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Children with severe to profound hearing loss under evaluation for cochlear implantation have traditionally been given a three to six month hearing aid trial to verify that they don't receive sufficient audiometric and speech benefit from hearing aids before proceeding with cochlear implantation. [ read more »
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Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy exercise after elective primary total knee arthroplasty in patients with osteoarthritis.rnDesign Systematic review.rnData sources Database searches: AMED, CINAHL, Embase, King's Fund, Medline, Cochrane library (Cochrane reviews, Cochr read more »
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A genetic test which may improve accurate diagnosis of prostate cancer is launched in the UK. read more »
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Statin drugs that help lower cholesterol may also be beneficial in preventing glaucoma progression according to the Wiley-Blackwell journal - Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology. However, there was no significant effect on the eye disease if the subject had taken statin drugs together with aspiri read more »
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A ten year study of bone fractures among post-menopausal women has found that the absolute risk of a second clinical fracture is highest in the five years after any first clinical fracture. The absolute risk for a first clinical fracture is lower and depends on osteoporosis and age. The research, p read more »
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Department of Urology and Pediatric Urology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Langenbeckstraße 1, 55101, Mainz, Germany, Roos@urologie.klinik.uni-mainz.de read more »
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Urology Robotics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA read more »
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For orthopaedic implants to be successful, bone must meld to the metal that these artificial hips, knees and shoulders are made of. A team of Brown University engineers, led by Thomas Webster, has discovered a new material that could significantly increase this success rate.The team took titanium - read more »
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The 15 minutes it took to remove Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett off the field after he suffered a spinal cord injury may seem like a long time for someone needing acute medical care, but in fact, those minutes underscore how critical it is to carefully move a player with a suspected spinal cord read more »
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