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While women are 12 times more likely than men to suffer from bladder problems recent studies of bladder difficulties were performed in an Army Veteran's Hospital and thereby excluded women, she said...
...reason for the surging popularity of videoscope surgery is simple: correctly performed, it can dramatically reduce surgical trauma. Since 1987, when the first diseased gall bladder was removed in this fashion, rave reviews from patients have made it almost rare for a gall bladder to be removed the old-fashioned way. And for good reason. "Before," says Dr. Eddie Joe Reddick, a retired Nashville surgeon credited with popularizing the technique, "we were committing assault and battery on our patients. It wasn't what we did to their insides, but what we did in order to get there that...
Might enthusiasm for videoscopes be in danger of outrunning common sense? In the past four years, 28,000 U.S. surgeons have learned how to remove gall bladders laparoscopically. "That may be too quick," acknowledges Dr. Nathaniel Soper, a general surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, since laparoscopic surgery takes considerable practice. Currently, for . instance, laparoscopic gall-bladder removal appears to carry a slightly elevated risk of bile-duct injury, but the injuries seem to be concentrated in the first operations a surgeon performs. For this reason, medical societies have begun drawing up training standards that direct novices to practice...
...Technically, it's inaccurate to suggest that I ran," he said in an interview from party headquarters, his Maplewood, N.J., home. "I'd say I strolled. I run only to the bathroom. I've got a little bladder problem, you see. I like my beer, but I just can't hold it. You know, I've heard the reason beer runs through your body so fast is that it doesn't have to change color. But that's a story for another...
...prevent the growths. So far, research has shown a pronounced effect on mice; preliminary studies are being carried out on 50 women who are at high risk for such cancers. Broccoli and its relatives also contain beta carotene, a substance that could help ward off lung, throat and bladder cancer. The same compound may also reduce the risk of heart attack. Researchers at Harvard Medical School report that men with clogged arteries who were fed beta carotene supplements suffered half as many heart seizures and strokes as did men given placebo pills...