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 Surgery
 
  • Can exercise and herbals help existing hernias?
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  • CANCER: An alternative that offers real hope
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  • Cancer: The 33 years (and still counting)
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  • Eye care’s a rollercoaster ride
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  • Hernia - Just wait it out and see
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  • Joint replacement: hidden blood loss
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  • Otitis Media: Try osteopathy before grommets
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  • Parkinson’s: When drug treatments fail
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  • Reader's Corner: Lymphoma:
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  • Scar tissue: Scar tissue
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  • So you think you need . . . Circumcision
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  • THE MOST COMMON UNNECESSARY OPERATIONS
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  • Tinnitus and bladder prolapse
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  • Varicose veins
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    Surgery-related deaths
     
  • Low haemoglobin affects success of bypass surgery
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    Surgery-related disease
     
  • UPDATES: Cancer cells spread during surgery
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  • UPDATES: Prostate surgery spreads cancer
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    Surgery-related disorders
     
  • So you think you need . . . A tubal ligation
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    Surgery-related infection
     
  • DEADLY INFECTIONS
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  • JOINT REPLACEMENT: Shot in the foot
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    Surgical ablation
     
  • HYSTERECTOMIES: Is this really the only 'cure' for heavy periods?
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    Surgical biopsy
     
  • CASE STUDY
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    Surgical choices
     
  • WHICH BYPASS? Each seems to have its problems
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    Surgical complications
     
  • Back Pain: The dangers of surgery: More westerners than ever suffer from low back pain, but conventional treatments-surgery, injections, anaesthesia-often make the problem worse.
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  • Breast surgery causes relapse
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  • CASE STUDY: At the hands of the butcher's knife
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  • CASE STUDY: Hip operation success story
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  • Going to hospital: And surviving your stay there
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  • JOINT REPLACEMENT: Shot in the foot
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  • KEYHOLE SURGERY: The doctor as video games player
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  • News: Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure
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  • News: Catheter use - don’t let facts spoil a cherished procedure
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  • NEWS: Complications with quarter of breast implants
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  • NEWS: Defibrillators don't benefit patients after heart attack
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  • NEWS: Hair transplants: dying for a full head of it
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  • NEWS: Keyhole hernia op: more complications than open surgery
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  • Organ injury during laparoscopy affects quality of life
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  • Pacemakers: Missing the beat
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  • QUESTIONS FROM READERS
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  • Surgery alert - Elective surgery Beta-blocker shocker
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  • TREATMENT OF THE MONTH: Anal fissures or tears are a common problem, often brought about by straining when constipated.
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  • UPDATES: Incontinence more likely in women having hysterectomy
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  • Womb operation: fatal side effects
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    Surgical consequences
     
  • The patient has our sponge
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    Surgical errors
     
  • Fractures: poor track record
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    Surgical implants
     
  • HEARING IMPLANTS: They can cause meningitis
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  • So you think you need . . . A total hip replacement
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    Surgical implements
     
  • The patient has our sponge
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    Surgical instruments
     
  • THIS BURNING SENSATION IN YOUR STROMACH: Is it the surgeon’s cigarett
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    Surgical intervention
     
  • EMERGENCY OR ELECTIVE
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  • So you think you need . . . An episiotomy So you think you need . . .: If you must have an episiotomy . . . to help the healing process after the operation:
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  • So you think you need . . . An episiotomy
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    Surgical interventions
     
  • CAESAREAN: If you follow the guidelines, make sure you don't face a mu
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  • GLUE EAR: Don't operate
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  • UPDATES: Epidurals are good for doctors
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    Surgical mistakes
     
  • Hospital horrors make me hope I never have to go
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    Surgical nerve decompression
     
  • The best alternative treatment for . . . Bell’s palsy
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    Surgical practices
     
  • CANCER: LESS IS MORE
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    Surgical procedure
     
  • So you think you need . . . A colostomy
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    Surgical procedures
     
  • FAT CHANCE: Liposuction isn't such a great diet
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  • QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK
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  • Surgeon’s skills decline after a night on call
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    Surgical removal
     
  • Ganglion cysts
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    Surgical risk
     
  • So you think you need . . . A total hip replacement: Safer surgery
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    Surgical risk factors
     
  • So you think you need . . . A vasectomy: If you must have the operation . . .
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    Surgical risks
     
  • So you think you need . . . A total hip replacement
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  • UPDATES: Bypass surgery causes heart contractions
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    Surgical skill
     
  • So you think you need . . . a gallbladder operation: If you must have the operation
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    Surgical sutures
     
  • Tonometry: Cjd scare
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    Surgical techniques
     
  • ALTERNATIVES TO BLOOD TRANSFUSION
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    Surgical treatment
     
  • DISEASE OF THE MONTH: A heart less cure
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  • NEWS: Gastric patients do worse with surgery
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  • NEWS: One third of patients have to return for more surgery
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  • NEWS: Surgeons are performing ops on dying patients
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  • QUESTIONS FROM READERS: Fibroids on the uterus
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  • Reader's Corner: Lymphoma removal:
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  • THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: It may kill up to one in five, and yet nobody kn
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  • UPDATES: Prostate tests: just say no
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  • UPDATES: Prostate tests: just say no
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  • Vestibulitis and labyrinthitis
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    Surgical treatments
     
  • CROHN'S DISEASE: The hidden triggers
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  • DIABETES: The scandal of human insulin
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  • ENDOMETRIOSIS: The chemical connection
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  • KIDNEY STONES
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  • NEWS: Junior surgeons need supervising, report urges
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  • NEWS: Study shows failure of cleft operations
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  • QUESTION FROM READER: Circumcision
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  • QUESTION FROM READER: Pulmonary hypertension
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  • QUESTION FROM READER: Rsi: what can really help?
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  • QUESTION FROM READER: Undescended testicles: is surgery necessary?
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  • The best alternative treatment for . . . Warts
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  • UPDATES: Cjd can be easily spread by surgery, researchers find
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  • UPDATES: Early operation for 'glue ear' offers no benefits
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