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Some women would do anything for beauty, even the most repulsive things. When it comes to health though – nay, life or death –, it shouldn't even be a matter of choice: a new study shows that fecal transplantation saves lives.
It's one of the taboo treatments that has the potential to fight a v... |
15 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have found a key molecule that can establish blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow, discovery that could significantly improve the safety and efficiency of bone marrow transplants.Hematopoietic stem cells – the active ingredients of bone marrow t... |
7 January 2011
08:25 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital, have made a major breakthrough into the causes of one of the most severe liver diseases in infants - biliary atresia.This disease is quite rare, as it only affects one in 10,000 newborn children, but it is life-... |
27 October 2010
05:47 GMT |
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For the first time in Canada, the Peter Munk Cardiac Center implanted a long-lasting mechanical heart in a heart-failure patient.This new left ventricular assist device – LVAD, is longer lasting than the older generation and is excludes the need for a second surgery.The person who benefited from this innovation... |
12 October 2010
10:21 GMT |
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A new computer model, experimented on animals, shows why five to ten percent of bone fractures do not heal properly, and also how these cases can be treated and the healing process restarted.In bone fracture cases, 5 to 10 percent of the healing processes do not repair the bone and only lead to fractures that fail to... |
3 September 2010
10:58 GMT |
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In some of the most serious and advanced cancer cases, aggressive chemotherapy is the only option doctors have in trying to cure the patient. However, because of the way it acts, chemo doesn't only attack cancer, but affects the entire body, and can severely hamper the operations of bone marrow, leading to some ... |
10 June 2009
01:53 GMT |
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As stem cell research is currently making impressive headway in the creation of artificial organs, doctors in the UK are starting to ponder the ethical implications of performing voice box transplants. This type of surgical procedure refers to replacing a human larynx, the organ that is responsible for giving each ma... |
27 February 2009
09:35 GMT |
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A Bloomberg piece claims that Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs, is considering a liver transplant due to the side effects of his treatment for pancreatic cancer. Jobs was allegedly reached by telephone, where he vehemently denied to provide further information about his health. According to the repor... |
19 January 2009
03:26 GMT |
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A woman who was injured to her face beyond any recognition benefited from an almost complete face transplant, as doctors replaced 80 percent of all tissue, skin, bones, muscles and nerves on her face, a Cleveland Clinic representative announced on Wednesday. This is the first such procedure to be performed in the Uni... |
18 December 2008
02:34 GMT |
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Doctors at the Infertility Center in St. Louis managed to facilitate the birth of the first ever baby to be born out of a transplanted ovary. One of the hospital's patients, who entered premature menopause at age 15, received a full ovary transplant from her twin sister and managed to give birth to a health baby... |
11 December 2008
10:16 GMT |
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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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Face is what physically represents you. In the ID card, you have a picture of your face, not of your arm, a*s or belly. That's why it's hard to imagine the feeling of losing it. This is what happened two years ago to Isabelle Dinoire, a French woman, 38 by then, who had been disfigured by her dog. She was t... |
17 December 2007
03:20 GMT |
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From breast implants to vaginaplasty, a woman can completely reshape her body nowadays. And if hair implant is used against baldness, why not having eyelash and eyebrow implants?"Have you ever wished you had long, voluptuous eyelashes and perfectly full eyebrows? Well now you can achieve both with a revolutionary hai... |
5 June 2007
15:56 GMT |
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The techniques of organ transplanting may have developed at an astonishing pace and more patients can survive now, but this came with a side effect: 90 % of them get skin cancer. In case of the transplant patients, the risk of getting skin cancer is up to 250 times higher than for the overall population. This is due ... |
21 May 2007
09:43 GMT |
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The transplant techniques have advanced substantially, but not so the number of donors. Due to the huge shortage of donor organs, researchers have been looking for methods of transplanting animal organs across different species (a method named "xenotransplantation"), with the main goal of employing animal organs for ... |
29 March 2007
06:01 GMT |
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