COMPLICATIONS in pregnancy have fallen as a result of the ban on smoking in public places.
The introduction of the ban in Scotland has resulted in a reduction in the number of babies being born early and underweight, the research, led by Professor Jill Pell, of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at Glasgow University, claims.
A man who lost his thumb flew halfway across the country after learning about a procedure first featured on ABC7 News. Surgeons at St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco have been perfecting the technique over the past few years.
Mike Stevens remembers the day his life changed. He was working on a large engine at his job in Mississippi when his hand contacted the fan blade. “And, within a second, the story was over,” he told ABC7.
After losing the entire thumb on his left hand, life and his work as a mechanic became exceedingly difficult. “I put a cam shaft in a Corvette. That usually takes me six hours and it took me probably 16,” he recalled.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is wholeheartedly embracing mobile. Last week, HIMSS announced that it has taken over the annual mHealth Summit from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. At the 2011 mHealth Summit just two months ago, the health IT advocacy group officially launched mHIMSS, a subgroup first reported by MobiHealthNews in November.
HIMSS created mHIMSS as a separately branded part of the organization because we really wanted to highlight it, HIMSS CEO H.
Feb. 13, 2012 — A new stem cell treatment resurrects dead, scarred heart muscle damaged by a recent heart attack.
The finding, just in time for Valentine’s Day, is the clearest evidence yet that literally broken hearts can heal. All that’s needed is a little help from one’s own heart stem cells.
“We have been trying as doctors for centuries to find a treatment that actually reverses heart injury,” Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD, tells WebMD. “That is what we seem to have been able to achieve in this small number of patients. If so, this could change the nature of medicine. We could go to the root of disease and cure it instead of just work around it.”
Marban, director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, led the study.
