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Musical Medicine

Turkish doctors are returning to a more traditional treatment for post-operative recovery: Islamic music therapy. It has been used for more than 1,000 years to treat many types of suffering. Historical anecdote, however, is not sufficient evidence for hospitals worldwide do adopt musical modalities. Many want scientific proof. Professor Bingur Sonmez and Dr Erol Can of Memorial [...]

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Blood Vessel Grafts

Cytograft technology, shown to the left, is being used in Dr. McAllister‘s clinical trial for dialysis patients. Dialysis machines clean the blood in leu of the kidneys. Since the blood must exit the body in order for the machines to access the blood, patients are frequently stuck by needles that harvest the blood. Although blood vessels are able [...]

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Imagine what’s in his colon! jtotheizzoe: Carl Zimmer discovered that his belly button is home

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Imagine what’s in his colon! jtotheizzoe: Carl Zimmer discovered that his belly button is home

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Imagine what’s in his colon! jtotheizzoe: Carl Zimmer discovered that his belly button is home

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