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Medical Breakthroughs: Unique approach to constant knee pain
Posted 8:49 AM 5/8/2024 by Naomi De Lucia
Knee pain is one of the most common injuries for athletes, it's also one of the trickiest to treat.
In some cases, it can keep athletes off the field for years, and sometimes for life.
Volleyball is Tatum Vedder's passion.
She served, set and spiked her way through high (More)
5/6/2024
Prescription Health: Doctors seeing more kids with kidney stones
Posted 5:50 PM 5/7/2024 by Naomi De Lucia
For a 4-year-old boy, Alex Zellers has been dealing with a very big problem.
“I had stones,” Zellers said
Zellers had kidney stones so large they had to be surgically removed, pediatric urologist Dr. Greg Tasian with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia said.
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Medical Breakthroughs: Ways to treat peanut allergies
Posted 10:23 AM 5/6/2024 by Naomi De Lucia
There are a lot of people who are living with a peanut allergy, and over the past 20 years the rate of people being diagnosed has tripled.
There are several breakthroughs when it comes to helping people with these allergies stay safe, maybe even one day, be able to eat whatever they like (More)
5/3/2024
Heath symposium focuses on stroke prevention and awareness
Posted 4:18 PM 5/4/2024 by Bella Michaels
More than 36 hundred people are hospitalized each year in the Rio Grande Valley because of a stroke.
Local health experts say there's a higher risk of stroke in our area because of the high rate of diabetes and blood pressure.
Over the weekend, Valley Baptist Health system held a (More)
5/2/2024
Medical Breakthroughs: Research team developing medical nanobots
Posted 12:39 PM 5/3/2024 by Naomi De Lucia
Microrobots deployed inside a body were once science fiction and only imagined in the movies. Now they could one day deliver life-saving medications to hard-to-reach places throughout the body.
A team of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a new class of nanobots (More)