I’ve seen a couple stories about a new heart pump that is attached through a hole in your abdomen and is worn like a book bag on your back. One woman with a failing heart could no longer wait for a transplant so they attached this device to her to keep her blood pumping….
Monthly Archives: February 2008
The Uninsured and Cancer
Studies show that people who are not insured and those on Medicaid don’t go to the doctor until their cancers are advanced. Obviously this is not good because everyone knows or should know by now that there is a better chance of survival when tumors are caught early. Putting aside the fact that these people…
Women and New Knees
Research shows that women wait a lot longer before they opt for knee replacement surgery than men. The main reason is that doctors usually explain to patients that the new artificial knees will probably also need replacing in the future because even the titanium knees will wear out. Women will eventually die without having to…
Pre-Chewed Food Passes On HIV
Researchers have determined that parents or others who are infected with HIV and pre-chew their babies food can pass the infection on to the infant. Surprisingly, only three cases of this type of transmission have been documented and they are all in the US. I understand that in some underdeveloped countries this could be…
The Accord Study
The Accord study was a research project where they took two groups of people with diabetes type 2 and put one of the groups into an extremely intensive program to lower blood sugar. This study lasted about four years and was just ordered to stop because this group had 54 more deaths than the…