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Risks and Side Effects of Uterine Fibroids Treatment
Uterine Fibroid Treatment Side Effects
The serious uterine fibroid treatment side effects of hysterectomies and myomectomies slowly led physicians to develop “safer,” less invasive, non-surgical alternatives. However, patients have discovered the hard way...
You Are What You Eat: The Good and Bad of Chicken Farming
The next time you sit down to a chicken dinner, or even a bag of nuggets, you might give a thought to the chicken. Did it spend its life in an animal paradise like Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm? Lots of fresh air, good food, sunlight, room to roam? Watch the vi...
The Keystone XL Pipeline Debate Rages On Despite Profitless Projections
The politically charged debate surrounding the expansion of Canada’s Keystone XL Pipeline into the Midwestern United States continues. Although many assert the project still has merit, a prominent argument based on the falling price of oil insists that it no...
The Nuclear Reactor That Will Change the World
Indian engineers have designed a new type of nuclear reactor that will be safer, smaller, cleaner, cheaper and last longer than its disgraced predecessors.The reactor being planned at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Mumbai will be the first operation...
A Cure for Obesity and Diabetes
Researchers at Indiana University and the German Research Center for Environmental Health recently announced they developed a new treatment for obesity and adult-onset diabetes. They claim their treatment improved glucose sensitivity, reduced appetite and ...
What the “frack”: Flammable Water
Water: essential to life, multi-useful, and... flammable?Fire water. What an oxymoron. Residents of areas rich in natural gas have noticed that their tap water is able to catch on fire. How does one find this out, you may ask? Well, that's all part of the ...
Laparoscopic Power Morcellation Side Effects
Hundreds of thousands of American women have undergone laparoscopic power morcellation myomectomy or hysterectomy to remove uterine fibroids. The vast majority were never informed of the serious risks involved in this procedure, which have only recently been...
Cheap and Easy Fibroid Removal Surgery Has Some Serious Side Effects
Fibroid Removal Surgery Side Effects
Uterine fibroid removal surgery presents a number of side effects and risk, as do all surgical procedures. A uterine fibroid removal surgery that has been surging in popularity lately is called laparoscopic uterine fibro...
Uterine Fibroid Embolization, a Safer Alternative to Surgery
Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) works by injecting small particles to block the blood vessels feeding the tumors. Without a blood supply, the fibroids wither, die and detach from the uterine wall within a matter of days. The particles—“emboli”—are deliver...
Common Fibroids Surgery Risks and Side Effects
Uterine Fibroids Surgery Side Effects
There are two kinds of fibroid removal surgery, myomectomies and hysterectomies, and there are two of each, abdominal and laparoscopic. A myomectomy removes only the fibroids themselves, while a hysterectomy removes the...