Good news for Obese people Jul 25, 2010
Those buildups, called plaques, reduce blood flow through the artery and can contribute to heart attack, stroke and even gangrene. It is common in individuals with obesity-related problems such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
New Black Panthers, You're Free To Go -- Not So Fast, Arizona Jul 20, 2010
Catastrophe ensued; Levine developed gangrene and had to have her lower arm amputated. Levine sued the health center and clinician for malpractice, and won. (Human Events Online)
Africa: Continent Heading for Diabetes Epidemic Jul 7, 2010
"Diabetes patients can experience slow healing, and going to a healer for scarifications can mean they develop gangrene and need amputations," says Assah. In 2010, an estimated six per cent of deaths in Africa will be caused by diabetes, a three-fold increase in the last 10 years. (allAfrica.com)
Former guv complains about 'demigod' Obama ... Jul 1, 2010
and we continue to peel away the political skin to reveal the gangrene beneath it. anytime you let people 'run for office' out of their choice - you have power-grabbers and crazy ones jumping around and waving their hands, proclaiming their 'honesty' and intent to 'work FOR the people. (The Drudge Report)
Mumbai man eyes Guinness for most ailments Jun 27, 2010
Considering that he suffers from congestive heart failure (last year, doctors drained out five litres of liquid from his lungs) and two of his ribs were removed after they got gangrene, Solanki's heart was indeed a difficult one to operate, cardiac surgeon Dr Jayesh Dhareshwar, who was among the 10-member team treating Solanki, said ... Last year, gangrene developed on two of his rib bones, needing them to be removed. (India Times, India)
Homeopathy to Help Treat Gangrene Jun 24, 2010
Gangrene is a medical condition that occurs when there is death of tissue in the body. Gangrene leads to discoloration of the skin, which can often turn blue or black, discharge with a foul odor and loss of feeling in the affected area ... Although homeopathy can not treat gangrene it can help to improve the condition and symptoms. (Suite101.com)
Click to read: Man Tries To Amputate His Own Arm Jun 15, 2010
Jonathan Metz Tried to Saw It Off to Keep from Dying of Gangrene; He Was Stuck in His Furnace, which He Was Attempting to Fix ... She said, "I think he -- he just wanted to live so badly that his first thought was to -- if he could get the arm off and he could then get free and somehow get the arm reattached. That was his first motivation. Then when he knew the arm was gone because he could smell the gangrene, his own motivation was to live and get free.". (CBS News -- Early Show)
Tobacco Addiction Among Women Jun 9, 2010
Its deposits narrow the arteries, causing gangrene, leading to amputation for some victims. Researches since 1939 have indicated the bad effects of smoking in advanced countries. (allAfrica.com)
Dronka recalls military career spanning three decades May 27, 2010
If they did not take care of their feet and try to keep them dry they could develop jungle rot, sores would develop and possibly gangrene might have set in, which in some cases would require amputation, Dronka explained. Sometimes because of the extreme heat, humidity, and wet conditions, cotton and leather items would literally rot right off of you. (Sealy News, TX)
1Woman Falls into Coma, Loses Breast After Spider Bite» May 26, 2010
her breast had become gangrene, and the infection sent her into a coma for 11 days. When she woke up, doctors told her they had to surgically remove the muscle and breast tissue from her left side. (Fox News)
Paulding woman loses breast to spider bite May 24, 2010
By the time Franklin got to the emergency room, gangrene had set in and the breast had to be removed. She found out that she had lost her breast when she woke up from an 11-day coma at Wellstar Windy Hill Hospital. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Finding the Soft Spot: Researcher Develops Tool to Measure Tissue Damage in the Bedridden and Paralyzed May 22, 2010
The affected body areas are prone to conditions like gangrene and sepsis if not caught and treated early enough -- which lead to death in some who are in the advanced stages of diabetes. Prof. (Science Daily)
Signs, prevention, cure of Diabetes May 15, 2010
Long standing, uncontrolled diabetes can affect almost every part of the body and cause damage to the nerves, blood vessels, heart, eyes, kidneys and can also lead to gangrene in some cases. Prevention Prevention of diabetes mainly requires lifestyle modification. (India Times, India)
Focus on Seniors: Don't stress, seek treatment for skin problem May 9, 2010
