Hospital Information - October 13, 2008

UK Scientists Say 'Delaying Motherhood Is Cause For Concern'

September 16, 2005 - Topics mother, disease, hospital, child and pregnant
According to a group of London-based fertility specialists the increase in women over 35 having children is cause for some alarm.

They say the best age for pregnancy remains 20 to 35

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Delaying Motherhood Is Cause For Concern

September 16, 2005 - Topics mother, disease, hospital, child and pregnant
According to a group of London-based fertility specialists the increase in women over 35 having children is cause for some alarm.

They say the best age for pregnancy remains 20 to 35

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Scientists Use Mouse Stem Cells To Repair Sheep Hearts

September 16, 2005 - Topics hospital, diabetes, heart disease, men and europe

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Researchers at the National Center for Scientific Research in Montpellier, France and the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris, transplanted mouse cells into nine sheep that had suffered heart attacks

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Broken Bulb Exposes Hundreds To Short-wave Radiation

September 15, 2005 - Topics radiation, child, sunburn and hospital
More than 100 people have been exposed to short-wave radiation due to a malfunctioning light bulb. Those effected were exposed for an hour, 18 were sent to the hospital with severe sunburns and swollen eyes.

According to The Associated Press, the exposure occurred during a memorial in honor of September 11 held Friday at the Baker Elementary School in Columbia. Attendees, many of whom were military veterans, said they started to feel symptoms soon after the event began

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Drug-coated Stent Reduces Surgery Need in Heart Patients

September 14, 2005 - Topics surgery, hospital, research, blood and study
A new study of heart patients shows that putting a small, drug-coated metal tube, or stent, inside the blood vessels can reduce the need for major surgery or other procedures. Each year, about 1 million Americans are treated for blocked heart vessels that prevent blood from flowing the way it should.

The stents are coated with a drug called Paclitaxel, which prevents scar tissue from growing and re-clogging the artery

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