Health
Smoggy days may raise your odds for burst appendix
(HealthDay)—Add another possible health woe to the negative effects of air pollution: A new study suggests that the risk of a burst appendix rises on smoggy days.
Jul 11, 2013
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Surgery
Complications more likely with emergency gallbladder surgery: study
(HealthDay)—Emergency gallbladder surgery carries a higher risk of complications than planned surgery, a new study finds.
Jul 3, 2013
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Surgery
Gettysburg offers lessons on battlefield medicine
(AP)—As gunshots ravaged the bodies of tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg 150 years ago, military doctors responded with a method of treatment that is still the foundation of combat medicine today.
Jun 23, 2013
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Surgery
Rates of emergency bowel surgery vary wildly from state to state
Johns Hopkins researchers have documented huge and somewhat puzzling interstate variations in the percentage of emergency versus elective bowel surgeries. Figuring out precisely why the differences occur is critical, they ...
Jun 4, 2013
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Surgery
Study looks at sports-related facial fractures in kids
Facial fractures are relatively common, and potentially serious, sports-related injuries among children participating in a wide range of sports, according to a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
May 29, 2013
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Surgery
New research finds hernia surgery offers value for money
New research suggesting that elective hernia surgery offers value-for-money and improved quality of life for patients has been published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The new analysis is based on patients' ...
May 29, 2013
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Medications
Bayer profits up 11.5 percent on new drugs
German chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer AG said Thursday that its net profit rose 11.5 percent in the first quarter as new drugs, led by blood thinner Xarelto, boosted sales.
Apr 25, 2013
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Pediatrics
Small, high-powered magnets hazardous to kids remain on market
Last summer Kelly Bruski went to the store with her sons to buy a birthday gift for her boyfriend. When the boys, now 6 and 9, chose a magnet desk-toy called Buckyballs, "I saw they were really picking out a gift for themselves," ...
Apr 17, 2013
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Other
Anaesthetists' research network to create buzz at national conference
A research network established by a network of training anaesthetists in the South West of England, and which in just nine months has become one of the most successful of its kind in the UK, is set to create a buzz at the ...
Apr 3, 2013
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Cardiology
Angioplasty at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery safe, effective
Non-emergency angioplasty performed at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery capability is no less safe and effective than angioplasty performed at hospitals with cardiac surgery services, according to research presented ...
Mar 11, 2013
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