| A chilling image of dangers of street life | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:07:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | THESE are the wounds suffered by a Scotland youth international footballer after he was stabbed in the street and had to be rushed to hospital for emergency surgery. The 18-year-old - who has asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals - was stabbed in the stomach as he walked home from a Livingston nightclub. Detectives hunting his attacker described the incident as "horrific". The teenager - who has a semi-professional contract with a Scottish football league club - decided to show his injuries to the Evening News to highlight the dangers of Scotland's knife culture. .... | |
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| | | Child undergoes robotic surgery at Sutton Children's | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 6:56:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | A 3-year-old boy is the first child to undergo robotic-assisted surgery at Christus Schumpert Sutton Children's Medical Center, officials said Tuesday. The surgery is believed to be the first of its kind in Louisiana, according to representatives from Intuitive Surgical, which makes the only robotic surgery system in use today. .... | |
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| | | Weight loss surgery poses risks | | Posted Saturday, July 29, 2006 8:59:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Four of every 10 patients who undergo weight-loss surgery develop complications within six months, the federal government says. Though the increasingly popular surgeries are viewed by doctors as a potential salvation in the war against obesity, many of the post-op complications were so serious that patients were readmitted to hospitals or visited emergency rooms within six months. Federal researchers found that complications from obesity surgery also add expenses. A typical surgery, without complications runs about $30,000. But a surgery with complications that require post-op hospitalization runs about $65,500. The most common complications included vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal hernias, infections, pneumonia and respiratory failure, as well as the leaking of gastric juices caused by imperfect surgical connections between the stomach and the intestines.... | |
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| | | Stomach surgery can help obese kids | | Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 6:58:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | OBESE teenagers who had surgery to shrink the size of their stomachs on average lost nearly half their weight in the four years after the procedure, according to a study presented on Thursday at a medical conference. Researchers from the Hospital Sao Camilo in Brazil also said that the laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery eliminated high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes for the teenage patients who had those conditions. "Morbid obesity is a progressive disease so the earlier the intervention whether by surgery or other means, the better the chances are to avoid future health problems and to prolong life," said Dr Ricardo Cohen, the study's lead author. The study involved 42 teenagers ages 13 to 18 whose average weight fell from 118 kg before surgery to 61 kg four years later.... | |
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