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Feature articles on surgical procedures:

Had weight loss surgery? Take your vitamins to prevent dangerous nutritional deficiencies

4/19/2007 - A rare but serious complication arising from weight loss surgery can be easily prevented by taking vitamin supplements after the operation, according to a study published in the journal "Neurology." The brain condition, known as a Wernicke encephalopathy,...

Most drug-coated stent use never approved by the FDA

2/21/2007 - (NaturalNews) A recent report has shown that the majority of drug-coated stents installed in patients by doctors are being used in “off-label” cases -- that is, cases not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The report was released Monday...

Ruptured disk surgery as effective as doing nothing, study finds

11/23/2006 - (NaturalNews) Patients suffering from ruptured disks in their lower backs tend to recover regardless of whether or not they opt to undergo back surgery, according to a new study appearing in today's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...

Angioplasty overkill? Financial incentives may be driving surgeons to massively over-treat heart patients

8/21/2006 - (NaturalNews) Recent statistics show that a medical clinic in Elyria, Ohio prescribes profitable angioplasties for heart patients nearly four times as often as the rest of the country, which has raised questions among experts as to why the Elyria cardiologists...

The dark history of modern medicine: U.S. surgeons routinely operated on babies without anesthesia

8/10/2006 - A warning to readers: this is a gruesome story. Do not read this if you are squeamish. It's a hard-to-believe (but true) account of the horrors of conventional medicine and its barbaric surgical procedures, many of which are still practiced today. We...

Unnecessary surgery exposed! Why 60% of all surgeries are medically unjustified and how surgeons exploit patients to generate profits

10/7/2005 - Every year millions of Americans go under the knife, but many of them are enduring great pain and shelling out thousands of dollars for surgeries they don't really need. In fact, the only people who seem to really benefit from these unnecessary medical...

One-fifth of women would consider double mastectomy as breast cancer prevention strategy

8/21/2005 - You're not going to believe this one: A recent poll of 1500 women in Britain and five other countries found that 22 percent of them would consider having both breasts removed if they were at high risk for breast cancer. We're not talking about the removal...

The madness of bariatric surgery and other "modern" surgical procedures

7/26/2005 - It has now been widely reported that bariatric surgery (an aggressive form of weight loss surgery where patients' digestive organs are lobotomized) has an unintended side effect: low blood sugar. According to reports in USA Today, the New York Times,...

What conventional medicine won't dare tell you about gall bladder removal surgery

5/22/2005 - A reader asks, "After having gall bladder surgery three weeks ago, I am having a lot of discomfort, bloating, nausea, and in general, not feeling well. My doctor says it will pass, but it seems to be getting worse. I am a 65-year-old woman. Do you have...

Ten Lies About Health Your Doctor Taught You

5/5/2005 - Lie #1: Prescription drugs will make you healthier. Truth #1: Prescription drugs only mask symptoms. They do nothing to correct the underlying biochemical causes of disease. Simultaneously, most prescription drugs cause nutritional deficiencies which...

Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system

4/21/2005 - Defenders of organized medicine are fond of saying that the United States has the best healthcare in the world, but I challenge that. I don't think we have the best healthcare in the world, I think we have the most expensive healthcare in the world....

Patients should demand full lifetime refunds on Vioxx, COX-2 inhibitors and other drugs

1/16/2005 - Let's take a closer look at honesty in medicine. Over the last few months, the FDA and state legal authorities have been going after a company selling various supplements and herbal formulas that promised to enhance breast size. According to the news...

Surgeon leaves rolled-up towel inside chest cavity of patient

8/19/2004 - Relatives of an American woman are suing a clinic where a surgery was performed that left a rolled-up towel inside the chest of a woman following surgery for emphysema. The towel had been left in her chest for years, and the woman had often complained...

Gastric bypass surgery causes pregnant mother to lose her fetus

8/19/2004 - A pregnant woman has died of complications related to gastric bypass surgery. Her death occurred 18 months after she underwent the surgical procedure, and was apparently due to a tear in her small intestine that resulted from the gastric bypass surgical...

Surgical robots promise to make surgery less painful; and yet are still medically unnecessary most of the time

8/7/2004 - Surgeons in Australia are excited over new surgical robots they are using to perform surgical operations on patients. These new robots allow surgeons to perform operations with improved precision in a way that reduces post-operative complications and...

Gastric bypass surgery should be a last resort, not a choice of convenience

7/30/2004 - An article in USA Today talks about Raechel Arnold -- a teenage girl who has undergone gastric bypass surgery and managed to lose a significant amount of weight, dropping from 323 lbs to 165 lbs. The article reads like a brochure for gastric bypass surgery,...

Gastric bypass sugery leaves patient at critical 87 pounds, dying from malnutrition

7/21/2004 - Be careful what you ask for. Loren Root was obese, weighing in at 330 pounds, and wanted to lose weight. But after undergoing expensive gastric bypass surgery, Loren found herself unable to eat enough to maintain any weight at all, and she quickly slipped...

Appetite stimulating hormone decreases following gastric bypass surgery

7/13/2004 - Research is showing that people who under gastric bypass surgery -- a barbaric procedure if there ever was one -- experience a decrease in the appetite stimulating hormone ghrelin. This, according to the researchers, helps patients lose weight and also...

Landmark study shows common surgical procedures to be worthless; surgeons perform countless unproven surgeries each year

5/30/2004 12:07:28 AM - It's official: modern medical procedures like surgery are completely worthless for a startling number of diseases and conditions, and doctors exaggerate the benefits of whatever procedure they're hawking. This is the truth about modern medicine...

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