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Michigan doctor's license suspended after allegedly performing liposuction in unfinished pole barn
A Michigan doctor’s license was suspended after numerous health violations were allegedly uncovered at an unfinished pole barn used as a location for performing liposuction procedures. Bradley Bastow, of Glenn, Mich., had his osteopathic physician’s license suspended May 12. Attorney General Bill Schuette and Licensing and Regulartory Affairs filed an administrative complaint alleging the following violations...
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Chika's story: A fight to cure the incurable
They didn’t look alike, talk alike, or come from the same world. Then they were together, fighting the fight of their lives.
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Veterans call for the use of pot and more accountability as the VA battles the opioid epidemic
Veteran and Missouri man Joshua Lee has learned the hard way how dangerous opioids can be. Lee was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, and today suffers from PTSD, fibromyalgia and arthritis. For the pain, he was prescribed opioids by his physicians through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). But things quickly spun out of control. By August of last year, Lee said he was taking 27 pills a day.
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Inbreeding In Polygamist Mormon Town Behind Severe Mental Retardation Of Children: Disease Has No Cure
A super rare disease that results from polygamous inbreeding is reportedly affecting children at alarming rates — and it has no cure. Experts say inbreeding in a Mormon community near the border of Arizona with Utah is responsible for a rare — now common — genetic condition called fumarase deficiency that is causing children of polygamist families to suffer from extreme physical and mental dysfunctions. Experts are now warning members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or FLDS) enclave of the dangers of conceiving inbred offspring.
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Harvard researchers help develop ‘smart’ tattoos
Harvard and MIT researchers have developed smart tattoo ink capable of monitoring health by changing color to tell an athlete if she is dehydrated or a diabetic if his blood sugar rises.
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Why Your Blood Pressure Probably Isn't as High as Your Doctor Says
One simple change could drastically lower rates of hypertension in the United States. No, it's not proper diet and exercise (though that would definitely make a dent); it's measuring blood pressure properly. According to a new study published in Scientific Reports, patients need 25 minutes of rest to ensure an accurate blood pressure reading.
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Patients Are Ditching Opioids And Instead Using Cannabis To Treat Pain, Anxiety, And Depression
Patients are ditching opioids and instead using cannabis to treat pain, anxiety, and depression mostly in states where pot is legal, according to a new study.
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Surgeon admits marking his initials on patients’ livers during transplant ops
A surgeon has admitted burning his initials on to the livers of two unconscious patients during transplant operations. Simon Bramhall, 53, admitted two counts of assault by beating at Birmingham Crown Court but pleaded not guilty to alternative charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. In a statement, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Bramhall wrote his initials on the livers of the two patients without their consent and for no clinical reason while working as a liver transplant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
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Doctor found guilty of reusing anal catheters on dozens of patients for a year
A surgeon based in New Jersey has been accused of reusing anal catheters on multiple patients for more than a year. The colon and rectal surgeon, Sanjiv K Patankar has reportedly washed and reused catheters on his patients' rectums during medical procedures. The news has been confirmed by Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Division of Consumer Affairs through a recently issued statement.
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Groundbreaking medical marijuana case lets little girl go back to school
A little girl is back in school in Schaumburg, Illinois, but only after a federal judge gave her the ok to use her medical marijuana. The case could have extensive ramifications down the road.
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Fixing pain management could help us solve the opioid crisis
Australia is facing a critical public health issue of poorly managed pain. The result is more opioid-related deaths than the road toll.
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OxyContin maker will stop marketing opioid products to doctors amid scrutiny
The maker of the painkiller OxyContin will stop actively marketing its opioid products to doctors. Purdue Pharmaceuticals announced that it would cut its sales staff by more than half and would stop sending sales representatives to doctor's offices to discuss opioid products.
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Doctors remove sea snail living, growing inside 11-year-old's skin
New Delhi: In the first recorded case of its kind in medical literature, doctors removed a tiny sea snail from inside an 11-year-old's abscess. The boy, it appeared, had grazed his elbow while playing in a tidal pool in California, which harbors thousands of molluscs. Doctors believe that a snail egg must have found its way into the wound, hatched and then grew, triggering an abscess – a painful collection of pus caused by an infection – before it was removed.
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Orlando pediatrician arrested for using partial vaccine doses
An Orlando pediatrician posted bond and has been released from jail after being accused of committing Medicaid fraud affecting hundreds of children. The Florida Department of Health said Dr. Ishrat Sohail provided only partial vaccines to more than 500 children, but charged them in full.
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Fewer heart attack patients die when top cardiologists are away at conferences, study finds
Heart attack patients are more likely to survive when top cardiologists are not in the hospital, a new study suggests. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that when heart specialists are away at academic conferences, the survival rate at their hospitals actually improves. They believe that specialists who attend the meetings are more prone to using intensive interventions for their patients which may do more harm than good, rather than taking a more holistic approach.
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Nurse Alone in Clinic Treats Himself for Heart Attack
A 44-year-old nurse who works in a remote medical facility in Coral Bay, Australia, was the only person on duty when he began to experience heart attack symptoms and knew he would have to attempt his own treatment. His story, told by Felicity Lee, MB, from the Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Nedlands, Western Australia, and colleagues, appears in a March 8 letter to the editor in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM ).
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Costs for hip and knee replacements could be reduced, saving billions every year
he U.S. could save billions of dollars per year by controlling costs related to elective hip and knee replacements, according to an article by members of the Center for Health Advancement at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. The analysis was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Woman ‘embalmed alive’ in hospital error
A RUSSIAN woman was killed after allegedly being embalmed alive in a horrific medical blunder. Ekaterina Fedyaeva, 27, is said to have died after medics put her on a formalin drip — a solution containing formaldehyde — instead of saline. She was in hospital for an unspecified but routine surgery when she was injected with formalin, normally infused into the veins of the dead to prevent decomposition. Her mother accused physicians of “murder” following the incident in her home city of Ulyanovsk, Russia, The Sun reports.
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Psychedelic drug ibogaine significantly reduces opioid withdrawal and cravings
New scientific research provides more evidence that the psychedelic drug ibogaine can help treat opioid withdrawal and cravings. The new findings are reported in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Ibogaine a psychoactive substance found in the root bark of the African Tabernanthe iboga plant, which has been used in the shamanic rituals of the Bwiti religion in West Africa. The drug is outlawed in the United States and many other countries, but remains legally available in Mexico. The new research examined 50 patients addicted to heroin or prescription opioids who participated in a week-long ibogaine treatment program in Tijuana.
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He needed a kidney. A classmate from 50 years ago whom he barely knew answered the call
Charlie Ball and Kenneth Walker went to school together more than 50 years ago and now live on opposite coasts. But despite the time and distance between them, the two are now sharing more than high school memories. Walker and Ball are alumni of Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. Even though they both graduated in 1969, the two never really spoke to one another. But when Walker sent out an email last year to his old classmates asking for a kidney, Ball said he recognized the name.
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