Dec. 13, 1809: Doctor Performs First Removal of Ovarian Tumor
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The surgery has never been attempted and no anesthetic exists to ward off the searing pain of all that cutting. Yet Ephraim McDowell decides to go ahead.
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NEW YORK  - Ovarian cancer is much more  curable if detected early, but the disease doesn't usually  produce symptoms until it is advanced and current blood tests  are not very sensitive in picking it up. A new test may improve  the situation, researchers have shown.
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A US senator who underwent emergency brain surgery last December makes his first public appearance.
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Benign tumour faces weightless extraction French surgeons will today board a modified Airbus A300, dubbed "Zero-G", to carry out the world's first weightless surgery on a human, the BBC reports.â¦
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Infertility treatment has come a long way since the first test-tube baby was born 26 years ago. When Louise Brown was born more than a quarter of a century ago the procedure was hailed as pioneering.
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How research in the wake of the French Revolution opened the door for modern medicine.
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One of the most horrifying medical treatments of the 20th century was carried out not clandestinely, but with the approval of the medical establishment, the media and the public. Known as the transorbital or "ice pick" lobotomy, the crude and destructive brain-scrambling operation performed on th...
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new surgery for women being treated for cervical cancer may protect fertility and stave off ovarian failure.
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NEW YORK  - Adolescent girls should make their first visit to an obstetrician-gynecologist at around 13 to 15 years of age, even though routine Pap testing doesn&#39;t usually start until they&#39;re older, according to a recommendation from the
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Dr. William H. Crosby Jr. was a pioneering hematologist who invented one of the first devices to obtain biopsies of the bowel.
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&quot;It is a dream&quot; said Ouarda Touirat, smiling at the cameras yesterday. The first woman in the world to give birth following an ovarian transplant cradled her new-born baby and added: &quot;It is what I have always wanted.
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When Christine had a hysterectomy in September, her doctor told her it would take about a week to recover from the laparoscopic procedure.
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A woman has become the first in the world to give birth to a live baby following an ovarian transplant in a breakthrough that could allow doctors to reverse the menopause and restore fertility to women in middle age.
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A woman with cancer has had her fertility preserved thanks to doctors who transplanted her ovary into her arm.
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SUNDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Ovarian cancer has long had a reputation as a silent killer, because many people believed it gave no warning signs until far advanced.
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ATLANTA -- For the first time, cancer experts are advising women of certain symptoms that might alert them to ovarian cancer, a disease that is hard to spot early and one of the deadliest cancers.
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NEW YORK  - A woman undergoing treatment  for cervical cancer had one of her healthy ovaries successfully  transplanted into her upper arm, in order to maintain hormonal  function, a Dutch team reports.