Surgery

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Surgery Risk For 'Perfect Vaginas'

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Women's Issues, Body Image, Women's Health, Surgery, Health, Labioplasty, Vagina, Cosmetic Surgery, Living News

Women are undergoing surgery to create perfect genitalia amid a "shocking" lack of information on the potential risks of the procedure, a report says....

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Heart Disease: A Toothless Paper Tiger That Need Never Exist

Kathy Freston | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Heart Disease, Health, Surgery, Prevention, Nutrition, Plant-Based Diet, Health Care, Living News

I have sought to understand the link between diet and the dreaded diseases that are prevalent in our culture. Following is a fascinating conversation I had on diet and heart health.

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Surgery Offers New Hope For Victims of Female Genital Mutilation

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Clitoralplasty, Marci Bowers, Surgery, Female Genital Mutilation, Impact News

Sila Folow was an 8-year-old girl living in Mali when four elderly women used a sharp blade to cut out her clitoris and most of her labia. Luckily fo...

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Rotator Cuff Problems Don't Just Affect Pitchers...

Dr. Josh Dines and Dr. Rock Positano | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Disabled List, Sports Injuries, Baseball, Surgery, Rotator Cuff Tears, San Francisco Giants, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Sports Medicine, Living News

90 to 95% of people undergoing surgery for rotator cuff tears typically have good to excellent outcomes. The results for professional baseball players, however, have been less promising.

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Janice McCall, Ill. Woman, Dies After Catching Fire During Surgery

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 09.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Janice McCall, Fire During Surgery, Janice McCall Surgery, Surgery, Chicago News

ST. LOUIS — A southern Illinois woman died after being severely burned in a flash fire while undergoing surgery, a rare but vexing dilemma in op...

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Cheney Spine Surgery: Former VP In Hospital

AP | Frances Kerry | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Back Surgery, Lumbar Spinal Stenosis, Dick Cheney Surgery, Dick Cheney Back Surgery, Surgery, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney underwent elective back surgery Thursday, a procedure his office said "went well." "He is having...

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My Brain and the Ontario Health Care System

Paul E. Barber | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Waiting Times, Canadian Health Care, Obamacare, Surgery, Brain Tumor, Canadian Health Care System, Ontario Health Care System, CAT Scan, Neurologists, Gp, Politics News

The complaints directed at Canada's health care system about waiting times for treatment are without foundation. My experience -- I was treated for a brain tumor in 2004 -- says quite the opposite.

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Doctors Create New Nose For Woman By Growing It On Her Arm (VIDEO)

Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Video, Surgery, Health, Nose Surgery, Growing New Nose on Your Arm, Nose Surgery Video, Medicine, Living News

Fox News has an uplifting report about how doctors were able to create a new nose for a woman from Guyana by first growing it on her arm. The young w...

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Our Health Care System Does Not Need Fixing

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Dying, Surgery, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Health, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News

Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.

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Plastic Surgery On The Rise In Iraq

Los Angeles Times | Caesar Ahmed | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style

Read More: Plastic Surgery, Surgery, Rhinoplasty, Iraq, Cosmetic Surgery, Nose Job, Botox, Style News

There was a time when Baghdad's reconstructive surgeons were rushed off their feet trying to repair the terrible disfigurements caused by war. These ...

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How MRI is Being Used to Identify Early Signs of Osteoarthritis

Helene Pavlov | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Insurance, Surgery, Hospital, X-Ray, Potter, Pavlov, Mri, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, Living News

Osteoarthritis is a major health and economic concern, with costs in the US of at least $15.5 billion per year. Worldwide, osteoarthritis has a greater impact on health than diabetes, asthma or HIV.

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Addressing The Stigma That Surrounds The Overweight

The Atlantic Food Channel | Samuel T. Stanley | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Surgery, Personal Health, Health, Fat, Gastric-Bypass, Indentity, Wellness, Overweight, Living News

It was around the time of my sister's college graduation when I realized that I could no longer hide the fact that I had lost a significant amount of ...

