Doctors sell hip resurfacing to boomers
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Doctors are beginning to offer a new alternative to hip replacement, one aimed at younger, athletic baby boomers who've worn out their joints too soon. Now they no longer have to wait until they hit their 60s for a fix.
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The city&#39;s 30,000 residents 65 or older have a new option when it comes to paying for their prescription drugs. On Friday, Warren joined other municipalities across the state to offer
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The Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center is decidedly less exotic than its name might suggest. Wedged between a lawyer's office and a brokerage firm on the third floor of a dreary Jupiter, Fla., office building, it is a glorified boiler room, "basically a call center," as one employee explains. Yet investigators contend that the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center (PBRC) -- and dozens of so-called antiaging or wellness centers like it -- is a vital component in a massive illegal distribution network that enabled customers to place orders over the Internet for performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone (HGH).
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Peter Cummins lay still as doctors administered 20 injections into the 81-year-old's calves and thighs, hoping the genetic experiment will spur new blood vessels to grow around his clogged leg arteries.    The experiment at the National Institutes of Health marks a resurgence in attempts to get the body to grow its own bypasses, at first in the legs and, if that works, perhaps later in the heart...
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Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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A 105-year-old Bosnian granny, has been treated by a doctor for the first time in her life, a Bosnian news agency reported Wednesday.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia  -- Carla Coco-Boutte stepped off the train for a brief Canadian excursion, but she wasn't looking for typical souvenirs such as aboriginal carvings or smoked salmon. The 51-year-old former airline employee planned to return to her home in Santa Barbara, Calif., with an armload of prescription drugs she bought at a fraction of what she would pay at home...
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A new study showing that padded hip protectors didn't prevent fractures in the elderly has renewed questions about hidden drug industry ties to medical research.
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There's big money in those wrinkles. How the makers of cosmetic fillers and smoothers are trying to tap into a new market.
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Medical device makers hawking new hip repair products using more of a patient's bone said they will likely go straight to consumers in advertising products in 2007, as the U.S. market is seen heating up.
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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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Rosemary Wilson, a 53-year-old Connecticut homemaker, has spent the past 20-odd years trying to fix whatever it is that's wrong with her back. She's seen neurologists, an orthopedic surgeon, an osteopath and a physical therapist. She has also sought help from chiropractors, a massage therapist an...
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If a prescription needs to be filled in Hollywood, chances are celebrities can find a doctor to do it.
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Next month, a Franklin, Mass., company will begin selling a futuristic device that painlessly injects medications through microscopic pores in the skin, holes created by low-frequency vibrations instead of high-anxiety needles.
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Scientists in Finland said they had  replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone  transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own  fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.
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Two doctors believe they have the cure for wrinkles - infra-red light therapy.
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y.  - Sticking needles in your  ankles might not seem like an obvious way to rid your face of  wrinkles, but for Barbara Leivent, it's better than plastic  surgery or cosmetic injections.