Medical Devices
Facts about Uterine Fibroid Removal Surgery
What are Uterine Fibroids?
Uterine fibroids are benign tumors - uncontrolled cell growths - that develop on the inner lining of the uterus, ranging from the size of a pea to that of a grapefruit. Fibroids can cause a host of unpleasant symptoms, such as dis...
Fibroid Removal Surgery Procedures
There are three main types of fibroid removal surgery:
Endometrial Ablation
Myomectomy
Hysterectomy
Most are surgical, requiring some form of anesthesia; others are less invasive and do not interfere with pregnancy.
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What Every Woman Should Know Before Undergoing Robotic Surgery
Robotic SurgeryRobots performing surgery sounds like something out of the future, right? Well it's something of the present, and in fact quite prevalent.Robotic assisted surgery in gynecologic procedures has risen in the past couple of years; for examp...
The Danger of Power Morcellation Surgery in Treating Uterine Fibroids
According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 80% of African American women and 70% of Caucasian women will develop uterine fibroids, benign tumors that grow in the uterus, by the age of 50. Although no one knows exactly what causes these growths, ...
An End To Animal Testing?
A bizarre, new technique may forever change the way heart medications are tested.Up until now, the only way to test the efficacy and side effects of heart medicines was to experiment on animals and human patients. A British doctor, Dr. Helen Maddock, has p...
What You Should Know Before Going Under
An Illinois woman named Brandi Chabalowski is seeing red after a laparoscopic surgery left her with second- and third-degree burns.Also known as keyhole surgery, laparoscopic surgery is a minimally invasive technique wherein doctors do not have to make a ...
Die-alysis
When a person's kidneys fail to work often times their only choice is to rely on a machine to clean their blood for them. In order to receive this treatment most dialysis patients have their less dominant arm "revamped" in order to accommodate the "life-saving...
Technology Advances, But Risks Remain
To live in this day and age is a blessing. Advances in medicine are happening faster than any other time in history. Who would have believed fifty years ago that robots would be performing surgery on humans?To be fair, these robots are not sentient beings....
Hysterectomy & Myomectomy Patients Are At Risk
The FDA has issued a potentially life saving warning about uterine fibroids that every woman should read.Uterine fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that grow within the wall of the uterus. One study shows that by age 50, more than half of all American women...
This common medical “fix” has faults
Faulty hip joints implanted in tens of thousands of Americans pose adverse health effects in some patients even after removal, according to new research.Doctors have known for several years that some hip devices, in which both the ball and cup are made of ...