Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients
...gery until they're teen-agers. And if the graft is poorly placed, it can't be moved. Enter Poll's alternative. It sounds traumatic. After all, Alyssa ran around for weeks last summer with all the bones in her face broken. Indeed, Poll's experience with a few dozen patients suggests this so-called ``rigid e...Focused Treatment For Childhood Cancer
A poorly understood type of childhood brain cancer has a unique molecule signature that may point to which therapies could best fight it.// Armed with targeted molecular treatments, doctors may be able to fight the disease without risking the side effects of ...More People Seeking Treatment for Depression
...epression has been described as underdiagnosed and poorly treated in the US. In fact, a recent study stressed that as many as 8 million Americans with serious mental illness fail to receive adequate treatment. Americans have no qualms about seeking treatment for depression. It's just that they're turning ...Pregnancy should not be confined
...o are at risk for preterm delivery, those who have poorly controlled diabetes, and those with placental abnormalities, however, are advised to refrain from air travel while pregnant. Some women, particularly those with heart problems, may experience discomfort while flying due to changes in cabin pressure...Teens listen to parents about smoking
...bling or friend who smoked and those who performed poorly in school were more likely to become smokers than their peers....... often means that areas of the heart muscle become poorly supplied with blood - this can lead to both painful angina attacks, and to heart attacks. If blood vessels could be encouraged to grow to reinforce the supply to the heart muscle, this could drastically improve quality of life. In diabetes, this is a...Among older people high blood pressure is poorly controlled. Drugs and lifestyle modification can help control high blood pressure (hypertension) yet these measures are not being taken by a majority of those who have the condition. At the Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, doctors have sur...