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Diabetics get blood vessels made from donor cells
Three dialysis patients have received the world's first blood vessels grown in a lab from donated skin cells. It's a key step toward creating a supply of ready-to-use arteries and veins that could be used ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Giffords awake, communicates after skull surgery
(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 ...
May 19, 2011 |
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Fetal surgery is more effective than operating after birth: study
Thirty years ago, the first human fetal surgery was performed at the University of California, San Francisco. Now, a randomized controlled trial has proven definitively that fetal surgery can help certain ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Infant hydrocephalus, seasonal and linked to farm animals in Uganda
Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Medical device problems hurt 70,000+ kids annually
(AP) -- More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices, and contact lenses are the leading culprit, the first detailed national estimate suggests.
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Pioneering treatment reduces disability in premature babies with serious brain hemorrhage
The research, led by Andrew Whitelaw, Professor of Neonatal Medicine at the University of Bristol, and Ian Pople, paediatric neurosurgeon at North Bristol NHS Trust, has shown that, after a haemorrhage, the fluid inside the ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 07, 2010 |
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Tiny capsules can deliver drugs to targeted cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is now possible to engineer tiny containers the size of a virus to deliver drugs and other materials with almost 100 percent efficiency to targeted cells in the bloodstream.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Blood vessels made from patients' cells
(AP) -- Scientists have grown blood vessels for kidney patients from their own cells, making it easier and safer for them to use dialysis machines, a new study says.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Device could filter cancer cells from blood
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new tactic in the fight against cancer, Cornell researcher Michael King has developed what he calls a lethal "lint brush" for the blood -- a tiny, implantable device that captures and ...
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Antimicrobial sutures reduce infections in brain shunt surgery, study finds
Children born with hydrocephalus, or "water on the brain" must have shunts implanted to drain the fluid away from the brain to reduce harmful pressure.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 25, 2008 |
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