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Strange medical gadgets/procedures...

Still in the developmental stage is the internal bra. Yes, a bra that is inserted under the skin and hung from the shoulders and is meant to uplift the breasts. Although this may help those women who have asymmetrical breasts due to nature, disease or accidents, it is hard to see who else would want to go this far to achieve the perfect bust line. Those who want to augment their breasts still have to go the way of saline...

Medical helpers...

A lot of people, as they get older, tend to forget some of their medical details and get a little confused about illnesses and medications that they have taken in the past. A clever little device has come onto the market that will end all those uncertainties and that is the 911 personal ID card. Entered onto this neat item, the size of a credit card, are any details of the person concerned. Heart attacks, allergies or...

Obesity now as much a threat as smoking...

If you thought quitting smoking would improve the overall quality of health of the American people, you are mistaken. The rise in obesity has equaled, if not exceeded the burden of disease among Americans in comparison to smoking. Researchers from Columbia University and The City College of New York have recently found that the Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost because of obesity is equal to, if not greater than...

There’s nothing better than exercise for pat...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a serious health problem affecting millions of people in the US leading to limb amputations in many cases. Exercise has long been considered by doctors to be the single best therapy for PAD, and a new study conducted by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has successfully explained why. They have found that a protein called PGC-1alpha plays a major role in the process. Zoltan...