WNDU - Maureen's Medical Moment

New skin analysis goes below the surface
Last Updated: 6:37 PM 02/08/12 - Wrinkles, brown spots, acne, and sun damage are all kinds of skin issues to worry about, but what if you could catch these conditions before they surface?
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Everyday foods mixed with medication can lead to big health problems
Last Updated: 7:34 PM 02/07/12 - Did you know mixing cheese or processed meats and anti-depressants could spike your blood pressure? Or that licorice and blood pressure meds could lead to paralysis?
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Newborns addicted to pain killers
Last Updated: 6:57 PM 02/06/12 - Prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest growing drug problem. More than seven million people abuse them and death rates have tripled from their abuse in the last decade.
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New techniques can help athletes play pain free
Last Updated: 6:45 PM 02/03/12 - Everyday, thousands of people are benched due to an injury, but you do not have to play through the pain anymore because surgery can be a real game changer.
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Sleeping aids both helpful and harmful for patients
Last Updated: 6:54 PM 02/02/12 - Physically exhausted but mentally wide awake, it's what insomniacs experience nightly.
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Abbie's Angels: Hearts of Gold
Last Updated: 2:36 PM 02/03/12 - Abigail (Abbie) Zook lost her young life to leukemia but her classmates and family are walking in her honor.
Engineering athletes: The making of a multi-million dollar player
Last Updated: 7:03 PM 02/01/12 - Better mechanics, sharper science, and breakthrough technology is fast-tracking players towards their dreams.
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Baby Ella - Battling SMA and Living the Life of a Princess
Last Updated: 10:17 PM 01/31/12 - Baby Ella Hunt is fighting a fatal illness but her parents want her to experience as many things little girls enjoy while she can.
New technology making skin cells like stem cells
Last Updated: 6:47 PM 01/31/12 - Stem cells, they could hold the key to the treatment and cure of more than 70 major diseases and conditions.
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Computer software helps repair broken bones
Last Updated: 7:12 PM 01/30/12 - A broken pelvis is a painful injury that is often difficult to repair. Getting to the bones can be tricky because many organs, nerves, and blood vessels lie within the pelvis. Now, surgeons are using new technology to fix the problem.
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New heart attack warning system can help save lives
Last Updated: 3:47 PM 01/30/12 - Researchers have developed a new early warning system that could save you from one of the leading killers of men and women.
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More doctors using off-label drugs to treat patients
Last Updated: 7:14 PM 01/26/12 - It's called off-label drug use, when drugs meant for a specific condition are prescribed to treat another ailment.
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Replacing knees with 3-D
Last Updated: 7:22 PM 01/25/12 - Every year knee replacements can put half a million Americans out of commission for a month or more. Now, without cutting any muscles, a new option is cutting recovery time.
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New technology to better diagnose colorectal cancer
Last Updated: 7:17 PM 01/24/12 - In the next 12 months, 50,000 people will die from colorectal cancer. The worst part is that most of these deaths could have been prevented if the cancer was detected sooner.
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Breast reconstruction offers more choices for breast cancer patients
Last Updated: 6:38 PM 01/23/12 - 80,000 American women choose to get a mastectomy each year, but there are some reconstruction options you may not know exist.
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New surgery helps patients live a more comfortable life with Gerd
Last Updated: 6:37 PM 01/20/12 - From babies to grown-ups, it's a digestive problem that can hit anyone.
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New test is giving hope to doctors for early treatment of RA
Last Updated: 6:44 PM 01/19/12 - Rheumatoid arthritis causes more than a million people to cringe in pain every day. 75 percent of those people are women.
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Helping Heroes: brain scans for PTSD
Last Updated: 7:04 PM 01/18/12 - Most US troops have cleared out of Iraq. As soldiers head stateside, a lot have trouble leaving the battlefield behind.
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Home Infusions cut hospital stay and bills
Last Updated: 7:05 PM 01/18/12 - Elkhart General Home care offers infusions at home rather than hospital. It's a welcome change for people who need IV's to get healthy.
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New treatment to treat the disease angina
Last Updated: 6:39 PM 01/17/12 - It's a pain in the chest 9 million Americans live with every day. Angina is treatable, but most of the time patients have to take medication for the rest of their lives to control it.
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Re-building baby jaws: New surgery for PRS
Last Updated: 6:51 PM 01/16/12 - A mysterious birth defect that often comes with a perfectly normal pregnancy is taking parents by surprise, and the condition can kill up to 30 percent of children who are born with it.
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New treatment may be able to give some cancer patients more time
Last Updated: 6:36 PM 01/13/12 - Four months. It may not seem like a long time to many people, but for those with cancer, it's 120 days they might not have.
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New treatment making life easier for OCD patients
Last Updated: 6:36 PM 01/12/12 - Taking a pill to help get rid of fear? For many people with OCD and other anxiety disorders it sounds too good to be true. Now an antibiotic once used to treat tuberculosis, could change the way doctors treat fear disorders.
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Helping make your loved ones comfortable with a terminal illness
Last Updated: 6:35 PM 01/11/12 - In medicine, there's one ultimate enemy. It's what doctors try their hardest to avoid and what patients will fight until they have no options left.
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Hiding alcoholism: When moms hit rock bottom
Last Updated: 6:59 PM 01/10/12 - An estimated 4 million American women abuse alcohol and many of them have mastered hiding their problem from loved ones.
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Testing your fertility IQ
Last Updated: 6:53 PM 01/09/12 - Infertility means not being able to get pregnant after one year of trying. Or, six months, if a woman is over 35. With one in eight couples experiencing it, there are also a lot of myths out there surrounding infertility.
