Taking a Shot at Pain Relief After Knee Replacement
Latest Arthritis News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) Researchers may have found a new way to help ease the pain of knee replacement surgery: infusing morphine directly into the shin bone. The findings come from a recent study of 48 patients undergoing total knee replacement. The investigators found that […]
Doctors Transplant Kidneys to Children Without Need for Immune-Suppressing Drugs
Latest Digestion News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) Researchers have figured out a way to safely give children a donor kidney without the need for immune-suppressing drugs — an advance they hope to expand to many more kidney transplant patients in coming years. Reporting in the June 15 issue […]
High-Tech Pacemaker Reads Body Signals, Dissolves After Use
Latest Heart News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, May 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) Researchers are another step closer to bringing heart patients a temporary “smart” pacemaker that simply dissolves once it’s no longer needed. Pacemakers are devices that are implanted to help control certain abnormal heart rhythms, by sending electrical pulses to the heart […]
Autopsy Helps Confirm Cause of Mysterious Paralyzing Illness in Kids
Latest Infectious Disease News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) Researchers may finally have definitive proof of what’s caused recent outbreaks of a rare polio-like illness in U.S. children: a respiratory virus that is usually harmless. The condition, called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), attacks tissue in the spinal cord, causing […]