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Doctors sometimes let patients suffering from chronic pain self-administer prescribed doses of intravenous drugs. But those patients have always had to be tethered to an IV and drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a...
It is rough on a man's pride to be a patient. Even after you get into your Extremely Late 40s, a life phase that lasts until 70 or so, you maintain a certain manly sense of yourself (He jumps! He shoots! He scores!), but now, taking a slow postoperative...
ROTO-ROOTER It took a study of 62,000 patients to confirm what many cardiologists already suspected: when it comes to heart attacks, angioplasties save more lives than clot-busting drugs. Both treatments aim to clear arterial blockages that deprive the heart of oxygen. But the odds of dying in...
The odds were against little Keone Penn from the start. Born with the most severe form of sickle-cell anemia, a hereditary blood disorder that afflicts more than 70,000 Americans, most of them of African descent, he experienced repeated episodes of racking pain and high fever as brittle, sickle...
There are risks. Recombinant pro-urokinase, like TPA, increases the chances of dangerous bleeding in the brain. And the treatment requires a doctor with great skill at threading a catheter into the brain.