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...Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with radioactive pellets to fight a malignancy. He could live, or maybe not. Meanwhile, there's no end of searching for a place to relieve his bladder...
...inflammation connection. The most powerful anti-inflammatory drugs we have are the corticosteroids like prednisone. They have too many side effects to be first-line arthritis drugs but many folks have to take them for other reasons. These patients might find them actually too effective against pain. Appendicitis, gall bladder disease or even bowel infarctions can occur in these patients without them feeling any pain at all. This is very dangerous - the pain of early appendicitis is a good thing; it saves lives by bringing patients to the doctor before they start to die of abdominal infection...
Researchers announced Tuesday the successful integration of laboratory-grown urinary bladders into patients, signalling a breakthrough in a field beset with hardship and controversy. According to a report released by the British journal The Lancet, scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School used cell samples of a patient’s bladder to re-grow the full-sized organ before surgically inserting it above the old one. “This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs,” said Anthony Atala, director...
...women over 35 believed to have them. But this much is certain: fibroids cause an awful lot of misery. Although many fibroids remain small and symptomless, the benign tumors can grow to the size of grapefruits or even cantaloupes. Women with large fibroids often experience unrelenting pressure on the bladder and menstrual bleeding heavy enough to cause anemia. Fibroids are the reason for 30% of the 600,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the U.S. and 30,000 myomectomies, surgeries that remove the tumors but leave the uterus intact...
...worldwide have been treated with FUS so far, and there are drawbacks. Some large fibroids may not shrink more than 10% after treatment, and fibroids can grow back in some cases. Women with fibroids that are too numerous, too large or too close to the kidney and bladder (which may be damaged by the heat) are not candidates for FUS, nor are women who plan to get pregnant; the effects on fertility are unknown. Cost is another issue. The procedure runs from $8,500 to $12,000 and is covered by insurance only on a case-by-case basis...