| Mixing plant extracts for treatments could be harmful
London, Oct 5 - Scientists in Britain have warned that treatment of individual health problems by mixing different combination of plant extracts could cause more harm then good to the patient. Herb practitioners in different parts of the world, including India, mix different combinations of plant extracts to treat ailments, including asthma and arthritis. The researchers looked at 1,300 published articles on the subject and analysed the only three found to be randomised clinical trials. These three trials investigated the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (a knee joint disease), irritable bowel syndrome (a most common gastrointestinal disorder) and the relief of side effects caused by drug treatment for cancer, reported the online edition of Daily Mail. The researchers from Peninsula Medical School, Exeter, found that in two of the studies, there was no statistical difference in the results from tailored herbal medicine and a placebo, or dummy treatment.
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Minimally-Invasive Hip Replacements
NORMAL, ILL. - A patient from Normal, Ill. who recently underwent total hip replacement was able to go home the same day because the surgery was performed in a new, minimally invasive way. The orthopedic surgeon who performed the procedure, Dr. Edward Kolb, believes the patient was the first in Central Illinois to have the procedure performed and to go home on the same day. "It's pretty cool," Kolb said as he stood in the operating room suite at OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, Bloomington, Ill., where he performed the surgery Feb. 20. "This is an exciting new procedure that gives us a way for patients to recover more quickly." The patient is a longtime dancer and dance instructor who is known as "Miss Janet" to thousands of students, former students and their families.
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