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Written by JuniorDr
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Tuesday, 13 April 2010 06:22 |
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 Bariatric surgery before having a baby significantly reduces the risk of developing serious health problems during pregnancy, according to a study published in the BMJ.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University looked at 585 obese women. Of these 269 had bariatric surgery before delivery and 316 had surgery afterwards.
Compared with women who delivered before surgery, women who delivered after surgery had substantially lower rates (75%) of hypertensive disorders, even after adjusting for factors such as age at delivery, multiple pregnancy, surgical procedure, pre-existing diabetes.
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Written by Michelle Connolly
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Thursday, 14 January 2010 00:00 |
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Founded in 1992 by James Partridge, Changing faces is the UK's charity providing emotional and practical support to people with disfigurements. It was established after James suffered severe burns in a car accident, aged just eighteen. As he told JuniorDr's Michelle Connolly it was a life-changing event that forced him to rethink everyday life and drastically reconsider things he had previously taken for granted.
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Written by Amilia Youkhana
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 00:00 |
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Most people, with the exception of fishermen and extreme animal lovers, will be disgusted by the thought of maggots crawling onto their skin. You can instantaneously conjure up an image of a rotting body plagued with flesh-sucking creepy crawlies. In fact, myiasis is the very term given to the ‘infestation of live humans and animals with dipterous larvae which feed on the host’s dead or living tissue, liquid body substances or ingested food’.
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Written by Sinem Ayman
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Friday, 07 August 2009 00:00 |
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In today's celebrity culture, where looks are becoming more and more central to a person’s confidence, the desire to fit into a set mould is ever increasing. But how far will the beauty and medical industries go to fulfil the demands of such an image conscious public? Sinem Ayman highlights how fears have been raised about the origins of collagen for implants.
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Written by Michelle Connolly
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 19:00 |
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Patients with a BMI over 30 are being refused joint surgery by a Sussex Primary Care Trust. It follows new NICE guidelines stating that patients’ lifestyles can be taken into account in determining if a treatment would be ‘clinically and cost effective’.
Is it ethical? Does it go against what we stand for as doctors? Michelle Connolly and Nicole Chiang asked those involved for their arguments.
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