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clinic renowned for performing the nation’s first successful face transplant.
, 55, was taken on a specialized jet to the
.
“I don’t know at this point” if a face transplant will be considered, spokeswoman
said. “Priority one is to stabilize her.”
More than a dozen surgeons performed the highly unusual procedure at the Cleveland Clinic two months ago on a woman who suffered an injury that left her Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI, Nov 17 (Reuters) – Indian generics drugmaker
Ranbaxy Laboratories (RANB.BO:
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,
) has responded to a U.S. probe
into procedural violations at two of its Indian plants and
expects an early resolution, its chief executive said on
Monday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in September it
would block more than 30 generic drugs of Ranbaxy from entering
the United States because of violations in manufacturing at
Ranbaxy’s Read the rest of this entry »
A teen who authorities originally thought attempted to drop off a body at Blount Memorial Hospital was actually trying to get the dead man medical help, investigators have concluded.
Alcoa Police Detective Kris Sanders said authorities received information that it was a “drop off” because the 18-year-old man disappeared for a short time after arriving at the emergency room entrance on Jan. 6.
“Through an investigation, we learned that he was not Read the rest of this entry »
IN a career stretching back more than 50 years, musician Eddie Adcock has performed in plenty of theatres.
But never, it has to be said, in an operating theatre.
In the most extraordinary performance of his life, the bluegrass maestro, 70, was asked to play his banjo while brain surgeons poked and prodded inside his head.
The doctors – who kept the musician conscious under a local anaesthetic as they explored his brain – were looking for the Read the rest of this entry »
PRINCETON, NJ — The Charles Evans Foundation has pledged $1 million toward the construction of University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, the new, state-of-the-art hospital to replace the downtown Princeton facility that has been home to University Medical Center at Princeton since 1919.
The contribution, announced today by hospital-parent Princeton HealthCare System, brings to $82 million the total in philanthropic gifts and pledges Read the rest of this entry »
DZhana Simmons, a 14-year-old girl from South Carolina, was
able to leave the hospital on Wednesday after having had two transplants and
survived with artificial heart pumps, but no heart, for four months between the
transplants.
Last spring, the girl and her parents learned that she had
dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart becomes weakened and
enlarged and does not pump blood efficiently. On July 2, the girl was scheduled
for Read the rest of this entry »
As state and municipal officials struggle to cope with budget-busting health care costs, procedures developed at the Family Health Center in Worcester point to an area in which substantial savings are possible if applied statewide.
The center, at the site of the former Worcester City Hospital on Queen Street, was one of 21 community health centers participating in a state-funded pilot program. The program covered the cost of expanding urgent-care Read the rest of this entry »
(NaturalNews) Voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) is an invasive medical procedure involving a catheter used to examine the bladder and urethra. This procedure is often used on children and can have a negative impact on the child including distress and pain. In 2005, an article appeared in the journal
about the role hypnosis plays in helping children go through the procedure. Doctors need children to be cooperative during the VCUG and researchers Read the rest of this entry »
BERLIN (AFP) — French national anti-doping agency (AFLD) chief Pierre Bordry on Wednesday said there was “considerable evidence” of doping irregularities from blood transfusions taken at this year’s Tour de France.
“We possess considerable evidence from blood transfusions. We will only say later who it is,” Bordry told German TV station ZDF.
He added that anti-doping officials were concentrating on looking for traces of banned blood booster Read the rest of this entry »
Nov. 19, 2008 — Doctors in Europe have performed the first trachea
transplant that hinges on the patient’s own stem cells.
The operation, done in June at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain, was
successful and is detailed in today’s online edition of
.
. She’d already had
a stent implanted to reopen that airway, but that didn’t work out and the stent
had been removed.
Doctors got a trachea from an organ donor and stripped the donated trachea
of Read the rest of this entry »