Sunday, August 21, 2005 A robotic system at Stanford Medical Center was used to perform a laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully with a theoretically similar rate of complications to that seen in standard operations. However, as there were only 10 people in the experimental group (and another 10 in the control group), this is not…
Knowing The Myths About Contracting Blood Borne Pathogens}
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Virtual Mental Healthcare For International Students Submitted by: Greg Garner Microorganisms that live in the bloodstream of humans are called blood borne pathogens. They are a major cause of various types of illness and disease in humans. They can be transmitted through exposure to contaminated blood. If even…
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Vandals deface family crypt of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Sunday, April 27, 2008 A woman in the tiny farming community of Saint-Rémi, Quebec, south of Montreal visited the local cemetery Saturday and received a rude shock. Graffitied on former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Eliott Trudeau’s family crypt were “FLQ“, the initials of the Front de libération du Québec and the French words for “traitor”…
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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant
Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye.…
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Artists erect giant bunny on Italian mountainside
Monday, September 19, 2005 Gelitin, a group of artists from Vienna, has erected a pink bunny measuring 200 feet in length (about 60 metres) on the side of a northern Italian mountain. The artwork, titled “Hase” (which translates simply as “Hare”), is located at a height of 1600m on the mountain Colletto Fava, close to…
Cosmetic Enhancement Tips: The 411 On Dermal Fillers
Click Here For More Specific Information On: Plastic Surgeon Fort Worth Texas By Rena Graham Back in the days when you talk about erasing your wrinkles or enhancing the face to make it look younger, the only way that you can do it is through surgical intervention. But the good thing with science is that…
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Markets dragged down by credit crisis
Friday, August 10, 2007 Global stock markets fell today, in a mass sell-off stemming from the sub-prime mortgage crisis in the United States. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rebounded late in the day after falling more than 250 points, ending the day down about 31 points. The UK’s FTSE-100 index fell 232.90 points to 6038.30,…
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Category:Health
This is the category for Health. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 9 September 2022: Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster in Ohio, US permanently closed following serious accident 6 September 2022: Texas identifies first death involving monkeypox 11 July 2022: Virginia reports suspected monkeypox case 17 May 2022: Bans off Our Bodies protests…
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South Korea: Fire in hospital housing elderly people kills at least 37
Friday, January 26, 2018 Fire broke out on Friday morning and destroyed the bottom two floors of a six-story hospital in Miryang, South Korea, killing at least 37 people, most of them elderly. More than a hundred injuries were reported, with eighteen people in critical condition. This is the highest death toll from fire in…