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Can Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Surgery Inadvertently Spread Cancers?

U.S. surgeons perform approximately 600,000 hysterectomies a year, making it the second most common female surgery. Traditional hysterectomy surgery is very invasive; the surgeon makes a 4-inch incision into the abdomen that results in a prolonged hospital stay and a slow and somewhat painful recovery. Enter laparoscopic power morcellation, supposedly the perfect minimally invasive medical…

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Traumatic Brain Injury: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Offers New Hope

Traumatic brain injuries or TBI’s leave long lasting and sometimes invisible symptoms for their victims.  They may not realize that their changes in mood, behavior, and thinking abilities may have been altered by TBI. Because these invisible impairments tend to go undetected, they can often plague a person’s life for weeks, months, or even years.  Now a…

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