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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut's First Robotic-Assisted Single Site Hysterectomy
HartfordA surgical team at Hartford Hospital performed the state's and New England's first da Vinci - or robotic-assisted single site hysterectomy on May 2. The patient's uterus was removed through one tiny incision in the belly button, making the procedure...Tags: Hartford Hospital, Women's Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Hysterectomy
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Doctors save Ohio boy by 'printing' an airway tube
In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day. It's the latest advance from the booming field of regenerative medicine,...Tags: Science and Technology, Healthcare Provider, University of Missouri , Hospitals and Clinics, Birth Defects
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Merck's insomnia drug moves a step closer to U.S. approval
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug moved a step closer to U.S. approval on Wednesday after a panel of medical experts said it is effective and safe at lower doses. The advisory panel was convened to help the U.S. Food and Drug...Tags: Trials, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Ambien (drug), Elections, Stanford University
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FDA staff says Merck's sleep drug effective, questions dosage
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Merck & Co's experimental insomnia drug suvorexant appears generally effective, according to reviewers at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but they questioned the company's proposed dosing levels. The reviewers posted their...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Ambien (drug), Weight, Drugs and Medicines, Merck & Company Incorporated
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As grocers, restaurants bicker, many menus still lack calorie counts
Three years after Congress voted to require it, you still won't find calories listed on the menus of most restaurant chains. The problem? The federal government has yet to write the specific rules to carry out the law, in part because supermarkets are...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Restaurants, Cathy McMorris, Nutrition, Panera Bread Company
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XenoPort to drop multiple sclerosis drug, shares fall
Reuters(Reuters) - XenoPort Inc said it would stop development of an experimental multiple sclerosis treatment it planned to launch in 2015 after a late-stage trial failed to show significant improvement over a placebo. Shares of the company fell 26 percent...Tags: Trials, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Stock Market, Placebo
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A birth control double standard
In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...
Tags: Plan B (drug), Science and Technology, Justice System, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Judges
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Consumer watchdog: most sunscreens meet FDA standards, but questionable SPF ratings persist
AP Health WriterWASHINGTON (AP) — Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to...Tags: Skin Cancer, Consumers, Dermatologists, Sunburn, Washington, DC
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: White House, National Institutes of Health, Michael Chertoff, Vaccines, Crime, Law and Justice
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Totally Rad run in Bethlehem
It was as if Disney's animation department was put in charge of the napalm scene in the movie "Apocalypse Now." Flashes of intense color — hot pink, day-glow orange — streaked across the course of the Color Me Rad 5-kilometer run in...
Tags: Road Running, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Running
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: White House, National Institutes of Health, Michael Chertoff, Vaccines, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Doctor's Corner: An early start on treating menopause
This is the first of a two-part series updating women of all ages on the use of hormones. It is a pleasure to be back putting pencil to paper with good news for women going through "the change." A Global Consensus Statement, hot off the press in the...Tags: Physical Conditions, Healthcare Provider, Symptoms, Cleveland Clinic, Obstetrics
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