About Cankles and Ankle Liposuction...
Posted by Rich in Plastic Surgery on 08 27th, 2009 | No Comments
Cankles is popular slang term (actually a portmanteau word combining calf and ankle) used to describe the area where the ankle and the calf muscle look to be one and the same. Women with cankles will notice that the width of the back side of their leg is the same width as they continue down the leg. There is...
AWAK Automated Wearable Artificial Kidne...
The AWAK an automated, wearable artificial kidney, may one day eliminate the need for dialysis patients to spend hours hooked up to a machine at the hospital every week.
The portable device, originally designed by the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and a pair of UCLA researchers,...
Sleep Apnea Leads To Increased Risk Of D...
A new study has concluded that middle-aged and elderly man with sleep apnea, are at almost double the risk of dying from chronic diseases. Even patients with a moderate sleep apnea face a 17 percent increased risk of premature death, when compared with those who do not have sleep disordered breathing...
Surgeons Save Five Transplant Patients L...
British surgeons have carried out five life-saving transplant operations from two donors in under 24 hours. In just one day, the team of surgeons at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital performed two stomach, bowel and liver transplants on five different patients.
The remarkable feat of coordination...
New Treatment Reverses MS In Mice...
Canadian scientists have pioneered new experimental treatment to completely reverse multiple sclerosis in mice. In MS, the immune system attacks the central nervous system, the new treatment suppresses the immune system to put multiple sclerosis into remission.
The new treatment, called GIFT15, comprises...
Happiness Increases With Age...
A growing body of research suggests that the longer you live, the happier you’ll become. Researchers who spoke at the recent annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Toronto, announced that mental health generally improves with age.
Reporting on several studies of aging and...
4 Healthy Habits Help You Live Longer...
Don’t smoke, take regular exercise, stay away from junk food and watch your weight.
It’s certainly not new advice, but did you know how important it can be? A new study has shown that maintaining these four healthy habits can decrease the risks of developing the most common fatal diseases by...
Breastfeeding Reduces Breast Cancer Risk...
A new 8-year study suggests that women with a family history of breast cancer, who have breastfed during their life, are nearly 60% less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer.
Alison Stuebe, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,...
Woman Fights Cancer With Grapefruit Juic...
In 2004, Albina Duggan was given just three years live after being diagnosed with Stage IV cancer.
“[The doctor] told me I had three years — if lucky, five — to live,”
Five years later, thanks to the drug rapamycin and grapefruit juice, she has beaten the odds.
Duggan turned to...
Scientists Bioengineer New Teeth In Mice...
Japanese researchers at Tokyo University, have grown new teeth in mice with the help of bioengineered tissue. Dr. Fei Liu a researcher at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, who is familiar with the study, said the research provides “convincing”...
