 | Watching Hearts at Home
Researchers are looking for ways to cut down on hospital stays by monitoring patients from home.
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 | The Science of Memory
Each of the 100 billion neurons in your brain helps build important information that we call memories. But just how it happens remains a mysterious process.
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 | Saving Teen Girls
Girls earn 57-percent of college degrees and are awarded more than half of all academic scholarships for law and med school admissions.
But, many young girls are feeling pressure to be perfect and that's a bad thing.
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 | Curing Sickle Cell
Sickle cell anemia is the most common inherited blood disorder in the united states, affecting as many as 80-thousand people.
It causes red-blood cells to be mis-shaped and can be deadly.
Now, doctors are using a new intervention that may cure more patients.
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 | Surgery to Stop Sweating
We all break a sweat now and then, but nearly 8 million Americans have a problem that makes them sweat so much it's embarrassing.
Now a new surgical procedure that can help.
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 | Video-Guided Lung Cancer Surgery
Lung cancer is one of the deadliest types of cancer. The five-year survival rate for patients lung cancer is only 16-percent. But for those who catch it early, there's a new, less invasive option to help boost those odds.
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 | Young and Arthritic
Arthritis is no longer your grandparent's disease. Doctors are seeing younger patients come into their offices with stiffness and joint pain. Now, we're finding out why.
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 | Reverse Shoulder Repair
There is a new way to treat people with rotator cuff injuries.
The procedure is relieving pain and restoring movement by changing the way the shoulder works.
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 | Heating Up Asthma
15 million americans have asthma.
This fall, the FDA is looking at a new drug-free treatment for patients with severe, uncontrolled cases.
Now, doctors are using heat to open up patients' airways.
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| Chronic Pelvic Pain
15 percent of women in the U.S. live with chronic pelvic pain. For some, it is so bad they can't move or function normally, yet as many as 70% of sufferers never get a definite diagnosis. Now, there are three new options to help pain patients regain control over their lives.
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 | Bleach Bath for Eczema
Eczema is the most common skin problem in kids impacting more than 17-percent of children in the U.S. Treatment usually involves steroid creams and antibiotics if an infection is present, but now doctors are going back to the basics -- and into the cleaning closet -- to find relief.
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 | Controversial Camp for Spinal Cord Injuries
As many as 250-thousand people are living with the consequences of a spinal cord injury.
It often leads to permanent paralysis of the arms, legs or both.
For many, treatment options are limited, but a controversial therapy program is getting patients out of wheelchairs and standing on their own.
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