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Face Transplant Surgeons Plead For Privacy

British 'chequebook journalism' could jeopardize procedure

Jul 8, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors are preparing to execute Britain's first face transplant, but first they must face off with relatives of potential patients and the media eager to buy their stories, the Guardian reports. The press has fixed it eyes and nose on the upcoming operation, but surgeons say publicity for patients seeking... More »

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plastic surgery • doctor • Britain • face transplant

UK Tightens Screening of Foreign Docs

PM orders review of recruiting in wake of attempted bombings

Jul 4, 07 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - The UK is scaling up background checks on foreign doctors and other health workers in response to the revelation that eight suspects in the attempted London and Glasgow car bombings last weekend worked for the National Health Service, the Telegraph reports. PM Gordon Brown, in his first Question Time in... More »

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terrorism • United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Glasgow Airport • British terror attacks • car bomb • doctor • terrorist • Glasgow • Britain • al-Qaeda

Benoit Bought  'Excessive' Steroids

Doctor gave wrestler
10 times normal dose, feds charge

Jul 3, 07 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Over the last year Chris Benoit's doctor was prescribing the wrestler a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids every three or four weeks, the DEA said in court papers made public today. The steroids, which can cause paranoia, depression and violent outbursts, may have been a factor in the murder of... More »

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suicide • steroids • murder • murder-suicide • wrestling • Chris Benoit • WWE • doctor • Phil Astin

Teen Performs C-Section in Bid for Record

Parents may lose medical licenses; officials launch probe of surgery

Jun 21, 07 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 15-year-old in southern India performed a Cesarean section so he could make the Guinness Book of Records as the world's youngest surgeon, the BBC reports. The boy's parents, both doctors, supervised and videotaped the operation on a 20-year-old patient. They later claimed he'd only assisted in the birth. More »

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India • surgery • doctor • record • teenager • Guinness World Records

Abortion Doc's Killer Draws 2nd Life Sentence

Federal added to state term in 1998 Buffalo sniper case

Jun 20, 07 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - A militant anti-abortion activist who murdered an obstetrician was sentenced to life in prison on federal charges yesterday. James Kopp is already serving a state term of 25 years to life for the 1998 sniper-style killing of Barnett Slepian, who performed abortions. Kopp is also suspected in four other shootings... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • murder • James Kopp • sentencing • doctor • Barnett Slepian

Amazon Tribe Broods Over Poached Blood

Brazil Indians livid after discovering DNA samples sold in the US

Jun 20, 07 6:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Amazon tribe is bilious after scientists took blood samples in exchange for medicine they never got, the Times reports. Doctors collected DNA from the Karitiana Indians in the late '70s and again in 1996, and then sold it to researchers for $85 a pop. But now the once remote... More »

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medicine • genetics • disease • science • Brazil • DNA • blood • doctor • Karitiana

Vitamin D Slashes
Cancer Rates

New study ties nutrient in milk, tuna, salmon to 60% decrease

Jun 8, 07 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The first research linking vitamin D directly to cancer prevention shows the nutrient sharply reduces cancer rates in older women. Only 3% of the 1,179 women monitored while taking a combination of vitamin D and calcium developed cancer over 4 years, a 60% lower rate than those given placebos,... More »

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cancer • nutrition • breast cancer • study • research articles • tuna • salmon • fortified milk • Creighton University • Omaha • Nebraska • cells • vitamins • doctor • vitamin D

Kids Skate on Heelys to Emergency Room

Skater shoes set off scraped knees epidemic

Jun 7, 07 10:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new craze has kids gliding across hard surfaces on tiny skate wheels built into their sneakers—but the "heelys" are deceptively unsafe, a new study says. The report claims the skate shoes sent 1,600 youngsters to the emergency room last year. More »

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children • shoes • sneakers • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons • helmets • emergency room • skating • heeling • doctor • Heelys

Doctors Post Prices for Procedures

In a competitive Southern California market, a medical price war

May 28, 07 8:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of doctors in California has become the largest private practice in the country to go public with its prices for medical procedures. Breaking with the notion that price-shopping demeans professional services, HealthCare Partners posted the price of 58 common procedures, from x-rays to flu shots, on its website... More »

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health care • California • medical costs • doctor • private practice • HealthCare Partners

Kevorkian
Set to Leave
Prison Friday

'Doctor Death' will retire from mercy killing, won't stop lobbying for legalization

