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…. She woke up one day with an intense stomach pain. She was rushed into surgery performed by one of the doctors she worked with and had become close to. He was convinced that the surgery had fixed her problem, but Mary knew better. She knew herself well…

…or not breast cancer returns after surgery may be better predicted using a new laboratory test, that we helped devise along with a team of researchers led by a University of California San Francisco physician. About 30 percent of women whose breast cancer has…

…of the two hemispheres in five simple points. 1. The two hemispheres are so similar that when they are disconnected by split-brain surgery, each can function remarkably well, although quite imperfectly 2. Although they are remarkably similar they are also…

…is not effective, the person with CTS may require carpal tunnel surgery. This costly procedure involves cutting the transverse ligament on the underside of the wrist to relieve the pressure within the carpal tunnel. The surgery can result in decreased hand strength…

…College of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia conferred the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery upon twenty-six men, one of whom was John Henry Holliday. Upon completion of his training and graduation, Dr. Holliday opened an office with a Dr. Arthur C. Ford…

…. This pressure causes great damage to the optic nerve, thus leading to blindness. Glaucoma is treatable in about 90% of the sufferers. In some cases, surgery is needed. However in most cases, topical eye drops combined with daily oral medication is prescribed…

…’Leary 3). According to the National Society For Prevention of Blindness, there are 178,000 new cases of glaucoma diagnosed each year. Ten-thousand of these cases go fully blind yearly. Surgeries and glaucomic medications are either impotent or cause terrible…

…. That much he could still do. Later that day he lapsed into a coma and was rushed to the hospital. On the morning of July 10 the results of a spinal tap showed that he did indeed have a brain tumor. The doctors felt that surgery be performed immediately…

…, Letzer & et al (1995) interviewed 21 Bedouin women in Israel about the history of their Ritual Female Genital Surgery RFGS or circumcision. Ironically, the most common reason for this horrible habit was social pressure. Women interviewed indicated…

…, and physical problems such as a type of pain control. In the seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, hypnosis was used very often as an anesthetic during surgery. The patient would not have any other type of anesthetic in his or her body. Donald Jackson…