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Healthy Moms Dictionary - Aneurysm
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Cascia T.
Aneurysms are more common than most people think. Today the Healthy Moms Dictionary will explore all the different types of aneurysms with a major focus on brain aneurysms. An aneurysm is a localized widening of a vein, artery or the heart. There is usually a bulge at the point of the aneurysm. There are several different types ...
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Learn the Facts Behind Aneurysms [Digg]
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Cascia T.
Aneurysms are more common than most people think. This article explores all the different types of aneurysms with a major focus on brain aneurysms. An aneurysm is a localized widening of a vein, artery or the heart. There is usually a bulge at the point of the aneurysm.
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Stephanie Tubbs Jones- A Great American!
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A. Brewster S.
I was shocked to hear of the passing of Stephanie Tubbs Jones yesterday from a brain aneurysm. What is so difficult to fathom about an aneurysm is that it comes with no calling card for most. But, for the vivacious and dynamic Jones, she was as always ...
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Interesting story on how she awo ...
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Medical Quack
... called hypothermic arrest, though many use its nickname "standstill." Developed by cardiac surgeons in the 1960s, the surgery can be used to remove some previously inoperable brain aneurysms.Once Reynolds's aneurysm was cauterized and clipped, the bypass pump was restarted. When her body temperature was high enough, Spetzler had to shock Reynolds' ...
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shooting pain/lightning headaches
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Janet G.
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Occasionally, I suffer from little spasms of pain in my brain. They're always unilateral, usually on the right side. Today it's been happening again, and I'm not worried about it--I'm just aggravated and in pain for a few seconds ...
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New York Times Gives the Candidates a Checkup
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Stephanie C.
... preads to other areas of the body. Even when it is not fatal, treatments "can be debilitating and impair an individual's physical and mental stamina."Meanwhile, Biden had two brain aneurysms in 1988 and we do not know if he has had any brain scans during the past 20 years. Obama's one-page medical report was almost laughable in contrast to McCain's ...
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Maryland Hospitals Take Patients to Court
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Medical Quack
... liens on homes of patients who owed them money, according to the Sun.Take the case of Willie Mae White, who ended up with a $36,224 bill after having emergency surgery for a brain aneurysm at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in 2005. Living off Social Security and food stamps, she was relieved when told she’d get charity care — until she later ...
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Marathon Runner Collapses, Dies
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... hospital. Peter Norman Curtin was a graduate student at MIT. The marathon, which has been held for nine years, experienced a death during its first run, but that was due to a brain aneurysm. Until a coroner does an autopsy on Mr. Curtin, the cause of his death is not known. What the hospital spokesperson did say is that Mr. Curtin’s core temperatur ...
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BK Virus Increasing
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Jeff ..
... ’t even get a fever.I added a new blog to my Blogroll, Because I Can. It’s the ongoing story of Ashley Baltazar, a 19 year old with Polycystic Kidney Disease who developed a brain aneurysm near her brain stem. It’s written by Lori Schneider, a features editor for a local community newspaper. Lori is chronicling Ashley’s long journey through this ...
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Cerebral Aneurism surgery Can be performed with Catheters
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Medical Quack
... and went home the next day with a band aid on her leg and returned to work in a day. BD Norma Wooley checked into Loyola University Hospital on a recent Monday morning for brain surgery to repair a life-threatening aneurism (also: aneurysm). She went home on Tuesday, cured of the slurred speech, drooping face and worst headache of her life.Wool ...
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