In recent years, lye products have come into common household use in Turkey. Unfortunately, we have noted more cases of serious corrosive esophagitis owing to accidental caustic agent ingestion. The aims of this study were to (1) evaluate our experience with these cases and (2) investigate the effects of long-term intraesophageal polytetraflourethylene stenting on esophageal [...]
A feat of biological alchemy that offers scientists the hope of growing replacement organs from patients’ own skin cells has been named the scientific breakthrough of the year. Cellular reprogramming allows scientists to rewind the developmental clock of adult cells to produce stem cells, which can then be grown into completely different tissues, such as [...]
Sure, you sneeze when you’ve got a cold. But some sneezes may happen just by thinking about sex or having an orgasm, British doctors report. Mahmood Bhutta, a specialist in ear-nose-and-throat surgery at England’s Wexham Park Hospital, writes of a colleague who once had a patient who “described uncontrollable fits of sneezing” immediately after having [...]
After more than a week of does she or doesn’t she chatter, Obama supporter and childhood education activist Caroline Kennedy has made her intentions for Hillary Clinton’s New York senate more clear. The New York Times recently wrote that Kennedy wants the job.Some are surprised. Kennedy has spent nearly all of her life out of [...]
Watching romantic comedies can spoil your love life, a study by a university in Edinburgh has claimed. Rom-coms have been blamed by relationship experts at Heriot Watt University for promoting unrealistic expectations when it comes to love. They found fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Notting Hill often fail to communicate with [...]
So I have been fallowing the Caylee Anthony story for some time now. Actually since it first came out. I am so irritated with the Anthony’s family stupidity. I mean come on, how are you going to say that you have a lead on where your grand daughter is and then say your going [...]
Jack Young’s world revolves around his daughters.
The 50-year-old single father schedules his days around Jaclyn, 5, and LeonaRose, 3 — waking and dressing them in the morning; arranging transportation to their kindergarten and preschool classes; cooking their meals; tucking the girls in at night.
The former construction worker even plays games with the pair and braids [...]
The Human papillomavirus Virus, or HPV, comes in many forms, (over 100!), but there are 4 strains of the virus that account for a majority of cervical cancer, and genital warts. It is the most common sexually transmitted disease, and it infects the mucus membranes and skin. While most cases of HPV are documented in [...]
Advances in medical science now allow limbs to be reattached, organs to be replaced, and babies to be born to women with fertility issues who had previously been unable to conceive. These advances prolong and provide life, but at times there is a cost to these medical miracles. One such cost is that infants conceived [...]
A congressionally mandated scientific panel has concluded that Gulf War syndrome is real and still afflicts nearly a quarter of the 700,000 U.S. troops who served in the 1991 conflict, according to a report released Monday.
The report broke with most earlier studies by concluding that two chemical exposures were direct causes of the disorder: the [...]