Human Liver, Part of Head Sent to Home
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CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Two packages containing human body parts - including a liver and part of a head - meant for a medical research lab instead were delivered to a home.
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Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what&#39;s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.
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Canadian health officials say a restaurant worker in Kelowna, British Columbia, may have exposed as many as 2,400 people worldwide to the hepatitis A virus.
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A five-year-old girl has been given a new "piggyback" head to help her replace skin and hair lost in a burns accident.
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Mr Latham is due to leave St Vincent&#39;s hospital in Sydney after being treated for pancreatitis. Mr Latham says he is feeling much better and expects to be back at work next week.
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Every day, more than 15 people die in the United States while waiting for a lifesaving organ that never comes. At this very moment in New England, two babies under the age of 1 year old need livers.
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Scientists use the latest cell staining techniques to create a colourful "brainbow" of the tissues of the brain.
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The trauma center's radio crackles an alert: A 34-year-old woman injured in an auto wreck is being brought in by helicopter. Parts of her scalp have been torn back, exposing her skull. Broken bones may be sticking out through the skin of her left leg.
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CLEVELAND -- A person severely disfigured by burns or disease could receive the first human face transplant using tissues from an organ donor.
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If you've had a CT or MRI scan recently, ask your doctor for the CD. You can make something pretty with it. In Bodyhack.
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NEW YORK  - Some men and women who consume the recommended daily amount of choline, an essential dietary nutrient, may still develop an insufficiency and experience liver dysfunction as a result, new study findings suggest.
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Having a nurse visit the home a few days after a woman has a baby reduces the number of newborns being readmitted to the hospital with jaundice or dehydration
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(LUMBER BRIDGE, North Carolina)-- About 3,000 North Carolinians are on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant. More than half of those are in need of a kidney.
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A mannequin skull sits in an MRI machine, about to be filled with a thick, brain-like gel. MRIs are required tests for numerous disorders.
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NEW YORK Baseball commissioner Bud Selig had surgery today to remove a cancerous lesion from his forehead. The lesion was detected last month during Selig&#39;s annual physical, and a biopsy confirmed that it contained melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffered from cirrhosis - widespread disruption of normal liver structure usually caused by alcohol abuse â-lthough he was âa true water drinker,â the French newspaper Le Monde reported today.
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The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA, is to start screening patients for what will be the first ever face transplant. A review board has given the clinic permission to carry out the procedure.