Medical Science

What is a Gastric Bypass? Gastric Bypass surgery is a commonly known weight loss procedure designed for people who are suffering from excessive weight or morbid obesity, especially for individuals who have undergone normal measures of losing weight but have…
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Gastric bypass bariatric surgery is an operation developed to rearrange the human anatomy in order to assist the morbidly obese patient to lose weight in order to live a healthier and more productive life. The operation in itself is a…
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Thomas Webster, an associate professor at the Divisions of Engineering and Orthopedic Surgery at Brown, has created a nanomaterial that can be injected into the human body. Once the material reaches body temperature it rapidly hardens into a substance like…
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The pain of gallstones may make someone run to the surgeon, but the consequences may warrant additional thought. All surgeries have consequences. My Story I suffered from a lot of gas and started changing eating habits to low fat diets…
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The surgical suite, also called the operating room is a mysterious and fascinating arena. This is where a patient usually encounters their surgical experience. This is where the surgical care givers wear masks and work behind closed doors. So, would…
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Stents vary in size and material based on their intended use. Though wire mesh cardiac stents implanted into arteries are the most common technology that comes to mind, the basic concept of stenting can be used in a number of…
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Why would a smoker want to have bypass surgery (bypass surgery means surgery so blood can flow around a blockage in a main or in many main arteries) if s/he smokes? So the person can die of cancer later on?…
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Stents are metal or fabric tubes inserted in weakened arteries in the body to hold the arteries open to restore normal blood flow (Stoller & Meng, 2007). Stents are more popularly and commonly associated with weakened coronary arteries resolved with…
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2010 ended as a year of astounding breakthroughs in virtually all the sciences. The science of biology led the way with one stupendous breakthrough and revelation after another. So fast a pace did the breakneck breakthroughs occur that often it…
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REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY, Winstom Salem, N. C.. This is an article you do not want to miss! NEWSWEEK, May 19, 2008, by ANNE UNDERWOOD. (Go to Newsweek, type in regenerative medicine and the article will come up, (id/136309)…
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