Robotic Assisted Neck Surgery Spares Incision, Scar Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago have performed an innovative robotic-assisted procedure to remove parathyroid glands without an incision or scar on the patient's neck. Bilal Akbar, 53, suffered from hyperparathyroidism caused by chronic kidney failure.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHow To Keep The Holidays Lite And Festive And Enjoy The Season Without Gaining A Pound You cast your eye on the table. Mmm… one after another, great heaping dishes of food. Comfort food. Holiday food. You dig in, savoring every bite. Now the meal is over and you are going through that terrible cycle of holiday remorse. Sure, it's great to be able to indulge in some festive food favorites, but there is always that guilt afterward. Wahida Karmally, Dr.P.H., R.D., C.D.E.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCanadian Neurologist Honored For Stroke Research Dr. Henry JM Barnett, London, Ontario, receives the Karolinska Stroke Award for Excellence in Stroke Research. The prize amounts to 100,000 SEK. The laureate will receive the prize from the President of Karolinska Institutet Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson during the Karolinska Stroke Update meeting in Stockholm November 17, 2008. Barnett is the first non-European to receive this prestigious award.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comA Bad Chain-link Reaction: How A Healthy Stomach Can Hurt You There is a cancer in the United States that isn't sneaking up on us; it's already here. Cancer of the esophagus is one of just two cancers that are increasing in this country (skin cancer is the second) and the western world. In fact, figures from the National Cancer Institute show cancer of the esophagus has gone up 400 percent since 1975.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comHow Our Brains Show Us The World As A Whole Whether we choose to admit it or not, we all experience memory errors from time to time. Research has suggested that false memory may be a result of having too many other things to remember or perhaps if too much time has passed. However, previous studies have indicated that a specific type of false memory known as "boundary extension" occurs for different reasons.
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