Medical Science

Connie Culp was shot in the face with a shotgun in 2004. The culprit was her own husband Thomas Culp. Mr. Culp, who also shot himself in the face, received a seven year prison sentence for the injuries he caused…
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So you are considering to have Gastric bypass Surgery or you know someone who is. The main question is it safe?Gastric bypass surgery has two main types, the first is Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, in-short RGB. This operation is the most…
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Strictly speaking, a urethral stricture occurs when the urethra narrows, caused by disease or an injury; the urethra being the bodily tube that joins the urinary bladder to a person’s genitals – the draining system for urine to exit the body.  Problems…
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Reading this might be a temporary escape from reality. There are still people who believe that “personal responsibility” extends to every conceivable part of life, so long as that life is someone else’s. Coronary artery bypass surgery is a routine…
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What is a Radical Prostatectomy? The simplest definition of a radical prostatectomy is the surgical removal of the entire prostate. This operation is usually performed because the patient has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The diagnoses of this problem usually…
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Deciding whether or not to have gastric bypass surgery is difficult. Potential patients and their doctors must balance risk and reward. Research from The Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative says that one half of one percent of bariatric(weight loss) surgery patients…
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Diabetes is a condition that used to mean a lifetime of inconvenience and possible early death; however, in recent years the treatment of diabetes has been greatly simplified and improved, resulting in fewer and fewer complications and deaths. The key…
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I am the person you wanted to kill last month. On May 25, I had a quadruple bypass operation. It is probable that it was the result of my having smoked for 46 years. Mind you, there have been other,…
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The ROADMAP trial, or Randomized Olmesartan and Diabetes Microalbuminuria Prevention study, was conducted from 2004 to 2009 by clinical researchers in the United States, Germany, Japan, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Spain, and England. The investigators examined and followed nearly 4500…
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Finally, your doctor has sent you to a specialist and the decision has been made that there is no alternative but to do a total knee replacement. The scenario is likely preceded by bone on bone arthritis, a tissue injury…
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