Orthopedic Surgery
Orthopedic (sometimes spelled orthopaedic) surgery corrects problems that arise in the skeleton and its attachments, the ligaments and tendons. It may also deal with some problems o...
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A new crop of medicines to prevent stroke and blood clots could emerge within several years, easing dangers and hardships for patients and potentially creating blockbuster sales for drug makers.The...
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A small plane flown by a descendant of one of the brothers who built the renowned Mayo Clinic crashed at a southern Minnesota airport, killing all four people aboard.Dr. Chester W.P. Mayo, an ortho...
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A small plane flown by a descendant of one of the brothers who built the renowned Mayo Clinic crashed at a southern Minnesota airport, killing all four people aboard.Dr. Chester W.P. Mayo, an ortho...
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Federal health officials issued stern new warnings Friday for doctors to more carefully prescribe widely used anemia drugs that can increase the risk of death and other serious problems in patients...
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An Osaka hospital has successfully transplanted a tendon donated
by a 28-year-old man to his 24-year-old sister who tore her knee
ligament while practicing judo, according to hospital officia...
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"Critical" (Putnam, 452 pages, $25.95), by Robin Cook: Call him a crusader. Robin Cook writes his thrillers not so much to entertain, but, as he once said in an interview, to "alert the public to m...
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Shinya Yamanaka dreamed of becoming a doctor for a simple reason: He used to get hurt a lot."I was always playing sports like judo and rugby, and I was always getting injured," Yamanaka says. "Ther...
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Shinya Yamanaka dreamed of becoming a doctor for a simple reason: He used to get hurt a lot."I was always playing sports like judo and rugby, and I was always getting injured," Yamanaka says. "Ther...
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For two years, Frances Kinley-Manton says she lived with arthritis pain in her hips, a condition that kept her in a wheelchair.She wanted hip replacement surgery. But doctors at Britain's National ...
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Orthopedic Surgery
Clot Drugs Could Be Big Sellers
