Medical Science

 Injuries, disease causing total vision loss and pain and infections are some of the reasons why eyes are removed. Glaucoma is one of the top reasons for vision loss that results in the eye being removed. But doctors will not…
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Limb amputation is a dreadful experience for the one who undergoes such operations although it is most likely to save the life of that person. It is a surgery performed at various levels depending on the indications for its application….
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Postoperative vomiting is a common occurrence in about 20 – 30% of the surgical patients and it may range from a mild nausea to a severe vomiting which can lead to serious consequences or to a prolonged hospital stay in…
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Hysterectomy is the process in which the uterus is removed through a surgical procedure. It can be performed through two different methods and these are the abdominal hysterectomy and vaginal hysterectomy. In many centers performing hysterectomies, the preferred surgical approach…
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Knee replacement surgery is a common joint replacement surgery performed in the United States and according to statistics over 550,000 knee replacements are done each year. Also known as knee arthroplasty, knee replacement surgery involves replacement of damaged, worn off…
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Von Hippel Lindau Syndrome, named for the two doctors who discovered the syndrome, affects one in every 32,000 children born in the United States of America alone. The disease causes the infected person to produce tumors in areas of their body…
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Total joint replacement programs are growing in size and capabilities to help people with damaged joints get back to doing the things they love. New surgical techniques are improving the prospects for those needing joint replacement. Twenty years ago it…
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The earliest finding of surgery was discovered in Keiv, Ukraine. A scull dating back to 7300 6220 B. C. was found to have holes drilled into the skull bone. This procedure called trephining was common in the early days to…
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Bariatric surgery is a procedure which is becoming rapidly popular especially among those suffering from morbid obesity as in the case of BMI more than 40. It is a surgery which requires extensive post operative care and behavioral modifications. Unless…
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We live in a culture where insurance companies are trying to deny health insurance coverage to people who smoke and to people who have a BMI or Body Mass Index of over 30. And now, I see this topic of:…
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