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...Katherine Hauser will never forget her first sight of Bobbi McCaughey's babies on the screen of the ultrasound machine. Hauser, a reproductive endocrinologist in Des Moines, Iowa, had been treating Bobbi for infertility, and the medication she'd prescribed had worked like a charm. Although it often takes repeated injections of ovulation-stimulating Metrodin to prime a woman's reluctant eggs for successful conception, Bobbi got pregnant on the first try. Hauser had warned Bobbi and her husband Kenny that a side effect of fertility drugs can be multiple births; in about 20% of cases, a woman who conceives...
While most surgeons are willing to adopt minimally invasive, or noninvasive, procedures to control bleeding during an operation--such as laparoscopy, which requires tiny incisions, or ultrasound to destroy kidney stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced...
Your family practitioner may be plugged in to the fanciest ultrasound equipment available, but can he use a simple stethoscope? Maybe not, according to an article in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a study of 198 internal medicine residents and 255 family practice residents in their first, second and third years, researchers found that physicians could detect, on average, just 20 percent of the 12 most common cardiac problems by using their stethoscopes. And the situation is likely to get worse. Currently, fewer than one-third of all internal medicine programs nationwide offer...
...preliminary study, Israeli researchers successfully used ultrasound to break up BLOOD CLOTS that cause heart attacks. The technique is less invasive than bypass surgery and, unlike clot-busting drugs, does not pose a risk of excessive bleeding...
Even before Cheyenne was delivered, doctors knew she was in for a rough ride. Ultrasound revealed a deformity in the left side of her heart; she would need either a grueling series of procedures to correct the defect or a single operation to replace the organ. Her parents chose the transplant...