Immersion Therapy Shows Promise for Pain Relief
AP reports Medical College of Ohio researchers say immersion therapy may treat pain. Patients float in a 94.5 degree epsom salt bath in a dark, soundproof tank to reduce stress and pain, with several showing significant relief after multiple sessions.
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Toledo
Medical College of Ohio
Thomas Fine
Fine
John Turner
Steven Essick
The
Third World struggles with childbirth and ethics of tech advances
In San Francisco Western medicine debates costs and ethics of high tech maternal care while Nigeria and other developing nations face basic needs. Neonatal clinics with simple weighing devices are valued as essential, and only 20 percent of births occur with trained care. Many babies die from poverty and lack of access.
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San Francisco
Vincent EB Aimakhu
New Bendel State University of
Nigeria
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Federation
San Franciscos
Agai
Angele Petros- Barvazian
World Health Organization
Division of
Family Health
Keith Russell
Los Angeles
Inner City
California Hospital Medical Center
Russell
Third World
Ms. Senanayake
Miracle operation gives sight to blind infant in Pittsburgh
Sam Atwood, born blind from cloudy corneas and glaucoma, gained partial sight after cornea transplants in infancy at Eye & Ear Hospital. Surgeon Dr Stuart Brown notes infant transplants are rare, with about two thirds success and risks including glaucoma. early intervention and careful suture removal are crucial for graft survival. Joy Atwood praises the life-changing outcome for her son now reading enlarged print and attending school.
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Pittsburgh
Sam Atwood
Sam
Eye & Ear Hospital
Joy Atwood
East Waterboro
Maine
Neeps
Stuart Brown
University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Brown
Bae Heye
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Claude Sureau
Beaudelocque Clinic
Paris
Pramilla Senanayake
Sri Lanka
International Planned Parenthood Federation
London
Aimakhu
United Nations
Pakistan