Hannah Powell-Auslam is only ten-years old, and is just like other girls her age, except for one major difference, she has breast cancer. This is very rare, one in ten women will get breast cancer, but this cancer in...
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Two people have been arrested in Mexico City today for selling flu masks on the street for 25 times their regular price. Surgical masks are a hot ticket item right now as people try to cover their faces from the deadly swine flu outbreak. A 35 year-old woman and her 15...
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This is a first in the world. An opportunity to seal incisions using a new method that discourages infection by its application and procedure."Surgeons of the future may have to learn welding rather than sewing,...
"As obsessions go this has to be one of the weirdest known to man - someone who would voluntarily file his teeth, split his lip and undergo extensive facial surgery - to turn himself into a 'human tiger'.Dennis...
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With major surgery now occurring at a rate of 234 million procedures per year – one for every 25 people – and studies indicating that a significant percentage result in preventable complications and deaths,...
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Though initially limited to Serbia itself, violence has now erupted among the Serb populations of breakaway Republic Kosovo."A Ukrainian police officer serving with the United Nations in Kosovo died of injuries sustained in violent clashes with Serbs on Monday, Ukraine's...
Last week wednesday, a high school dropout, Robert A. Hawkins, carried out a shooting rampage in an Omaha shopping mall, Nebraska, killing eight people. It ended when he turned his high-powered rifle on...
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"82 women have attended the surgical clinic in Portlaoise after a review of ultrasounds at the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise.
Most of the women are under 50 and many of them come from parts of Tipperary, Kildare South and Galway as well as Laois and Offaly.
Professor...
"The mother of rap star Kanye West has died at the age of 58 after cosmetic surgery developed complications.
Dr Donda West, who managed the star's businesses and educational foundation and was the subject of his song Hey Mama, died in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Her publicist...
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Loss of natural teeth is the final sign for many that age has caught up
Oct. 24, 2007 - These days they say 60 is the new 40, but some senior citizens are not sure their teeth have heard this...
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Loss of natural teeth is the final sign for many that age has caught up
Oct. 24, 2007 - These days they say 60 is the new 40, but some senior citizens are not sure their teeth have heard this...
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"The products include pediatric heart valves and conduits (tube-like devices for blood flow), surgical patches, dural patches (to aid in tissue recovery after neurosurgery), annuloplasty rings (to help repair heart valves) and arterial grafts. The tissue-based devices are...
""I've seen some of the planning ... You're not talking about a surgical strike," said Wayne White, who was a top Middle East analyst for the State Department's bureau of intelligence and research until March 2005.
"You're talking about a war against Iran" that likely would...