Doctors Grow New Jaw Bone in Man's Back
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LONDON - A German who had his lower jaw cut out because of cancer has enjoyed his first meal in nine years - a bratwurst sandwich - after surgeons grew a new jaw bone in his back muscle and transplanted it to his mouth in what experts call an "ambitious" experiment.    According to this week's issue of The Lancet medical journal, the German doctors used a mesh cage, a growth chemical and the patient's own bone marrow, containing stem cells, to create a new jaw bone that fit exactly into the gap left by the cancer surgery...
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British doctors believe they have cured a boy of a rare disorder by transplanting cells from his baby brother.
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Stem cells from fat tissue have been used to help grow bone to repair the damaged skull of a 7-year-old German girl, according to a report in a German medical journal.
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Chinese surgeons said Tuesday they successfully operated on a man with a massive 33-pound tumor that hung down from his face, obscuring his features and warping his backbone.
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Japanese scientists have generated new teeth and whiskers in mice using just a handful of embryonic cells&#8212;a key development in the quest to grow replacement organs for humans.
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Scientists are working on a technique to repair fractures using a patient's own stem cells.
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German physicians have pioneered a way to create and transplant bone grafts from one part of a patient&#39;s body to another. The work of Patrick H. Warnke and associates at the University of Kiel is summarized
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New nerves grown from stem cells taken from a patient's fat could be available by 2011, say researchers.
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'He is stable now. He experienced chest pain due to exertion and high blood pressure but that has now been brought under control through medicines,' a doctor said.q
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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The Food and Drug Administration has for the first time approved the use of electrical stimulation of bone growth - a decades-old technology - to improve the success rate of spinal fusion
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A man's testicles might be a source of stem cells to help him fight serious diseases, US scientists have shown.
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Scientists have developed a stengthened cement to be used in facial reconstructive surgery.
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Stockholm, Feb 5 Toothache or pain in the jaw may be a sign of a heart attack, according to a study conducted by researchers in Sweden and Uruguay.Comment
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Samples of human bone can be turned into jewellery by growing them in the laboratory.
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Dentists claim a new NHS contract means patients have more teeth removed rather than fixed, a BBC inquiry finds.
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NEW YORK  - The more time young men spend engaging in high-impact physical exercise, the greater their bone mineral density, a new study of medical students shows.