Many individuals have operations performed at university hospitals, whether they plan their surgery with that in mind or not. All hospitals associated with a university are teaching hospitals. The majorit of medical care you receive at a teaching hospital will…
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My father was diagnosed with a diseased liver when I was in elementary school. My family and I knew that a liver transplant was in his future, and the idea at first was a calming one. We thought that a…
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Wow, talk about a slippery slope. Should anyone be denied life because they made bad health choices? Now, before I get on my little soapbox here, let me first state that I don’t like the fact that our income is…
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Imagine that you have the ability to feel an object, its geometry, texture, and hardness, without actually physically touching the object. Suppose you are feeling the object over a very long distance. Is this possible? There is research in the…
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In an ideal world children would not be getting themselves into the position of being obese in the first place, but as statistics seem to indicate the opposite is true, with ever-increasing numbers of children being classed as overweight or…
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Ultrasound is very high frequency sound, so high that human ears cannot hear it. It is used to make images of bodily organs, and especially of fetuses, because ultrasound images, sonograms, can be made without exposing a patient to radiation…
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The military has had an interest in medicine since the first cavemen fought over a good cave. For most of the history of man on this planet, more soldiers died of disease than from wounds of any sort. As we…
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Driven by his 7-year-old son’s daily blood sugar tests and insulin injections to counter type 1 diabetes, the co-founder of internet sites CitySearch and Overture (formerly GoTo), Jeffrey Brewer, has taken a new approach to the insulin pump approved in…
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Some day in the not-too-distant-future you might need a new kidney, or perhaps a new liver. If you do, a doctor will be able to scan your DNA, enter some parameters into a computer and then ‘print out’ your new…
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About a month ago, sitting outside our cabin at camp, three close friends and I debated this very subject. We were prompted by a book I had found called “The Book of Questions,” written to stimulate both individual reflection and…
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