Tissue recipients are free of pig virus.
A new study bodes well for organ transplants and other medical treatments that mix human and pig cells. Researchers examined 160 patients who had undergone, during the past 12 years, a variety of experimental procedures that use pig tissue. In some cases, physicians had run patients' blood through external...

Mind-body medicine in oncology: 'mind matters.'--David Spiegel.
At the end of the 20th century cancer emerged as the second leading cause of death in the USA, exceeded only by cardiovascular disease. Taking into account the emotional and psychological trauma associated with the disease, and the fact that treatment is often as harsh as the disease itself,...

ATS Medical Acquires Assets from EM Vascular.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. a leader in providing innovative products and services focused on cardiac surgery today announced the acquisition of certain assets of EM Vascular, Inc. The transaction will be completed through an issuance of ATS Common Stock to EM Vascular, Inc. and subsequently...

Medical illustrations are worth a thousand words.
The Field of Medical-Legal Illustration Medical illustrators have specialized education in medicine and visual communication. They have Master's degrees from a department within a medical school, and have studied human anatomy, neuroanatomy, pathology, cell biology and other health-related sciences. Many medical illustrators are certified by the Association...

Experts: Laser Eye Surgery Safe.
Decade-Long Study Shows PRK and LASIK Surgeries 'Safe and Effective' LAS VEGAS, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Both LASIK and PRK eye procedures are safe and effective, according to results of a 10-year study presented today at the Academy of Ophthalmology's 2006 Joint Meeting. Researchers who...

Fatal knowledge? Prenatal diagnosis and sex selection.
Nonvalidated Therapies and HIV Disease The introduction of potential treatments for HIV disease has, in almost every instance, engendered controversy. The speedy approval of AZT (Zidovudine) has led to charges that FDA was inappropriately influenced by political considerations, and the current extensive studies on AZT are pointed out...

Generating treatment plan in medicine: a data mining approach.
INTRODUCTION Accurate and error-free of diagnosis and treatment given to patients has been a major issue highlighted in medical service nowadays. Traditionally, healthcare providers provide services based on their knowledge and experiences whether individually or collectively depending on cases. Research done proved that hospitals do not all...

Warning: bioethics may be hazardous to your health.
The moralists' attack on medical progress and patient freedom In 1996, a 28-year-old breast cancer survivor named Joy Simha decided to take the new genetic test for the breast cancer gene BRCA1. If Simha tested positive for the gene, she would face a 50 percent to 85...

Putting herself in the picture: autobiographical images of illness and the body.
Metaphoric and symbolic uses of the body often reflect particular ideologies and relations of power within a society. If the gallery exhibitions, art journals and social science literature in recent years are any indication, there is a widespread questioning by artists, critics, and scholars of how certain bodies are conventionally...

Healthy wish list.
Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard Patients with benign brain tumors and men with prostate cancer no longer have to travel to Portland or San Francisco for cutting edge medical treatments. At McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center in Springfield, urologists use a $1.6 million surgical robot to remove...