CNN 2010-04-28

Well, we take so many things for granted. Employees will wash their hands before making your food. Police and firefighters will come when you call them and doctors who poke and prod you are using clean instruments. Well, hold off on that last one. On

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SSS 2011-07-12

This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Obesity is associated with a host of health problems. But a new study finds that obese people may actually have an advantage in a specific medical situation: theyre less l

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LONDON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Barcode technology widely used in supermarkets and industry is to be introduced into Britain's National Health Service (NHS), it was announced Thursday. Scanning will be used for the first time on breast implants and repla

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 May 2006 The U.S. military has deployed one of its huge hospital ships to Asia on a mission designed to build good will and also help prepare for responding to future disasters. ----------------------------------------------

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By Jane M Friedman Washington, DC 24 April 2006 watch Surgeon Gender report Historically, women medical students have chosen not to become surgeons, a specialty dominated by men. Women, it was said, w

TED演讲:大爱无疆 爱本无条件(5)

And in the course of his childhood, 他的童年， he had 30 major surgical procedures. 经历了 30次重大外科手术。 And he spent all this time stuck in the hospital while he was having those procedures, 他一直待在医院里，而正是这

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Can geographic information make you healthy? In 2001 I got hit by a train. My train was a heart attack. I found myself in a hospital in an intensive-care ward, recuperating from emergency surgery. And I suddenly realized something: that I was complet

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BBC News with Jerry Smit. The human rights group Amnesty International says the government of Sudan has used chemical weapons against his own people in Darfur. It says since January more than 200 people, including dozens of children have died in agon

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The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, currently en route to Haiti, has treated patients in the region before. Medical personnel who have personal connections to Haiti are preparing fellow shipmates for what is ahead. There are more than 550 medical pr

US Doctors Perform Full-Face Transplant

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Surgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), joined by colleagues from Penn Medicine, recently completed the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor hand

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A huge part of the world's population of the world snores during sleep, something that is usually made fun of by others. But in some cases, snoring is not a laughing matter. It can often be a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, a sleep disorder that can

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LONDON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- A children's hospital designed by children opened its doors Thursday in Liverpool. Alder Hey, the busiest children's hospital in Europe, handling 275,000 patients a year, started a five-day move from 19th century buildings

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CHANGSHA, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A court in central China's Hunan Province on Friday concluded the trial of nine people involved in the case of a teenager who sold one of his kidneys to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The court will later pronounce its verdi

Australian troops at risk of HIV from Iraq

SYDNEY, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Australian soldiers and contractors in Iraq might have been exposed to blood-borne diseases such as HIV or hepatitis, as staff at Defense's main hospital unit in the Middle East failed to sterilize surgical equipment proper

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