TOP 100 HEALTH AND MEDICAL SITES
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| Study backs new heart valve without cracking chest By LAURAN NEERGAARD 2010-09-23T03:01:52ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of older Americans who need new heart valves but are too frail to survive the surgery might soon get a chance at an easier option - a way to thread in an artificial aortic valve without cracking their chests.... hosted.ap.org |
Rabies: the threat to travellers After being bitten by a Mexican coati, Helen Brown became the butt of nurses' rabies jokes, but her case highlighted a lack of knowledge about the disease among Britain's hospital staff. telegraph.co.uk |
Vital Signs: Surgical Errors Continue Despite Protocols Though hospitals must follow a standard set of procedures, researchers found “catastrophic events” like a chest tube being put into the wrong lung, a healthy ovary being removed and the wrong vertebrae being fused. feeds.nytimes.com |
Cholera outbreak reaches Haiti capital Five cases of cholera have been detected in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, UN and Haitians officials said have said, raising concern over the spread of an epidemic that has killed over 200 people so far. abc.net.au |
Quit smoking with your mobile phone A RESEARCHER is looking at novel ways people can quit smoking involving text messages news.com.au |