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Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0




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Long-term study: Robot-assisted prostate surgery is safe

In the first study of its kind, urologists and biostatisticians at Henry Ford Hospital have found that robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is safe over the long term, with a major complication rate ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanoparticles increase survival after blood loss

In an advance that could improve battlefield and trauma care, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to improve survival after life-threatening ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fluorescent peptides help nerves glow in surgery

Accidental damage to thin or buried nerves during surgery can have severe consequences, from chronic pain to permanent paralysis. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may have found a remedy: ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Prostate cancer patients treated with robotic-assisted surgery can expect low recurrence of cancer

A first-ever, long-term study of patients who underwent robot-assisted surgery to remove their cancerous prostates found that nearly 87 percent of them had no recurrence of the disease after five years.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Gene variations that alter key enzyme linked to prostate cancer

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found that variations in a gene for an enzyme involved in cell energy metabolism appear to increase the risk for prostate cancer.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The Medical Minute: Treatment options for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer develops in the glandular tissue of the male prostate, a reproductive gland situated below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The urinary sphincter (muscle that controls the flow of urine) is situated ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Diabetes now tops Vietnam vets' claims

(AP) -- By his own reckoning, a Navy electrician spent just eight hours in Vietnam, during a layover on his flight back to the U.S. in 1966. He bought some cigarettes and snapped a few photos.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein could heal erectile dysfunction after cancer surgery

After men have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, up to 80 percent of them will lose the ability to have an erection because of damage to a critical nerve that runs along the prostate.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New study examines hearing loss, Viagra use

Research by a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor shows an association between hearing loss and the use of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 18, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Identifying molecular targets for diabetes-related ED

Erectile dysfunction is one of the most prevalent diabetes-induced complications in men; current estimates suggest that as many as 75% of men with diabetes will develop some degree of ED, and in many cases diabetics develop ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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