The recent kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico highlights a common practice for many people in the U.S.: traveling to other countries for medical care that either is not available at home or costs a lot less.
Mar 8, 2023
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Certain types of ear malformations in infants can be treated by a simple and inexpensive technique—using paper clips to build custom splints to mold the shape of the growing ear, reports a study in the Journal of Craniofacial ...
Mar 2, 2023
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Dominique Tremblay and Élie Boghossian, plastic surgeons at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital (MRH) and researchers at the the Université de Montréal Faculty of Medicine, have developed a new approach to nerve transfer that ...
Mar 2, 2023
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Demographic factors including low income and living in a rural area are linked to low telemedicine literacy—which may limit access to plastic surgeons and other healthcare providers at a time of expanding use of telehealth ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Plastic surgery procedures performed to correct cleft lip and palate deformities in infants and children are economically undervalued, relative to pediatric craniofacial procedures, concludes an analysis in the March issue ...
Feb 24, 2023
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A Macquarie University study of breast implants gone wrong has found that patients with complications occurring within five years of implantation were twice as likely to have used non-certified surgeons.
Feb 13, 2023
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It is now widely understood that cancer is a disease of acquired defects in genes and gene function. An article published Feb. 9 in Science, and authored by Andrew Feinberg, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...
Feb 10, 2023
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Anyone who has ever had a night of poor sleep or no sleep at all knows how much the lack of sleep can affect concentration the next day. Researchers at the Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors ...
Feb 7, 2023
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Doctors have no map for how to separate conjoined twins.
Jan 31, 2023
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Chronic pain often leads to depression, which increases suffering and is clinically difficult to treat. Now, for the first time, researchers have uncovered the underlying mechanism that drives those depressive systems, according ...
Jan 30, 2023
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