It is not dangerous and does not mean gangrene is imminent. Psoriasis can be mildly irritating or absolutely incapacitating, especially if the patient also has psoriatic arthritis. (Florida Today)
Give us back the German empire May 6, 2010
Social unrest might grow like gangrene from the Greek tip, unless we have a miracle. Christian Europe believes in miracles, and so most people will want to pray for one, and God might be benign enough to grant it. (Asia Times Online)
8 Deadly Diseases and their Symptom... Apr 18, 2010
Without treatment, hands and feet will lose feeling and gangrene, blindness and collapse of the nose may occur. Leprosy can be treated with antibiotics although it will take about two years for a complete cure to be effected. (Suite101.com)
Exploding Breast Implants Recalled Apr 13, 2010
That can cause a severe infection such as gangrene or toxic shock. Coomer said a breast implant capsule is two layers, so in order for an implant to leak, both layers would have to be punctured. (Fox News)
Severe Arterial Disease Found in Younger Adults Apr 13, 2010
19 patients had Buerger's disease, a rare disease of the arteries and veins of the arms and legs that can lead to infection, gangrene and amputation. The condition is strongly linked to smoking and the use of snuff and chewing tobacco. (MEDLINEplus)
18 born blind in arsenic hit Bihar district Mar 31, 2010
Diseases normally being witnessed in these districts include blindness, cancer of intestine, lever, kidneys and bladder, gangrene, bone deformity and skin problems. My saved articles. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Stenting May Save Legs Mar 18, 2010
They are at risk of gangrene and amputation ... But some patients with severe disease and those with gangrene still lost a limb, said Lookstein, who was scheduled to present the finding Monday at the Society of Interventional Radiology's annual meeting in Tampa, Fla. (MEDLINEplus)
No where near square one Mar 17, 2010
Please, Your Omniscience, it is the client who sues, not the lawyer; and don't tell me that you wouldn't sue if somebody amputated your good leg instead of the one with gangrene. And who is this anonymous "plaintiff" whose lawyers make those big financial contributions to the Democratic Party, whose current administration will not allow Mr. Sowell's cures to be adopted and which "we are left to believe" created all these problems in the first place. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Local Coast Guard cutter crew recounts battle to save lives amid Haiti's rubble Mar 5, 2010
"The tales tumbled out of the crew members' mouths, stories of a stoic, gentle, grateful people; of gangrene and fly larvae; of a little boy with seizures who they saw sitting on his mother's lap one morning and who was still sitting on her lap, having not yet received medical treatment, that night; of a woman saved from committing suicide after her 7-year-old son died; of the baby born on Tahoma's deck after the medical officer was sure that it had died while in the womb; of so many, many... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Dems Blame Anthem Exec Pay for Rate Hikes Feb 25, 2010
Like a bad case of gangrene, or metastases, the healthcare crisis is only going to get worse. by pstibbons February 24, 2010 2:56 PM EST. (CBS News -- Health)
Navy to review Murtha's care Feb 19, 2010
Factors that increase the risk of death include gangrene, a burst gallbladder or severe diseases. The laparoscopic surgery is a safe, minimally invasive procedure, said Dr. L.D. Britt, president-elect of the American College of Surgeons and professor at Eastern Virginia Medical School. (CNN -- Health)
Cold challenge Feb 13, 2010
Even small drops in temperature could put Anne at risk of losing her digits through gangrene - and this will be a sustained period of exposure ... I worry about her because if Anne gets too cold her fingers might totally shut down and she could end up with gangrene ... " Taking careRobert Moots, consultant rheumatologist at University Hospital, in Aintree, Liverpool, said that Anne would need to take great care to protect herself. "I think it is a very brave and scary thing for Anne to be... (BBC News -- Health)
The long-term aftershocks of care Feb 9, 2010
Gangrene - tissue death and decay caused by lack of blood flow - had sometimes set in. Gangrene and wound infections can kill people. (Boston Globe)
Newt's Fictionalized History Feb 5, 2010
First, eliminate wasteful spending on the Continental Army s field hospital bureaucracy and replace it with a personalized, individual-responsibility-based system that encourages the avoidance of typhus, gangrene, and bullet-wounds through a comprehensive wellness program further incentivized by tax credits and flogging. Second, it is imperative that we conquer the Nubian duchy of Timbuktu (partnering with the Prussian Empire and the Kingdom of Fiji) and fast-track it to become the 14th colony. (The American Conservative)
