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Lynne Yurosko, a 56 years old woman, went to lumpectomy and 25 cycles of radiotherapy and she never had breast cancer.
Yurosko’s biopsy samples were switched with another woman by a terrible made by Quest Diagnostics in Garden City.
Imagine the situation of the other woman.
Quest Diagnostics; the Nassau Radiologic Group, a medical and testing center with […]

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A french surgical team leaded by Dominique Martin has performed the first surgery in a zero-gravity flight. The patient a 46 years old male, was a volunteer and he just needed local anesthesia in the forearm.
The procedure was successful, and the chief surgeon said: […]

The 2006 National Survey for Health and Nutrition in Mexico (Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición 2006, a.k.a. ENSANUT) revealed that among mexican adults, 70 percent have obesity or overweight.
There were not states in the Mexican Republic with smaller prevalence to 55 percent.
Campeche, Chihuahua, Durango, México City, Estado de México, Quintana Roo, Sonora, South Baja […]

Everyone have a predilection of a rare surgical procedure.
My favorite surgical procedure is the left thoracoabdominal esophagogastrectomy (proximal esophagogastrectomy with esophagogastrostomy), it is a difficult and plaintiff procedure and not too common, because of its high morbidity and mortality rates.
I have been assisting on once recently and it was nice to be there. Here is […]

Two patients with alopecia areata and tiny hypochromic skin lesions. They both were inspected under Wood’s Lamp examination and confirm the diagnosis of vitiligo.

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O.k. this is too much for me, a couple of weeks ago, when I arrived home, I had found the usual spam in my mailbox (physical, not electronic); but also it was a bag with a couple of pills inside.

The so called “Nopaesbelt”, cures obesity, diabetes and “cholesterol” (so cholesterol is a disease?)

It also works […]

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