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Robot performs hysterectomy on South Bend woman
Last Updated: 7:09 PM 01/06/12 - A South Bend woman wanted to make sure the estrogen factor that led to her breast cancer did not spread to her female organs, so her doctor offered her a laparoscopic robotic hysterectomy
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New study shows number of Americans with diabetes is rising
Last Updated: 6:39 PM 01/05/12 - The future's not looking very bright for millions of Americans.
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Protecting yourself from Hepatitis B
Last Updated: 5:35 PM 01/04/12 - Nancye Swanson does her own nails these days. Six months ago, she almost died from something she picked up at a salon.
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Doctors working on ways to better diagnose children with autism
Last Updated: 6:45 PM 01/03/12 - The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened for autism twice before age 2. However, only between 5 and 7 percent of pediatricians perform a formal screening.
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Medical gadgets evolving
Last Updated: 7:58 PM 12/30/11 - Cell phones and computers have evolved by leaps and bounds over the last few decades. Now, it's time for medical devices to do the same.
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New medical procedure makes it easier to remove large tumors
Last Updated: 6:37 PM 12/29/11 - Imagine being told you have a five pound tumor growing inside you. Now imagine getting that news, when you're 13 years-old. That's exactly what happened to one girl.
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New technology making it easier to treat brain aneurysms
Last Updated: 7:01 PM 12/28/11 - They're often discovered when it's too late and one-in-fifteen people could develop them in their lifetime.
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Doctors now able to heal bones that would not heal before
Last Updated: 7:07 PM 12/23/11 - We're born with about 300 to 350 bones in our bodies. By the time we reach adulthood and bones fuse together, we're down to 206. And when an infection strikes, our bones can be in trouble.
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Doctors viewing HIV and AIDS in a new light
Last Updated: 7:13 PM 12/22/11 - Since the first cases of aids were reported back in 1981, more than 600,000 Americans have died. But thanks to advances in treatment, the 1.1 million people living with HIV in the US are living longer then ever before.
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Medical Moment: Double cure for lupus and sickle cell disease
Last Updated: 4:25 PM 12/21/11 - Born with sickle cell, and sick from lupus, a young woman has been given a second chance after a breakthrough procedure cured her of both.
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Medical Moment: Treating kids with traumatic brain injuries
Last Updated: 7:51 PM 12/20/11 - Every year, 475,000 children under age 14, suffer traumatic brain injuries. Now, discoveries are giving kids a better shot at survival.
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Medical Moment: Putting strokes on ice
Last Updated: 10:23 AM 12/20/11 - Doctors are hoping to stop the effects of strokes by putting their patients on ice.
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"Broken" Heart Saves Little Girl
Last Updated: 6:29 PM 12/16/11 - In a seven-year span, 533 kids hoping for heart transplants didn't get one in time. But one little girl's surgery could change the rules—and save more lives.
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New robotic therapy can help stroke patients
Last Updated: 6:38 PM 12/15/11 - For many, a stroke can disable limbs, making even simple tasks next to impossible. Now, a unique trial is helping these patients get back what they have lost.
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New treatment being tested to save the hair of chemotherapy patients
Last Updated: 6:55 PM 12/14/11 - Caused by chemotherapy, it's one of the most obvious signs of cancer treatment. But a cool new therapy is helping some patients lock-in their locks.
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Robotic Knee Surgery and home the same day!
Last Updated: 7:33 PM 12/14/11 - Robotic Knee Surgery is revolutionizing orthopedics.
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New research helping children with autism to interact with others
Last Updated: 7:16 PM 12/13/11 - One in every 110 children is diagnosed with some level of autism. For many parents, this usually means problems with communication and little interest in interacting with others.
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Breathing easier with COPD
Last Updated: 6:58 PM 12/12/11 - Chronic pulmonary disease, or COPD, is the third leading cause of death in the United States and it literally takes a person's breath away.
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Excessive sweating becoming a problem for more people now has a solution
Last Updated: 8:06 PM 12/09/11 - Don't sweat it. We all have about two million sweat glands in our body. A little sweating here and there is normal, and even healthy, but for some people, excessive sweating can be embarrassing. And now a new procedure is stopping the sweat.
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New bariatric surgery technique can help people lose weight less invasively
Last Updated: 6:55 PM 12/07/11 - Bariatric surgery is helping a lot of people take control of their weight and their lives. Now, a new technique that has the potential to be undone is giving patients a less invasive option.
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New solution for women after a mastectomy
Last Updated: 7:16 PM 12/06/11 - Thinning hair, loss of eyelashes, no breasts. It's a reality many breast cancer patients face after chemo and a mastectomy. But with fat-grafting, patients can get their breasts back using their own stem cells.
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New technology to make testing for diabetes easier
Last Updated: 10:56 AM 12/06/11 - Young, old, black and white, diabetes can hit anyone, at any time. Along with the 26 million people who know they have it, millions remain undiagnosed.
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A new type of yoga has people flying high
Last Updated: 7:03 PM 12/02/11 - We all know working out can help boost your mood, but what about one that can make your spirits soar? A new form of yoga has students, literally, flying high.
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Some easy tips to keep the holiday weight off
Last Updated: 6:55 PM 12/01/11 - It's easy to gain weight during the holidays, especially with all the dinners and parties and mindless eating they bring. In fact, half the weight we gain all year comes during the weeks leading up to the New Year.
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Robot performs hysterectomy on South Bend woman
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Home Infusions cut hospital stay and bills
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New treatment may be able to give some cancer patients more time
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A new type of yoga has people flying high
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Doctors working on ways to better diagnose children with autism
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Protecting yourself from Hepatitis B
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