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The medical world is making astonishing progress in its mission to cure and heal the ill. One of the fields in which quick progress has been made is that of transplants, but alto the field of prosthetics. Gone are the days when an amputated leg could prevent you from running the marathon and an amputated arm – from cooking bouillabaisse. Karl Merk, a German farmer, is a man with quite a story. Six years ago, he lost his arms in a farming accident. He was chosen for a clinical trial which involved a complete, double-arm transplant. Much to Karl’s and the doctors’ shock and (then) delight, the...
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A 54-year old German farmer received the
world’s first complete double arm transplant at the Munich University Clinic on
July 25 to 26. A team of 40 surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses and other
surgery supporting staff spent 15 hours grafting the donor arms on to the body
of Karl Merk. The arms came from a teenager, who had died in a car accident
only hours before the surgery.
Both the donor’s arms were removed exactly
at the point matching the patient’s stumps. First the bones were jointed, then
arteries and veins to ensure blood circulation as quickly as possible. The...
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Democrat Barack Obama’s plan would cover 34
million of the nation’s projected 67 million uninsured people in 10 years,
compared with just 2 million covered under Republican John McCain’s plan,
according to a report released by the Commonwealth Fund. A recent analysis
published in the journal Health Affairs suggests that the McCain’s plan will
lead employers to drop coverage for over 20 million Americans, while 21 million
people would gain coverage through the individual market.
McCain’s plan would eliminate tax breaks on
employer-sponsored health care benefits and instead give...
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Laboratory Corporation of America, also known as LabCorp, was
sent a warning letter in which federal officials accuse the company of
illegally marketing a drug test to detect ovarian cancer.
The warning letter, dated Sept. 29, clearly states that
marketing OvaSure “is in violation of the law,” as the company “does not have
marketing clearance or approval from the FDA,” Steven I. Gutman, director in
the office of In Vitro Diagnostic Device Evaluation and Safety with the FDA
wrote.
The test, developed by researchers at Yale School of
Medicine, was first introduced in June,...
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With the presidential
campaigns nearing the end and the elections on November 4,
2008 approaching,
both candidates for president of the United States have come to play their last
card: the reformation of the U.S. health care system.
While
Democrat Barack Obama aims at convincing more people to sign up for employer-based
health care, his counter-candidate John McCain has his mind and his plan set on
doing the exact opposite, by trying to make people switch from employer-based
health care to individual health-care plans. His project seeks to replace the
government’s subvention for...
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