| A nip and tuck with a great view
Plastic surgery in South Africa - including the "medical tourism" business catering to those who want a nip and tuck or nose job during their holiday - is on the increase. Plastic surgery is a multibillion-dollar industry that has gained much exposure through TV reality shows like Extreme Makeover and popular series like Nip/Tuck. There are more than 100 plastic surgeons in South Africa. Now not only are more and more South Africans going under the scalpel, say plastic surgeons, but an increasing number of "medical tourists" are visiting our shores to have work done. The most popular destinations are Cape Town and Johannesburg. .
Beebe expansion on track for completion
Contractors for Beebe Medical Center continue to work toward a spring 2008 completion of a $35 million expansion that will double the Emergency Department beds and add 62 medical-surgical and intensive care beds.
Riddled with miles of electronic cables, heating and air-conditioning ducts, and piping for medical gases and water, the new facility represents the latest thinking for dealing with a wide array of emergency and inpatient medical needs for the 21st century.
Specialized approaches to differing needs are most evident in the emergency room expansion:
• A decontamination room provides shower facilities between an outside entrance and an inner entrance to emergency facilities.
• Seven cardiac resuscitation rooms large enough to accommodate the teams of people needed to deal with such emergencies reflect the aging demographic of Delaware’s Cape Region especially since 1988 when the last emergency room improvements were made.
Mother's urn misplaced but not forgotten
A local woman was overwhelmed when she learned of an urn with cremated human remains turning up in the back seat of a broken-down Buick at a North Charleston auto-repair business. After all, the remains were her mother's. "She is going to be resting because I'm going to scatter the ashes," Fatima Dickerson said. The Charleston County Coroner's Office was still deciding Wednesday which family member would receive the remains, Deputy Coroner Bobbi Jo O'Neal said. The Coroner's Office retrieved the urn Tuesday morning and initially contacted the deceased woman's sister in another state about claiming it. The urn came from a car at the Transmission Wholesalers lot near Rivers Avenue and Remount Road. The shop had towed the car several months earlier. The car's original owner sold it to the transmission business and discovered a gold and black vase while sorting through belongings left inside.
Patients find success with lap band surgery
(MEMPHIS-11/7/07)-There is no question we're losing the battle of the bulge. The CDC say two thirds of American adults are now overweight. And some looking for their inner thinness are going to the extreme and choosing surgery to shed the pounds.
The laparoscopic gastric band or lap band surgery is the less expensive, less invasive alternative to the gastric bypass surgery. And patients we talked to who opted for the lap band surgery say it wasn't just about shedding the pounds, but prolonging their lives.
Sandra Carmichiel, Lisa Richardson and Donna Schmitz are all eating better these days.
And now the sisters also have a secret weapon that is helping them battle the bulge.
Back in August all three underwent the lap band surgery at Baptist Memorial Hospital.
REMINDER: ORLive Presents: Minimally Invasive Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass -- the Gold Standard of Weight-Loss Surgery
Weight-loss surgery is the first surgery PinnacleHealth is scheduled to host on the Internet over the next year. On Wednesday, November 7 at 6 pm, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, medical director of bariatric surgery at PinnacleHealth, will perform the gold standard of weight-loss surgery, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, at the PinnacleHealth Community Campus, on www.OR-Live.com. Since 1998, Luciano DiMarco, DO, FACOS, and his partners, Doctors Scot A. Currie and Matthew Davidson, have performed this surgery laparoscopically, reducing chance of infection, shortening hospital stay and improving recovery time. .
New Risk Factor For Heart Disease Identified In Very Young Children, According To Study At American Heart Association ...
The results from the newest study in a continuum of research on childhood obesity as a risk factor for heart disease in later life provide another reason for pediatricians to begin measuring and monitoring body mass index (BMI) in children as young as 3 or 4 years old.
The study, presented today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, found that the new risk factor -- called BMI rebound age -- indicates that the earlier in young childhood that kids reach their lowest BMI and then begin to gain body mass, the greater the chance of having adverse changes in known cardiovascular risk factors, which can show up as early as age 7.
The study was conducted by Thomas R. Kimball, M.D., a cardiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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