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CHICAGO (AP) — Robotic surgical operation is being performed increasingly regularly for a lot of operations. But experts say there's a lack of sturdy proof that it's any better than standard surgical operation generally — and it's usually costlier.
CHICAGO (AP) — The largest thing in operating rooms at the present time is a million-buck, multi-armed robotic named da Vinci, utilized in just about four hundred,000 surgeries nationwide ultimate year — triple the number just 4 years prior.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A brand new global plan targets to end most instances of polio via late next year, and primarily eradicate the paralyzing illness by 2018 — if authorities can raise the $5.5 billion needed to do the work, well being officers stated Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's process in exceptional detail, as a step toward finding higher the right way to treat such stipulations as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and worrying brain accidents.
LONDON (AP) — After crocheting a colourful blanket, Joan Ferguson snuggled up below it one night and proudly idea: "That is one groovy blanket. I'm sensible."
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is asking appeals judges to reinstate a ban on supersized sodas and other sugary drinks, which was struck down by way of a Long island choose the day sooner than it used to be to go into effect.
NEW YORK (AP) — Executive health officers launched the 2nd spherical of a graphic advert marketing campaign Thursday that’s designed to get people who smoke off tobacco, saying they believe the final effort definite tens of lots to give up.
NEW YORK (AP) — An enormous international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic assessments on 200,000 individuals has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can assist divulge additional a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists stated Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) — The flu season is winding down, and it has killed one hundred and five kids up to now — in regards to the reasonable toll.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years, two elections, and one Supreme Court docket decision after President Barack Obama signed the Reasonably priced Care Act, its promise of well being care for the uninsured may be delayed or undercut in a lot of the united states as a result of entrenched opposition […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's most influential pediatrician's staff says gays should be allowed to marry to help be certain that the well being and neatly-being of their kids.
LONDON (AP) — Younger males who have served within the British militia are about 3 times more likely than civilians to have committed a violent offense, researchers suggested Friday in a learn about that explores the roots of such conduct.
LONDON (AP) — The new pope has daunting challenges in advance starting from the church sex abuse scandal to reinvigorating the flock.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dear robotic surgical operation shouldn't be the primary or even 2nd possibility for most girls who need a hysterectomy, says advice issued Thursday to medical doctors who help those ladies make a decision.
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a 2011 Idaho law that banned most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, ruling that the measure is unconstitutional. Idaho is one in all numerous states which have enacted late-time period abortion prohibitions in up to date years in […]
