WW1 surgeons could do little for amputees' pain—and treatment remains a challenge
Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.
Nov 6, 2014
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Army doctors in the First World War were helpless to stop soldiers who lost limbs from suffering in pain, according to researchers.
Nov 6, 2014
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UT Arlington researchers have been awarded a $744,300 grant from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthapaedic Research Program to create an adaptive interface that fits between a prosthetic and a patient's limb so ...
Oct 9, 2014
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A child in the northeastern US state of Rhode Island has become the first to die from an ongoing outbreak of a respiratory virus, enterovirus D68, health officials said Wednesday.
Oct 1, 2014
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(AP)—Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.
Sep 27, 2014
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An ortho-oncology team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center successfully adapted a shoulder surgical aid (the Spider Limb Positioner) to conduct a left hip disarticulation on a melanoma patient as described ...
Sep 8, 2014
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For survivors of severe combat injuries threatening more than one limb, reconstructive surgical procedures using tissue flaps have a good record of safety and effectiveness in avoiding amputation, reports a paper in the August ...
Jul 30, 2014
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The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by University College London researchers in a bid to apply it to humans.
Jun 19, 2014
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(HealthDay)—Female patients undergoing lower extremity (LE)-peripheral vascular intervention (PVI) are at increased risk for adverse outcomes, but have similar procedural success as men, according to a study published online ...
May 15, 2014
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Women face greater limits on their lifestyle and have more severe symptoms as a result of peripheral artery disease (PAD), but minimally invasive procedures used to unclog arteries are just as successful as in men.
May 5, 2014
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These days, Hugh Herr, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
Apr 17, 2014
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