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Case report: plant-based haemostatic stops lung bleeding in two newborns
Ankaferd, given through the breathing tube, halted haemorrhage after standard steps had failed.
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Case report: when colon cancer hides inside the bile ducts
Spread confined to the bile ducts in an 82-year-old man looked like a different cancer.
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Doripenem holds its own against rival antibiotics for hospital pneumonia
Pooling five studies, a meta-analysis finds similar survival and cure rates.
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Iron store marker tracks insulin resistance in metabolic syndrome
Ferritin rose in step with insulin resistance in patients, but not in healthy volunteers.
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Sleep apnoea takes a toll on the legs and lungs, not just on sleep
Patients walked less, moved less and tired faster than healthy peers in a small comparison.
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Mapping normal blood flow to the fetus, week by week
Doppler scans of 163 healthy pregnancies chart how vessel indices change from mid- to late pregnancy.
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A routine blood test hints at oxidative stress in men with no sperm
Oxidant and antioxidant markers differed sharply across infertile men grouped by semen results.
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Tilt a knee implant 3 degrees and the plastic insert takes the strain
A computer simulation shows how small alignment changes move stress inside a knee replacement.
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Disc slipped again soon after surgery? Reoperation eases pain faster
Repeat surgery and conservative care ended up level at six months after an early lumbar recurrence.
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COVID-19 emptied operating rooms, except for caesareans and appendectomies
One Turkish hospital's records show how the first pandemic year reshaped surgery.
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A hybrid algorithm learns to tell five kinds of white blood cell apart
Shape features, a neural network and a vulture-inspired search combine to read blood smears.
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Heart tumours in children: rare, mostly benign, and increasingly spotted
A review pulls together what doctors know about tumours that begin in a child's heart.