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| Suit: Brain surgery allegedly botched DEARBORN, Mich. (UPI) -- A Flat Rock, Mich., woman suffered brain damage after surgery was begun on the wrong side of her head to fix an aneurysm, her family alleges in a lawsuit.
Deborah Blankenship's family is suing neurosurgeon Robert Johnson and radiologist Hasnain Haider-Shah for allegedly botching Blankenship's treatment, The Detroit News reported Tuesday.
The 49-year-old woman died Dec. 8, 2008, 16 months after suffering an aneurysm that caused bleeding on the left side of her brain.
Johnson and Haider-Shah were the attending physicians at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, Mich., when Blankenship was admitted to the emergency room on Aug. 7, 2007, with an acute artery leak in the left side of her brain, said the lawsuit filed Friday in Wayne County Circuit Court.
In surgery to correct the aneurysm, the right side of Blankenship's brain was cut open before the medical team realized the problem was on the left said, the lawsuit alleged.
Johnson, Haider-Shah and Oakwood Hospital officials were not available for comment, the News said.
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| Dentist sued over woman's death NEW YORK (UPI) -- The family of a New York woman who suffered brain damage after having her teeth extracted is suing for wrongful death, court records show.
Felita Dowdy, a 33-year-old Bronx woman who had cerebral palsy, died three months after having her teeth removed by Dr. Bruce Lish at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan.
Dowdy's family, who is suing Lish and the hospital, said the woman's teeth had rotted because of the cerebral palsy and she was admitted to St. Luke's to have them removed last July 23, The New York Daily News reported Tuesday.
Soon after the extraction, she went into respiratory arrest, suffered brain damage and died Oct. 14 of complications from the surgery, an autopsy report said.
The painkiller fentanyl was a "contributing factor" in Dowdy's death, the family's lawyer, Stuart Kitchner, alleges in a lawsuit filed last week in Bronx Supreme Court.
Lish was out of town, but his father, Dr. Jerome Lish, also a dentist, said his son treats many disabled patients and was not at fault. Through a spokesman, hospital officials extended condolences to the Dowdy family, but said they could not comment further because of the litigation.
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| Soft drinks may up pancreatic cancer risk MINNEAPOLIS (UPI) -- Consuming two or more soft drinks weekly increased the risk of pancreatic cancer nearly twofold compared to those who did not drink soda pop, researchers say.
Senior author Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota points out that people who consume carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages tend to have a poor behavioral profile overall, but the effect of these drinks on pancreatic cancer may be unique.
"The high levels of sugar in soft drinks may be increasing the level of insulin in the body, which we think contributes to pancreatic cancer cell growth," Pereira says in a statement.
Pereira and colleagues tracked 60,524 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study. During the 14-year study period, there were 140 pancreatic cancer cases.
The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, found those who consumed two or more soft drinks per week -- averaging five per week -- had an 87 percent increased risk of pancreatic cancer compared with individuals who did not.
However, there was no similar association between fruit juice consumption and pancreatic cancer.
"Singapore is a wealthy country with excellent healthcare. Favorite pastimes are eating and shopping, so the findings should apply to other western countries," Pereira says.
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| Beer may help prevent osteoporosis DAVIS, Calif. (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of California, Davis, said beer may help prevent osteoporosis -- the loss of bone density that can result in fractures.
Lead author Charles Bamforth says the study suggests that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon, a key ingredient for increasing bone mineral density.
Bamforth and colleagues studied commercial beer production to determine the relationship between beer production methods and the resulting silicon content.
Silicon is present in beer in the soluble form of orthosilicic acid, which yields 50 percent bioavailability, making beer a major contributor to silicon intake in the Western diet
The National Institutes of Health say dietary silicon, as soluble orthosilicic acid, may be important for the growth and development of bone and connective tissue, and beer appears to be a major contributor to orthosilicic acid intake.
"Beers containing high levels of malted barley and hops are richest in silicon," Bamforth said in a statement. "Wheat contains less silicon than barley because it is the husk of the barley that is rich in this element. While most of the silicon remains in the husk during brewing, significant quantities of silicon nonetheless are extracted into wort and much of this survives into beer."
The findings are published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
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