Doctors use cold to attack tumors in new cryoablation trend
In a growing medical trend, doctors employ cryoablation to freeze and kill tumors. It aims to treat liver, prostate, kidney cancers, and benign breast tumors without surgery, aided by advanced imaging to target only diseased tissue and reduce scarring.
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Gary Onik
Onik
Urology
Florida Hospital
Celebration Health
Sanarus Medical Inc
Imhof’s
Slim athletic people more likely to get Lou Gehrigs disease
Columbia University researchers analyzed 381 individuals with motor neuron conditions or other neurological diseases. They found those who were slim or had normal weight before illness were more likely to develop motor neuron disease, with increased odds tied to being varsity athletes and low BMI. The study, appearing in Neurology, cites figures 2.21 and 1.70 for these associations and references Gehrig as a historical example of the condition.
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Lou Gehrig
Columbia University
Nikolaos Scarmeas
Scarmeas
Neurology
American Academy of Neurology
Gehrig
Yankees
Woman's death signals risks of Lap-Band weight loss
Detroit AP reports the death of councilwoman Brenda Scott after Lap-Band Adjustable Gastric Banding, a FDA approved noose around the stomach. The 47 year old weighed above 300 pounds and died from infection due to stomach perforation three days post surgery at Port Huron Hospital.
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Brenda Scott
Port Huron Hospital
Scott
Food and Drug Administration
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Public Service Commission hearing on Bluefield sewer rate rise
The Public Service Commission of West Virginia will hold a hearing at Bluefield City Hall on September 24, 2002, regarding Bluefield sewer rate increases adopted June 11 2002. Also covered are a civil forfeiture petition for $692 to Kevin Eugene Petty and notices regarding a $123 seizure tied to the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
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Public Service Commission OF
West Virginia
Charleston
S-Ma
Bluefield
Tazewell County Public Service Authority
Public Service Commission
Municipal Board Room
Bluefield City Hall
Rogers Street
United States
Bluefield Police
Ramsey Street
Kevin Eugene Petty
Brenda Davis
Mercer County
William J. Sadler
Southern
Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force
Jefferson Street
Donald McClure, Jr
Circuit
Elaine Pedneau
Mercer County hearing and bid notices for local funds and shelter
A September 16 2002 hearing in Mercer County Commission chambers will address use of FY 2002 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant funds and public objections to a gas and oil operation proposed by CONSOL Energy Inc on the Berwind Land Co tract in Tazewell County Virginia. Separate notice announces sealed bids by Mercer County for a one room animal shelter addition with mandatory pre bid conference September 11 and bid opening September 18.
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Mercer County Commission
Mercer County
Code of Virginia
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Division of Gas and Oil
Berwind Land Co
Maiden Springs
Tazewell County
Virginia
Division of Gas and Oil
Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy
P.O. Box
Abingdon
Consol Energy Inc
Bluefield
Sale St. Rd
Hwy. 16
Bishop
Regina Mullins
Circuit Court
Tazewell
Main Street
T. H. Crockett
Nannie R. Crockett
P.G. Shrader
T.H. Crockett
Samuel I. White
P.C
Business Park
Virginia Beach
Mercer County Commerciar
Princeton
Mercer County Animal Shelter
County Commission
E. T. Boggess
Architect, Inc
Rockledge Avenue
Mercer County Courthouse
U.S
E.T. Boggess
West Virginia
Davis-Bacon
Joe Coeburn
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