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A British man weighing 22 stone (139 kilograms, 306 pounds) launched a court appeal Monday against a decision to refuse him state-funded obesity surgery because he is not fat enough. http://phys.org/news229597592.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:06:44 EST news229597592 Taller women who become pregnant after receiving two embryos through in-vitro fertilisation have more chance of giving birth to twins, a Dutch study presented Monday found. http://phys.org/news229013618.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:53:51 EST news229013618 (AP) -- A billion-dollar "technical revision" added to a patent bill passed by the House last week could provide huge financial benefits to one pharmaceutical company and a law firm. http://phys.org/news228628295.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 30 Jun 2011 05:17:40 EST news228628295 (AP) -- Russia is ending a blanket ban on vegetable imports from the European Union put in place over fears of E. coli infection, starting with the Netherlands and Belgium, the nation's top consumer rights watchdog said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news228462065.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:43:35 EST news228462065 It is more celebrity than respiratory, but botox could prove a breath of fresh air for asthmatics if an Australian trial of the toxin launched Tuesday is successful. http://phys.org/news228450432.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:28:36 EST news228450432 The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal request made by American tobacco companies on Monday in a class-action lawsuit that awarded 500,000 smokers a total of $270 million in damages. http://phys.org/news228410108.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:15:25 EST news228410108 (AP) -- Check into the hospital and you may get a blood transfusion you didn't really need. http://phys.org/news228409771.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:09:45 EST news228409771 As many women know, the Women's Health Initiative Study from 2002 showed that estrogen was not the dream treatment for menopausal symptoms that we once thought it was; estrogen treatment after menopause, especially when combined with a progesterone (needed for women with an intact uterus), increases a woman's risk of several diseases, including breast cancer, stroke, dementia, blood clots, and possibly lung cancer. http://phys.org/news228365129.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:20:02 EST news228365129 (AP) -- The fertility doctor who helped "Octomom" Nadya Suleman become the mother of 14 children through repeated in vitro treatments is asking that he be allowed to continue practicing medicine while he appeals his license revocation. http://phys.org/news227933000.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:43:34 EST news227933000 Japanese researchers said Tuesday they had developed a self-propelled remote controlled capsule endoscope that can "swim" through the digestive tract. http://phys.org/news227859384.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:16:38 EST news227859384 (AP) -- Writer Terry Pratchett said Tuesday that watching a man being helped to die had reaffirmed his support for assisted suicide, while anti-euthanasia groups criticized the televised death as propaganda. http://phys.org/news227260193.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:50:40 EST news227260193 The world's first mother-daughter uterus transplant could take place next year in Sweden, the head of an international research team in the western Swedish city of Gothenburg said Tuesday. http://phys.org/news227254937.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:22:31 EST news227254937 (AP) -- A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee gone berserk has received a new face in the third such operation performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to going out in public again and eating hot dogs and pizza after months of pureed food. http://phys.org/news226915880.html Medicine & Health - Other Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:12:00 EST news226915880 A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been overwhelmed by messages of support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of things she wanted to do before dying. http://phys.org/news226855215.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 09 Jun 2011 16:31:35 EST news226855215 When Aboriginal elder John Watson was bitten by a crocodile while fishing in the remote Australian Kimberley region, there was no doctor he could call, no medical kit on hand to stem the blood. http://phys.org/news226724432.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:01:13 EST news226724432 (AP) -- Karen Butler has a British-sounding accent, but she's never been to Europe. She woke up from dental surgery one day talking funny. A year and a half later her "foreign" accent remains, and her story has traveled around the world. http://phys.org/news226548921.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:15:34 EST news226548921 Less invasive catheter-based aortic valve replacement and open valve-replacement surgery have a similar one-year survival for patients at high risk for surgery. http://phys.org/news226501187.html Medicine & Health - Other Sun, 05 Jun 2011 14:03:11 EST news226501187 The fertility doctor who helped a woman give birth to octuplets in 2009 will be stripped of his license by the California Medical Board because of "gross negligence." http://phys.org/news226216088.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 02 Jun 2011 06:48:30 EST news226216088 (AP) -- Courtney Montgomery's heart was failing fast, but the 16-year-old furiously refused when her doctors, and her mother, urged a transplant. http://phys.org/news225385968.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 23 May 2011 16:13:01 EST news225385968 (AP) -- A day after surgery to repair her skull, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctor has dubbed her "gorgeous Gabby," encouraged by how she looks and is communicating after an operation considered a major milestone in her recovery from a gunshot wound. http://phys.org/news225034117.html Medicine & Health - Other Thu, 19 May 2011 14:28:52 EST news225034117 (AP) -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery isn't slowing down while her astronaut husband speeds around the Earth. http://phys.org/news224911212.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 18 May 2011 04:20:32 EST news224911212 (AP) -- A surprising study of nearly 46 million Medicare patients says older residents in rural areas are more likely to have any of nine common surgeries than people in cities. http://phys.org/news224786359.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 16 May 2011 17:40:05 EST news224786359 (AP) -- Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for nonresidents. http://phys.org/news224684944.html Medicine & Health - Other Sun, 15 May 2011 13:30:10 EST news224684944 (AP) -- The woman stands close to a mirror fingering her throat. Then, sweeping back a mane of red hair, she injects heroin into her jugular vein. A nurse keeps an eye on her from behind. http://phys.org/news224339219.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 11 May 2011 14:00:01 EST news224339219 (AP) -- The nation's first full face transplant recipient said the first thing his young daughter told him when she saw him after the operation was "Daddy, you're so handsome." http://phys.org/news224159692.html Medicine & Health - Other Mon, 09 May 2011 11:35:02 EST news224159692 (AP) -- Hundreds of boys in a Philippine city turned out Saturday for a daylong "circumcision party" to provide a safe, free procedure for a rite of passage that most local males undergo as preteens. http://phys.org/news223978333.html Medicine & Health - Other Sat, 07 May 2011 09:12:28 EST news223978333 (AP) -- A prominent former federal health official whose career was tainted by controversy over a swine flu campaign in the 1970s has died. http://phys.org/news223617272.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 03 May 2011 04:54:46 EST news223617272 (AP) -- The clinic's paperwork carried a common medical symbol - a snake coiling around a wooden rod. But that simple insignia sparked a rumor in Nairobi's largest slum: The U.S.-funded clinic was a center for snake worshipping. http://phys.org/news223139202.html Medicine & Health - Other Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:07:06 EST news223139202 In a large, traffic-congested city in China, severe heart attack patients received treatment faster and had better long-term results when interventional physicians were taken to them, according to a study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. http://phys.org/news223053808.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:23:42 EST news223053808 Inspection of medical records, case files, and legal affidavits provides compelling evidence that medical personnel who treated detainees at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) failed to inquire and/or document causes of physical injuries and psychological symptoms they observed in the detainees, according to a paper published this week in PLoS Medicine. Vincent Iacopino, Senior Medical Advisor for Physician for Human Rights, and Brigadier General (Ret) Stephen Xenakis, U.S. Army, reviewed GTMO medical records and relevant case files of nine individuals, looking for evidence of torture and ill treatment and its documentation by medical personnel. http://phys.org/news223044166.html Medicine & Health - Other Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:43:05 EST news223044166