Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is recuperating at home from emergency surgery last week to remove a blockage in her small intestine. She's walking around a bit but mostly "taking it easy," said her spokeswoman, Liz Boyd.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is recuperating at home from emergency surgery last week to remove a blockage in her small intestine. She's walking around a bit but mostly "taking it easy," said her spokeswoman, Liz Boyd.
TotalHealthWorld (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Gastric bypass surgery involves stapling the stomach to make it smaller and reattaching the small intestine to bypass a portion responsible for the majority of calorie and nutrient absorption. The procedure is only available to the morbidly obese (more than 100 pounds overweight) who have been obese for more than 5 years and shown a serious [...]
Nature Publishing Group (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Chemokines mediate preferential metastasis of cutaneous melanoma to the small intestine Nature Clinical Practice Oncology 5, 243 (2008). doi:10.1038/ncponc1098
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
No one could have imagined a vendor selling "isaw [small intestine]" barbecue or a jobless street dweller going to school at the prestigious Asian Institute of Management (AIM). But Universal Motors Corporation (UMC) saw the street vendors' entrepreneural potential in 2006 and went into a partnership with the Center for Community Transformation (CCT) Credit Cooperative. Two years after,...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Food scientists have found that certain antioxidants found in red wine and tea may help regulate the blood sugar of people with type 2 diabetes by inhibiting the action of alpha-glucosidase that controls the absorption of glucose from the small intestine, and protect the body from complications such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has died after a pool drain removed a large portion of her small intestine nine months ago, a report said. Abigail Taylor died Thursday evening at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, her family's lawyer, Bob Bennett, said.
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
A 6-year-old Edina, Minn. girl has died after a pool drain removed a large portion of her small intestine nine months ago, a report said.Abigail Taylor died Thursday evening at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, her family's lawyer, Bob Bennett, said.Taylor was in the Minneapolis Golf Club's children's pool June 29, 2007, when her posterior became stuck in a pool drain,...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
By Michael O'Connor, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Mar. 8--A 6-year-old girl who underwent a triple organ transplant in Omaha after 21 feet of her small intestine was sucked out in a pool accident faces another battle.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Given Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIVN) announced that a study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported that capsule endoscopy is a more effective tool to diagnose celiac disease and detect damage throughout the small intestine than upper endoscopy.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
YOQNEAM, ISRAEL (MARKET WIRE) Given Imaging Ltd. (NASDAQ: GIVN) today announced that a study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic reported that capsule endoscopy is a more effective tool to diagnose celiac disease and detect damage throughout the small intestine than upper endoscopy. Researchers also found that celiac affects a highly variable portion of the small intestine...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
A persistent mystery in human medicine is how the lining of the small intestine, through which nutrients are absorbed, also prevents intestinal bacteria and their toxins from entering the bloodstream and causing serious infections. A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has found that a specific intestinal enzyme may be able to block the action of...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
How the lining of the small intestine, through which nutrients are absorbed, also prevents intestinal bacteria from entering the bloodstream has been a mystery. Now researchers have found that an intestinal enzyme may be able to block the action of the bacterial toxin involved in the overwhelming infection known as sepsis. The findings may also explain why patients recovering...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
A study by researchers at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John's Health Center has shown that a receptor protein found on melanoma cells appears to facilitate the disease's spread to the small intestine. The study, published in the Feb.
Truemors (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
Five year old Braden Eberle swallowed a couple of pencil-eraser-size magnets. His mom figured, no big deal, they'll go right through. Nope. These magnets are the newer type made from neodymium and are incredibly strong. The magnets snapped together in the boy's small intestine, pinching off a portion. When Braden complained of pain in his [...]