Photographer chronicles tragedy, loss in Haiti Feb 4, 2010
Nothing prepares you for the smell of gangrene, Flurie said. Hundreds of people were still on cardboard mats, he said, and he spent three long days meeting children with crushed legs and scarred bodies and seeing adults being carried into the hospital on doors. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Volcker - time for real change Jan 28, 2010
The economy is still in danger of dying from financial gangrene. 3. (Asia Times Online)
Haiti not ready for amputees Jan 28, 2010
The Comfort's doctors count as a miracle a young man badly infected with gangrene they thought surely would die. Taking off his arm and leg saved his life. (AlertNet)
Haitians' medical needs shift away from trauma Jan 28, 2010
Haiti victims' medical needs shift away from trauma - USATODAY.com. Earthquake in Haiti USA TODAY coverage. (USA Today)
Haiti doctors face issues Jan 27, 2010
Haiti's 'floating hospital': Tough questions on USNS Comfort - USATODAY.com. Haiti's 'floating hospital': Tough questions on USNS Comfort. (USA Today)
Crush injuries: Deceptively dangerous Jan 26, 2010
"But we also know now that's not always the right answer." By trying to preserve the limb, doctors run the risk of infection, gangrene and rhabdomyolysis. "Removing a limb could mean saving a life," he said. (CNN -- Health)
Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch... Jan 24, 2010
One US doctor, who asked not to be named, snorted: "I didn't know touching could heal gangrene.". When asked what the Scientologists are doing here, another doctor said: "I don't know.". (The Drudge Report)
Haiti: mass relocation Jan 22, 2010
Medics treated the countless injured in makeshift hospitals as gangrene began to set in, and fresh looting broke out in devastated Port-au-Prince even as some signs of normal life returned. "It is difficult to work as before, but we're on course to regain control," President Rene Preval told reporters, seeking to counter charges that the government has been largely absent since the January 12 disaster. (iAfrica.com)
Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians? Jan 22, 2010
Forget hunger, dehydration, gangrene, septicemiathe real concern was "the security situation," the possibility of chaos, violence, looting. Never mind that the overwhelming majority of on-the-ground accounts from people who did not have to answer to editors described Haitians taking care of one another, digging through rubble with their bare hands, caring for injured loved onesand strangersin the absence of outside help. (Slate)
Valley doctor in Haiti Jan 21, 2010
Frustrating also, as I am losing patients right and left to gangrene. The smell in town is impressive and is just going to get worse. (AZCentral -- News)
MSF accuses U.S. over Haiti delays Jan 21, 2010
"And these three days have created a massive problem with infection, with gangrene, with amputations that are needed now, while we could have really spared this to those people.". The aid group, set up in 1971 by a group of journalists and doctors including France's current foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has complained that 5 aeroplanes carrying 85 tonnes of drugs and surgical supplies have been turned away from Port-au-Prince since Sunday night. (AlertNet)
Strong aftershock rattles Haiti Jan 21, 2010
So far, feared infectious diseases have not shown up, although many injured faced the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene, and hospitals are overwhelmed. The UN says "localised looting" is occurring, but overall security is good. (BBC News -- Americas)
The Super Food Jan 21, 2010
The famed Dr. Louis Pasteur, who developed the method of pasteurisation we still use to this day for milk, also discovered garlic's good antibacterial activity resulting in its use against gangrene in both World Wars. Garlic enhances many different dishes, from Italian pastas and pizzas, to assisting in flavouring meat with a most delicious and succulent result. (iAfrica.com)
Shattered bodies at Peace Hospital Jan 21, 2010
"Now, so many days after the earthquake, those rescued are usually already suffering from gangrene," says Jorge Fran Martinez, a Cuban anesthesiologist. He and a team of doctors are operating on the right leg of a young woman. (CNN -- World)
Story:Crushed and gashed, dozens in Haiti now lose limbs Jan 20, 2010
By the time he was moved to a U.N. hospital Tuesday morning, gangrene was spreading up his broken left leg ... PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- For two days, Ticia Vital refused doctors' pleas to allow them to amputate her festering left leg, even as the gangrene spread and the alternative became death ... For two days, Vital refused doctors' pleas to allow them to amputate her leg, even as the gangrene spread and the alternative became death. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Haiti nightmare for Jacksonville doctors Jan 20, 2010
