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...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 of the Institute for Regenerative...
...group of patients was informed they were being prayed for, and the other group was not informed either way. The third group’s members did not have strangers pray for them and were also not informed either way. The strangers making the prayers were given a patient??s first name and last initial and were told to pray for a quick recovery with no complications. Fifty-nine percent of the people who knew they were being prayed for had complications after surgery, while 52 percent of the people who did not know whether they were being...
...other, more creative, pursuits. A self-taught inventor, he’s eager to show his collection of scientific patents to anyone who drops by his shop.His most recent invention is a visual stethoscope, which resembles a pocket-sized flying saucer with lights that pulse in time with the patient??s heartbeat. He explains that he designed it for use in ambulances, where it can be impossible to hear a pulse clearly.For Marshall, inspiration often strikes in peculiar ways. He says that the idea for a visual stethoscope came to him while he was watching television...
...adolescent by delaying medical treatment or forcing the adolescent into an unwanted childbirth.” The AMA goes further, arguing, “Physicians should not feel or be compelled to require minors to obtain consent of their parents before deciding whether to undergo an abortion. The patient??even an adolescent—generally must decide whether, on balance, parental involvement is advisable. Accordingly, minors should ultimately be allowed to decide whether parental involvement is appropriate.” When the country’s largest association of medical doctors speaks of the dangers parental notification poses...
...issue of Nature: Biotechnology, Lieber published a paper explaining how nanowires can be used to help diagnose cancer. Lieber’s idea was to attach each of the wires to numerous antibodies. When the antibodies bind to enzymes known to be associated with cancer, their conductivity changes. A patient??s diagnosis is obtained by measuring the electric current across the grid. According to Lieber, these nanowire devices have numerous advantages over current techniques for diagnosing cancer: they are cheap to produce, can test for a number of different cancer markers in parallel, and can be easily updated...