Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study…
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There’s a new interventional radiology tool showing promise in the treatment of uterine fibroids: magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS), a minimally invasive treatment that uses high-energy ultrasound waves to generate heat at a specific point to destroy uterine fibroid tissue and relieve symptoms…
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After struggling for decades “to win support from the scientific community,” contraceptive researchers have “re-established themselves as dedicated to a deserving craft with impressive developments that redefine conventional birth control,” according to a Slate opinion piece by Jennifer Austin, a medical school graduate who is beginning an obstetrics and gynecology residency this summer…
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UroToday.com - Vesicovaginal fistula has been a medical and social problem and remains a surgical challenge, especially when it requires re-operation, presents large size, involves the ureter and is associated with radiotherapy. In this paper, we describe our experience with complex urogenital fistulas…
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Uterine fibroid embolization, a minimally invasive interventional radiology procedure that blocks blood supply to treat painful uterine fibroids, has a comparable fertility rate to myomectomy, the surgical removal of uterine fibroids, for women who want to conceive, according to the first study on the subject released at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 35th Annual Sci…
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Men and women with a history of alcohol abuse may not see long-term negative effects on their memory and thinking, but female smokers do, a new study suggests. In a study of 287 men and women ages 31 to 60, researchers found that those with past alcohol-use disorders performed similarly on standard tests of cognitive [...]
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“Calling the subjugation of women a threat to American security, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary [Rodham] Clinton made a vibrant plea to give equal rights to women around the world,” during a speech a the U.N. on Friday, Agence France-Presse reports…
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The U.S. avoided a debate on abortion during a two-week United Nations conference assessing women’s rights that ended on Friday, the AP/Yahoo! News reports. In contrast, during the 2005 conference, the Bush administration fought to insert language saying that women did not have a guaranteed right to abortion in the conference’s final declaration…
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Maternal deaths in the U.S. have doubled over the last 20 years, according to a new report from Amnesty International that frames the issue “as part of a systematic violation of women’s rights,” Time reports. The report, titled “Deadly Delivery,” found that more than two women die of pregnancy-related causes each day in the U.S. [...]
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African Americans and Hispanic patients are increasingly less likely than whites to receive high-quality brain cancer treatment, a study has found.
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