Mind and Body - Page 778

November 20, 2014

15 Cases of Whooping Cough Detected in Montana, Health Officials Expect Number to Rise

Heath officials in Gallatin County say they've confirmed 15 cases of whooping cough, including 14 at Bozeman High School

November 20, 2014

Surgeons Try Deep-Chilling Trauma Patients to Save Them

Suspended animation may not be just for sci-fi movies anymore: Trauma surgeons soon will try plunging some critically injured people into a deep chill — cooling their body temperatures as low as 50 degrees — in hopes of saving their lives

November 20, 2014

FDA Tests Pet Food Amid Reports of Owner Illnesses

The Food and Drug Administration has begun a nationwide effort to test pet food for salmonella contamination amid evidence it is sickening pet owners

November 20, 2014

Teen's Leg Operated on in Two Hospitals Simultaneously

Doctors saved a teenage cancer sufferer's leg by removing part of the limb and taking it to another hospital for treatment—before reattaching it while the boy was still on the operating table

November 20, 2014

Talk Therapy by Phone May Ease Fibromyalgia, Study Says

Talk therapy done over the phone helped some people suffering chronic fibromyalgia-related pain to feel better in a study that looked at phone therapy as a potential cost-effective alternative to standard treatments

November 20, 2014

Doctors Rebuild Student's Skull That Was Shattered Into 30 Pieces

A British student left for dead by a hit-and-run driver recovered after surgeons rebuilt his skull -- which was shattered into 30 pieces

November 20, 2014

Jury Finds Unlicensed Cosmetologist Guilty in Silicone Buttocks Injection Death

An unlicensed cosmetologist was found guilty by a New York jury Thursday of criminally negligent homicide in the March 2009 death of one of her patients who was getting silicone injections in her buttocks and thigh

November 20, 2014

Autopsy on URI Athlete Inconclusive

State officials say an autopsy has turned up no signs of why a University of Rhode Island baseball player died last week after collapsing during a team workout, and more tests will be performed

November 20, 2014

RI Investigates Report of Medication Mix-Up

State health officials are investigating whether five Rhode Island hospitals gave 2,000 patients the wrong form of their medications

November 20, 2014

Student Falls Four Feet From Dorm Bed, Paralyzed From Neck Down

He went to sleep drunk in his Fordham University dormitory bed -- and woke up in a hospital paralyzed from the neck down