FLYING EYE HOSPITAL - The Flying Air Hospital flies specialist surgeons around the world to help save or restore sight to thousands of people. EXERCISE DEVICE - Power Plate is a vibration exercise machine that transfers vibrations through muscles via a stand-on platform. HOME DEFIBRILLATOR - A device designed to help those at risk of heart attack; it enables a friend/family member to revive someone whose heart stops suddenly. STEM CELLS - A researcher from the University of Missouri-Columbia isolated a rare adult stem cell circulating in the blood that is capable of becoming other cells that form nerves and blood vessels. STEM CELL HEART THERAPY - British doctors have taken bone marrow that will be injected into patients' hearts within the critical first five hours after a heart attack. HEART SCANNER - In Australia, a CT scanner determines whether patients have heart problems. INHALER - In England, they are marketing a type of non-syringe inhaler designed as a means of drug delivery. STROKE THERAPY - Australia's Adelaid University has had significant improvement in stroke patients by giving gentle stimulating to patients' brains with electrical current to attempt to get muscles working. EYE DRUG - Lyons' Eye Institute in Perth, Australia, use an anti-cancer drug, Avastin, with some success, injecting a small quantity into macular-degeneration patients to increase their eyesight. LAP BAND - The University of Queensland, Australia, using the bariatric surgery (or lap banding) for obesity patients has emerged as a very effective treatment. VITAMINS - In this report, researchers at the University of Western Australia say taking high doses of anti-oxidants will be harmful to your health instead of helpful. KIDNEY TRANSPLANT - A filter has been developed in Sweden for kidney-transplant patients; this means that antibodies which would normally attack incompatible blood can be removed.
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