May 27, 07 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Kevorkian, the champion of mercy killing, will be released from prison June 1 after doing eight years for helping a Michigan man commit suicide. The 79-year-old retired pathologist spent a decade assisting terminally ill patients end their lives, using a homemade machine to administer the fatal drugs and then... More »

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prison • pain doctor • Jack Kervorkian • mercy killing • physician • assisted suicide • doctor • Oregon • painkiller • Jack Kevorkian

Doctor Guilty of al-Qaeda Pledge

May 22, 07 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Muslim doctor from Florida who was caught in an FBI sting has been convicted of conspiring to provide material support to al-Qaeda. Rafiq Sabir, 52, faces up to 30 years in prison after he swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden to an undercover agent posing as an al-Qaeda recruiter... More »

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FBI • conviction • doctor • Rafiq Sabir • conspiracy • bayat • al-Qaeda

Abortion Docs Drawn to Fight for Access

In shrinking field, they're backing up politics with action

May 22, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion doctors are an embattled bunch, harassed by activist opponents and shunned by other doctors. But a new generation of practitioners is entering the field not in spite of the obstacles, but because of them, the LA Times reports. Galvanized by the prospect of abortion rights being curtailed, they are... More »

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abortion • health • women • abortion rights • doctor • evangelicals

Psych Drugs Drove Kid Crazy

Careless prescriptions turned shy chess nerd into into belligerent hulk

May 18, 07 9:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - The careless prescription of anti-psychotic drugs, often by psychiatrists who draw pay checks from the companies who make them, has drawn attention in the New York Times recently. Now Ann Bauer, writing in Salon, draws an intimate portrait of the effects of such carelessness on one autistic teenager, who turned... More »

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medicine • health • drugs • psychiatry • schizophrenia • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • antipsychotic drugs • pharma • doctor

Doctors Paid Millions To Use Anemia Drugs

Among the world's top-selling medicines, the FDA now says they
may be unsafe

May 9, 07 8:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors are paid millions of dollars by drug companies to give their patients anemia medicine which regulators now say may be dangerous. Spurred by competiton between several similar drugs, companies reward doctors with rebates, which allow them to make a significant profit, the New York Times reports. More »

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medicine • FDA • health • pharmaceutical companies • Medicare • Anemia • drug companies • safety • doctor • Johnson and Johnson • Amgen

Docs Accused Of Hurrying Death To Harvest Organs

"They were waiting like vultures,"
the patient's sister said

Apr 12, 07 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 47-year-old man was wrongly declared brain dead by two doctors apparently eager to harvest his organs, reports the LA Times. "They were waiting like vultures, so they could scoop them up," says the patient’s daughter, Melanie Sanchez. A third doctor determined that her father, who had... More »

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health • organ harvesting • hospitals • science • patients • organ donor • transplant • organs • doctor

Doctors Are Sorry, Not Sued

New laws allow doctors to apologize

Apr 12, 07 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lawmakers in nine states want doctors to be able to say they're sorry. So-called  "I'm-sorry" laws, already on the books in 27 states, allow doctors to apologize to patients when they make mistakes, or as expressions of sympathy, without fear of litigation. More »

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health care • health • law • medical malpractice • medical errors • patients • doctor • litigation

ADD Meds Prescribed
For Weight Loss

Doctors are using Adderall for pediatric obesity, pleasing
parents but raising ethical alarms

Mar 23, 07 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pediatricians are giving Adderall, the pill that got America's kids to pay attention in class, to patients without ADHD but looking to shed extra pounds. One of the drug's side effects is appetite suppression, and "off-label" prescriptions are working for some chunky but otherwise normal teenagers. Parents worried about... More »

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obesity • medicine • ethics • ADHD • Adderall • health • children • weight loss • safety • doctor

POX
STRIKES
BACK

Chickenpox docs want second doses of vaccine—but some parents are resisting

Mar 20, 07 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors now recommend that kids get a second dose of chickenpox vaccine, but a lot of wary parents are balking. A recent study concluded that the longer patients had gone since getting the first dose, the more likely they were to contract the pox, and the more likely that it... More »

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health care • chickenpox • disease • children • Inoculation • vaccination • immunization • vaccine • doctor

Tech-Savvy Docs Get More Time With Patients

New software allows them to run "micropractices"

Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A growing number of primary care doctors are opting out of hospitals and big medical groups to open up mom 'n' pop doc shops. Key to these "micropractices,"  reports the Wall Street Journal, is technology that allows doctors to schedule their own appointments, order prescriptions, and process... More »

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medicine • health care • technology • health care costs • health • micropractice • doctor

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