Fipp said many patients are arriving with gangrene and require amputation. She expects the people of Haiti to be in great need of prosthetic limbs and crutches. (Jacksonville Business Journal, FL)
Infection risk to 3 million... Jan 20, 2010
With long waits for treatment, thousands living in close quarters at makeshift camps and severely disrupted water supplies, there is an immediate threat of tetanus and gangrene to those who are injured as well as a risk from measles, meningitis and other infections ... "She had to accept it after the doctors told her the gangrene was spreading and that she would die," Chantal said. (The Drudge Report)
Haitians Die At Hospital For Lack Of Supplies Jan 20, 2010
By the time he was moved to a U.N. hospital Tuesday morning, gangrene was spreading up his broken left leg. His body was beginning to collapse with an infection that caused severe dehydration. (CBS News -- World)
Doctors sacrifice limbs Jan 20, 2010
Photo 1 of 1 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- For two days, Ticia Vital refused doctors' pleas to allow them to amputate her festering left leg, even as the gangrene spread and the alternative became death ... "But I talked her into it, and she had to accept it after the doctors told her the gangrene was spreading and that she would die.". (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
* Doctors fear spread of disease in devastated Haiti Jan 20, 2010
Medical teams pouring in to set up mobile hospitals said they were already overwhelmed by the casualties and warned of the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene as well as the spread of measles, meningitis and other infections. No one has begun to estimate the number of injuries from the magnitude 7 earthquake, which destroyed much of the capital Port-au-Prince on Jan. 12. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Babies pulled from the Haitian rubble Jan 19, 2010
" However one of the infant's legs was crushed and gangrene had set in. "We don't know if we can save it," Assa said. The Israeli field hospital has treated some 250 victims, the vast majority of the them pulled found in the collapsed ruins of the city. Eighty have been children, mostly dazed orphans struggling to grasp what has happened. Even the adults found in the utter destruction that littered the capital found the reality hard to bear. Perhaps it is better to be young, not to understand... (Yahoo! Asia News)
For thousands in Haiti, healing pivots on an amputation Jan 19, 2010
I lost everything and I can not work," she said between sobs. The scene is repeated in badly damaged hospitals and makeshift medical centres. In the city slum Carrefour, dozens of wounded and dying have lain for hours, even days, under a sweltering sun waiting to be treated. Inside a tent, amputations are performed one lot after another. "There is gangrene everywhere and you amputate on the go," said Hans Van Dillen, for years the head of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) mission here that is now... (Channelnewsasia.com)
Desperation Builds at Haiti Clinics Jan 19, 2010
Perhaps the biggest issue faced by these patients are infection and gangrene in crushed limbs. Also Monday, a local community hospital with three operating rooms re-opened and just three miles from the large and sophisticated field hospital set up by the Israeli military continues to treat patients and save lives. (CBS News -- 60 minutes II)
For doctors in Haiti, worst is yet to come Jan 19, 2010
Tetanus gangrene are immediate threats, as is the spread of measles, germs causing meningitis and other infections with crowding. Corpses were being burned or dumped in mass graves but Andrus said this was unnecessary and could damage the mental state of survivors, Andrus told a news conference. (AlertNet)
Haiti quake: Aid workers' diaries Jan 18, 2010
In terms of injuries, we're seeing lots of people with gangrene too - it's not a pretty sight. It's the dry season now and there's no supply of drinking water. (BBC News)
HAITI QUAKE: World Vision Situation Update Jan 17, 2010
Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. (AlertNet)
Injured overwhelm Haiti hospital Jan 17, 2010
Gangrene crept slowly up his left leg, and his toes were already black. Doctors said they would have to amputate to his knee, if not higher. (Florida Today)
Makeshift Medicine amid Haiti "War Zone" Jan 15, 2010
Sometimes, by the time victims arrive, he has to amputate because of gangrene. "Access is very difficult," he said. (CBS News)
