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Surgeons offer procedures through belly button

There's a novel way to remove a gallbladder: Use a surgical robot to take it out through the navel.

Surgery created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Simple tool helps psychiatry residents ID risk of violence

(HealthDay)—A simple, structured risk assessment tool, the Historical, Clinical, Risk Management-20 clinical subscale (HCR-20-C), could help psychiatric residents more accurately evaluate the risk for violence ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

IV acetaminophen eases post-spinal op pain for children

(HealthDay)—Children and adolescents given intravenously (IV)-administered acetaminophen after major spine surgery have significantly less postoperative pain, compared with those given placebo, but administration ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study links another gene variant to male breast cancer

(HealthDay)—Researchers report that they've identified another genetic variation that appears connected to male breast cancer, a rare condition that kills several hundred men in the United States each year.

Cancer created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reseach reveals genomic similarities between breast cancer, ovarian cancers

One subtype of breast cancer shares many genetic features with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, a cancer that is very difficult to treat, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of ...

Cancer created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solving puzzle of B-cell lymphoma development

Germinal centers are sites in the organs of the lymphatic system, formed during the course of an immune response to infection, where B cells intensely proliferate and modify their DNA in order to produce ...

Immunology created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop editing toolkit for customizing zebrafish genomes

Mayo Clinic researchers and an international team of scientists have developed a highly-efficient means of editing zebrafish genomes for research purposes, eliminating a bottleneck that has stymied biomedical scientists from ...

Genetics created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swiss voters say no to tightening of smoking ban (Update)

Two-thirds of Swiss voters rejected a referendum Sunday to tighten a smoking ban, to the relief of hotels and restaurants, while two cantons split in a vote over keeping tax breaks for rich foreigners.

Health created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Peanut butter recall expands beyond Trader Joe's (Update)

(AP)—A California company is recalling 76 types of peanut butter and almond butter after one of its products was linked to a salmonella outbreak at Trader Joe's groceries.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0