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  • August 2007

    • Weight-Loss Surgery Can End Diabetes

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 22, 07 10:52 AM CDT

      Weight-Loss Surgery Can End Diabetes

      (Newser) - Surgery that shrinks stomachs and reroutes intestines can make diabetes disappear—but some worry the procedure is the wrong one for the disease. More than three of four diabetics who undergo bariatric surgery are left with no symptoms, and can even live without insulin. But docs are concerned about complications like nutritional deficiency—and remission is possible in some cases, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      health  • obesity  • surgery  • diabetes  • insulin  • intestines

    • Site Sells Shares in Boob Jobs

      Yahoo!  |  Aug 17, 07 2:51 PM CDT

      Site Sells Shares in Boob Jobs

      (Newser) - Web entrepreneur Jason Grunstra says his site is just a service connecting people with similar interests. The interest happens to be breasts, and the site connects those who like to look at them with those who'd like to have theirs enlarged. Women upload pictures of themselves, hoping to attract “benefactors” who will contribute to the cost of their implants, in exchange for a peek at the goods, Yahoo reports. More »

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      women  • Las Vegas  • prostitution  • surgery  • website  • pornography  • cosmetic surgery  • breast implants

    • Simple Technique Could Bypass Cardiac Arrest

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 17, 07 1:55 AM CDT

      Simple Technique Could Bypass Cardiac Arrest

      (Newser) - A simple technique temporarily restricting the arm's blood supply before heart bypass surgery significantly improves the chances of a full recovery—and could one day be used to prevent cardiac arrest, reports the Guardian . The technique uses cycles of arm compressions with cuffs to remotely restrict  blood flow to the heart. More »

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      heart disease  • surgery  • heart attack  • heart  • cardiac arrest

    • Breast Implants Linked to Triple Suicide Rate

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 8, 07 6:55 AM CDT

      Breast Implants Linked to Triple Suicide Rate

      (Newser) - Women with breast-enlarging implants have a suicide rate three times higher than average,  a new medical study has found. Deaths linked to mental problems, such as alcohol abuse, were also three times higher among women undergoing the increasingly popular cosmetic procedure, the Los Angeles Times reports . Suicides rose sharply after the first decade following surgery. More »

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      suicide  • depression  • surgery  • cosmetic surgery  • beauty  • breast implants  • suicide rate

    • Woman Has Pencil Removed From Brain After 55 Years

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 7, 07 5:52 PM CDT

      Woman Has Pencil Removed From Brain After 55 Years

      (Newser) - A German woman had a pencil removed from her brain after living with it for 55 years. Margret Wegner fell down while holding a pencil when she was four years old, jamming it into her brain and leading to a lifetime of headaches and nosebleeds. Surgeons finally removed most of the writing implement, but the pencil proved mightier than the scalpel—the tip was too tightly lodged to dislodge. More »

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      Germany  • surgery  • brain  • weird

  • July 2007

    • Docs Replace Cheney's Heart Implant

      Associated Press  |  Jul 29, 07 8:15 AM CDT

      Docs Replace Cheney's Heart Implant

      (Newser) - Doctors have replaced Dick Cheney's defibrillator "without complication," a spokeswoman for the VP says. A checkup last month revealed that the battery in the 6-year-old cardiac implant was running low, and yesterday doctors performed a routine procedure to swap out the power source without affecting the wires that connect to the heart, the AP reports. More »

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      Dick Cheney  • vice president  • surgery  • heart attack  • heart  • defibrillator

  • June 2007

    • Teen Performs C-Section in Bid for Record

      BBC  |  Jun 21, 07 2:21 PM CDT

      Teen Performs C-Section in Bid for Record

      (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  • doctor  • teenagers  • surgery  • record  • Guinness Book of World Records

    • TB Patient Preps for Surgery

      Associated Press  |  Jun 15, 07 3:42 PM CDT

      TB Patient Preps for Surgery

      (Newser) - The TB traveler will go under the knife to remove a tennis-ball sized area of infected lung tissue, his doctors said today. Andrew Speaker, who triggered an international health crisis last month when he took a transatlantic flight while infected with an extremely drug-resistant strain of TB, will undergo surgery in July. More »

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      health  • surgery  • infection  • Tuberculosis  • Andrew Speaker

    • Stem Cell Cure for Blindness in Sight

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 6, 07 6:45 AM CDT

      Stem Cell Cure for Blindness in Sight

      (Newser) - A pioneering stem cell technique developed by British scientists and backed by an anonymous American benefactor could soon cure blindness in millions of people suffering from macular degeneration, the Daily Mail reports. The procedure involves injecting lab-grown embryonic stem cells into the back of an affected eye to repair the damaged area. More »

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      surgery  • stem cells  • blindness  • eyes  • macular degeneration

    • UK to Patients Who Smoke: Put That Out

      Daily Mail (UK)  |  Jun 4, 07 3:49 PM CDT

      UK to Patients Who Smoke: Put That Out

      (Newser) - Smokers in Britain must kick the habit for at least four weeks before undergoing routine surgery or the National Health Service will deny them the operations, the Daily Mail reports. Doctors will use blood tests to enforce the new policy, which could affect up to 500,000 smokers awaiting procedures for non-life-threatening conditions each year. More »

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      health  • Great Britain  • medicine  • England  • smoking  • surgery  • smoking ban  • patient

  • May 2007

    • Pavano's Days in Pinstripes Likely Over

      MLB.com  |  May 24, 07 5:31 AM CDT

      Pavano's Days in Pinstripes Likely Over

      (Newser) - After soliciting four doctors' opinions, Yankees pitcher Carl Pavano will likely undergo surgery to repair ligaments in his pitching elbow, putting him out of commission through the end of the 2008 season and his four-year contract with New York.  Pavano had already missed a year and a half due to injuries to the shoulder, back, ribs, elbow, and buttocks. More »

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      MLB  • baseball  • New York Yankees  • surgery  • injury

  • April 2007

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