Keeping Them in Stitches
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By Anonymous  Air Force flight surgeons keep astronauts flying  It is difficult for most Air Force doctors to make house calls, especially when the patient is in outer space. However, seven Air Force flight surgeons answered the call to keep America's astronauts fit to fly.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who need their tonsils  removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in  many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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A surgical gown with incision marks is designed to boost medical students' empathy for their patients.
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Someone else is running out of things to close.
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By Karen Nelson, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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A twin who survived a surgical separation last week from her sister went back into the operating room at Johns Hopkins Children&#39;s Center for several hours of reconstructive surgery on her head and scalp.
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By Emma D. Sapong, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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NEW YORK  - For women with pelvic pain due to infection and other causes, symptoms can be effectively relieved before they reach the hospital by active warming with an electric heating blanket, Austrian researchers report.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 25--Hooked up to tubes and monitors, a metal brace drilled into his skull to immobilize his broken neck, Frank Burd worried how his students would fare on state tests next month now that he could not be there to help them.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., March 12 -- Don't ask Kevin Millar to explain the inner workings of the large patch on his right forearm. It has a mini-battery in it and feeds some sort of medication -- he has no idea what -- into his strained forearm. What he knows for certain is this: It's designed to get...
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TUESDAY, Dec. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Playing catch with your young pitcher months before baseball season can help prevent an increasingly common pediatric pitching pitfall: torn rotator cuff injuries, according to doctors at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
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A simple five-item checklist can prevent hospital infections.
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Children who wear a patch to correct &quot;lazy eye&quot; need only wear it for four hours per day, and those aged under four around three hours, rather than the six to 12 hours usually recommended by doctors, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says.
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Hand-holding couples may be protected from pain and stress, a study shows.
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Grab lower interest rates, but keep that borrowing in check.