stays very little here, this is the place where the break down of the starches begins. The taste detects food's flavor, size, composition, texture and temperature. By chewing the food, the su... |
17 January 2008
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Doctors say that chewing sugar-free gum after a meal decreases mouth's bacterial acidity, the main factor involved in tooth decay, due to the abundant salivation, diluting and neutralizing the acid. And here comes the shock: a new research published in the "British Medical Journal" shows that exaggerating with t... |
11 January 2008
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Some conditions can induce real bizarre eating behaviors. Pica ("magpie" in Latin) is a disease characterized by the appetite for non-food substances. These people will ingest anything, like a magpie, from non-food substances like dirt, paper, coal, soil, chalk, glue and clay but will also have a curious appetite fo... |
24 November 2007
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This story seems taken from the X-Files or a Stephen King novel, but it is in fact the most severe case of fetus in fetu ever recorded. It occurs in 1 in 500,000 live births and it is a developmental abnormality in which a parasitic twin fetus grows within its host twin. This phenomenon takes place very early in a tw... |
2 August 2007
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Do you like Mexican chili? Hot and spicy... But if you think the problem posed by the beans is the "jet propulsion", you're wrong. Lectins, a type of proteins with natural insecticide qualities and found in abundance in raw legumes and grains, can have more severe temporary effects.Lectins strongly adhere to car... |
2 August 2007
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Aspirin is the universal panacea against headache. Others sustain that aspirin is beneficial for men and women over 50 prone to heart attack due to smoking, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol level, low level of HDL (good) cholesterol, severe obesity, alcoholism, genetic predisposition to early heart attack or ... |
31 July 2007
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