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DNA Repair Cream
Sunscreen helps protect skin against the sun's rays, but once damage is done, normal cells can turn cancerous. Researchers hope a DNA repair cream will reduce the incidence of skin cancer.
Electric Bandage
Pressure sores are a danger to many patients. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are hoping technology will lower costs and raise quality of life for these patients.
Endoscopic Ultrasound
Technology helps diagnosing cancer early, saving many lives every year. As technology improves, physicians are able to treat patients with other problems, without operating.
Fight Disease from Space
When astronauts blast into space their immune systems undergo change that could be problematic for fighting infection. Here's how researchers are finding answers with space age technology.
Gastric Bypass
When other weight-loss options fail, laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery may help those fighting the battle with morbid obesity.
Heating Up Tumors
A cancer diagnosis often means major surgery for patients, but new and improved technology offers a less invasive treatment option.
Implantable Heart Monitor
Heart failure effects more than five million people. There is no cure, but thanks to new computer aided technology the lives of these patients looks much better.
Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
New technology makes giving the gift of life easier on the donor.
Metal Hip
Metal to metal hip prosthesis is found to be more durable than the traditional metal to plastic for hip replacement surgery.
Minimally Invasive Thyroid Surgery
Thyroid disease can be treated with medicines, but for some, surgery is necessary. Here's how a new minimally invasive surgical procedure is leaving less scarring and getting patients back to their regular routine quicker.
Nasal Vaccine to Prevent Meningitis
Bacterial meningitis is a serious and sometimes deadly disease. The bacteria that causes meningitis accounts for millions of visits to the doctor's office each year.
Saving SIght
A young man who was blinded in one eye was told he would never see again. Here's how improved technology and persistence changed the course of fate for one family.
Shingles Vaccine
Shingles, caused by the chicken pox virus, remains dormant becoming active later in life, causing blisters and severe pain. UAB is testing a vaccine for the elderly.
Stress And Dieting
Each year, Americans spend more than $40 billion on diet programs and products. New research looks at why dieters rebound and how even one tempting food can trigger an eating disorder.
Tandem Heart
Lifesaving surgeries are performed everyday to repair the hearts of many Americans who have had a heart attack or have heart disease. Here's how improved technology is giving doctors a new way to mend damaged hearts.
Targeting Tumors
Intensity Modulated Radiation Treatment is the latest cancer-fighting tool. IMRT accurately targets just the tumor with radiation while sparing the healthy cells around it.
Temporomandibular Joint Implants
TMJ disorders affect more than 50 percent of the population. It can cause pain and can even affect speech and chewing. For some patients, joint replacement is the only cure.
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