| Awake and in pain under the knife
As the cancer patient lay on the operating room table, she felt the surgeon remove her intestines and splay them over her abdomen. Terrified, she was awake but unable to provide a signal -- a wiggle of a toe, the bat of an eyelash -- to communicate the excruciating pain she was suffering. Paralyzed by drugs commonly used during surgery, the woman was trapped in a body that could feel and hear but could not move as a surgeon sliced a tumour from her cecum, a small pouch connected to the colon, deep inside her abdomen. "I couldn't breath[e] and was very scared. I can't find adequate words to describe the horror," she wrote in a letter to the Health Services Appeal and Review Board, made public for the first time today. ". . . I felt my intestines pop out of my body very quickly and they were laid on the right side of my body." Her intestines, she wrote, felt very warm.
Glaucoma may not progress in certain people - new study
A small subgroup of Chinese men with suspected or diagnosed glaucoma may not need aggressive treatment, because the condition does not appear to progress, a new study suggests. In the medical journal Ophthalmology, Dr. Amish Doshi of California'sStanford University and colleagues report on a series of 16 patients originally diagnosed with glaucoma whose condition did not progress over a 7-year period. More research is needed to better understand how common this type of slowing or non-progressing glaucoma is among males of Chinese origin, the researchers say. In the most common type of glaucoma, open-angle glaucoma, fluid cannot drain properly from the eyeball, leading to increased pressure within the eye and resulting in damage to the optic nerve. It may be treated with medication to lower pressure in the eye, and surgery may be performed to restore normal drainage.
Vietnam’s hospitals: cheap, good, but not favoured
VietNamNet Bridge - Many hospitals in Vietnam are recognized to have good and cheap services compared to foreign ones but they can't attract foreigners who are working and living in Vietnam. Early March 2007, Katharina, the daughter of Joachim Gromotka, technical advisor to a health project in Vietnam, had a high temperature. The girl was brought to the SOS Clinic. Doctors said that Katharina had one kind of unclear fever. One week later, her health became worse and her kidney almost didn't work. The family was advised to bring Katharina to Bangkok (Thailand) or Singapore. The family made a midnight phone call to the Vietnam - France Hospital. This hospital diagnosed that the girl might need kidney support machine. However, the hospital doesn't have this service and they also advised the family to transfer Katharina to Thailand or Singapore. Joachim phoned to a hospital in Bangkok and an airplane and doctors from Thailand came to Hanoi to pick up Katharina to Thailand. The girl was admitted to a hospital in Bangkok 30 hours later, on March 15.
People on the move
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER PUBLISHING INSTITUTE: Named Joyce Meskis, owner and manager of Tattered Cover Book Store, as director of the institute beginning in January. She will succeed Elizabeth Geiser, who is retiring after more than 30 years as the founding director of the program. MCWHINNEY: Announced that Jay Hardy has started as vice president of community affairs. He was formerly director of The Ranch/Budweiser Events Center. INSTITUTE FOR LUXURY HOME MARKETING: Awarded Amanda S. DiVito of Re/Max Alliance with the certified luxury home marketing specialist designation. BASIC EARTH SCIENCE SYSTEMS INC.: Appointed Monroe W. Robertson to fill a new seat on the board of directors. BLACK DIAMOND CAPITAL: Steve S. Chun recently joined the firm as business development director and lobbyist.
More black women trying cosmetic surgery, some experts question ...
WASHINGTON (Special to the NNPA from the Howard University News Service) - Rachel (not her real name) has always committed herself to living a healthy lifestyle. She is a vegetarian, watches her diet closely, and can be found in the gym daily. However, after a myectomy and endometriosis Rachel noticed excess weight in her midsection. "I started developing this stomach that I did not have before," says Rachel, who asked to conceal her identity because of stigmas associated with cosmetic surgery. "I could see if I did not exercise and was overweight. It looked [as] though I was pregnant." After years of camouflaging her stomach, Rachel decided to research surgical options to free her from the discomfort of accentuating her abdominal area. Her hair stylist referred her to Dr.
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