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Thank You, Bill Maher, For Asking Where in the World is Barack Obama and What is He Going To Do About Healthcare?

Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Debt, Socialized-Medicine, Car Accidents, America, Restless Leg Syndrome, Exposure to Chemicals, Lobbyists, Cheney, President Obama, Donald Rumsfeld, Restless-Leg-Syndrome, Fat, Health Insurance, The Matrix, Dick Cheney, Television, National Debt, Insurance, Vice President Dick Cheney, Washington, Universal Health Care, Cheney Torture, President Bush, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Vice President, Michelle Obama, Lindsay Lohan, Bankruptcy, Lobbying, Surgery, Washington DC, The-Matrix, Chemicals, Capitalism, Kodak, Don Rumsfeld, Toxic Chemicals, Dumb as Hell, Pharmaceutical Companies, Bill Maher, Pharmaceutical Industry, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Health, Caveat Emptor, Prescription Drugs, Doctors, Florida, Prescription Medication, Vice President Cheney, Politics News

Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.

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Relying on the Kindness of Strangers

Leslie Goldman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Carpal Tunnel, Strangers, Surgery, Good Samaritan, Living News

As I walked around town looking generally pathetic with my hand wrapped in a giant cloud of gauze, I was pleasantly surprised at how quick strangers were to help me.

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Dueling Docs

Janice Horowitz | Posted 02.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Stomach Stapling, Weight Loss, Doctors, Weight, Weight Control, Television, Losing Weight, Surgery, Exercise, Health, The Biggest Loser, Food, Fat, Nbc, Living News

Most stomach-stapling patients lose 3/4 of their extra weight within 12 months. However, complications will strike a quarter of people who have the surgery and one in every 200 will die from it.

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Hollywood's Special Glow

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Quantum of Solace, Entertainment, Surgery, Film, Soul Plane, Minority Report, First Face Transplant, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Movies, US First Face Transplant, Plastic Surgery, Face Transplant, Battlefield Earth, Cosmetic Surgery, Hollywood, Entertainment News

We've already seen Junior, the great career-defining work of the esteemed Californian governor, played out in real life.

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First Face Transplant In US Successfully Completed In Cleveland

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 01.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Surgery, First Face Transplant, Cleveland, Face Transplant, Ohio, Home News

CLEVELAND — A woman so horribly disfigured she was willing to risk her life to do something about it has undergone the nation's first near-total...

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Buddy Can You Spare Some Botox?

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 12.07.2008 | Style

Read More: Dermatolologist, Plastic, Fillers, Anti-Aging, Surgery, Economy, Botox, Style News

Botox is better than money in the bank for regular users. But the new economic reality has forced some patients to cut back on treatments and stretch out the interval between them.

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The 1% Solution: A Story of Modern Medicine

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Exercise, Surgery, Adverse Drug Effects, Detox, Meditation, Medicine, Life Force, United States, Health, Nutrition, Mri, Diet, Balanced Life, Digestive Tract, McCombs Plan, X-Ray, Living News

As anyone who "practices" as a doctor knows that what they are being asked to do on a daily basis is somewhat of a miraculous task.

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Scarless Surgery Uses Body's Own Openings

Washington Post | Rob Stein | Posted 10.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Scarless Operations, Surgery, Scarless Surgery, Living News

When Albert Pagliuca got gallstones, his surgeon offered to remove his gallbladder with a new operation designed to hurt less, get him back to work mo...

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Head Trip: Who Do You Trust When Your Child's Surgeons Give Conflicting Advice?

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Pediatricians, Head, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Brain, Surgery, Headaches, Chiari Malformation, Children, Arnold Chiari, Brain Surgery, Childrens Hospital, Children's Health, Surgeon, Columbia-Presbyterian, Living News

Like any father, I wish I could take my son's place in all of life's harrowing rides, but I settle for what I can do: sit close, hold his hand, and tighten his buckle.

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Ted Kennedy Undergoes Surgery To Repair Blocked Artery

AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Kennedy, Surgery, Edward Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent surgery Friday to repair a partially blocked artery in his neck, which was discovered during an examination of a deca...

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