A young girl’s love of mathematics not only helped her excel in school – but it also saved her life.
Vicki Alex, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September, was placed in a medically induced coma after her condition started to deteriorate last month, The Daily Mail reported.
Doctors were unable to guarantee that she [...]
Well, this story from The Sun is one you don’t hear everyday!
A woman obsessed with eating cutlery had to go under the knife to remove 78 forks and spoons from her stomach.
Doctors said every time Margaret Daalman, of Rotterdam, Holland, would sit down for a meal, she would ignore the food and “eat” the [...]
I’m glad someone finally wrote this article! Here it is, brought to you by Claire Suddath of TIME Magazine.
Too much sugar will make you fat, but too much artificial sweetener will … do what exactly? Kill you? Make you thinner? Or have absolutely no effect at all? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the [...]
A new food rating system that analyzes both nutrition and cost value of food may now make it easier for people to find budget-friendly, nutritious foods in today’s tough economy. The Affordable Nutrition Index (ANI), unveiled at the American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo by leading nutrition expert Adam Drewnowski, PhD, professor [...]
The mother of the nation’s first double hand transplant patient says he’s out of the hospital and looking forward to returning to his wife and daughter in Georgia.
Doris Schafer told the Intelligencer Journal-Lancaster New Era that her son, Jeff Kepner, visited her over the weekend in Lancaster. She says he plans to return to Augusta, [...]
This is a pretty amazing story from the New York Post:
A New York City girl who survived a 7-story fall says the medical care she’s received has inspired her to want to become a doctor.
Eight-year-old Destiny Antonio fell from a broken window in her family’s Bronx public housing apartment in August.
She’s recovering from a shattered [...]
I just read a great report from Fox News Health, on the benefits of dog companions for children living with autism. Studies show children accompanied by these “autism dogs” prove to be calmer in stressful situations, navigate transitions with ease and are less likely to run or walk into traffic.
The current debate is whether the [...]
Fewer Americans are afraid that they will be unable to pay for health-care services and fewer expect to postpone medical treatments due to costs, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published on Monday.
Researchers found a steady increase in people’s confidence about their ability to pay for health-care services — it rose 12 percent between March [...]
At Southwest Medical we feel that it is important to keep up to date with developments in the medical community. We recently found an article discussing how new X-ray technology could possibly be used for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.
The new X-ray technique is one that they have used recently with breast tissue and cartilage [...]
Here is a great article from Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel about one of GE’s latest advancements in MRI equipment.
When General Electric Co. announced a plan three months ago to expand the global presence of its medical technology division, it was unclear how it would affect the thousands of GE employees in southeastern Wisconsin.
GE, after all, had [...]