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Title: St. Patrick's Day Recipes: Healthy Versions
Category: Expert's Views
Created: 2/11/2005
Last Editorial Review: 3/17/2010

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Created: 3/14/2010 10:10:00 AM
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UroToday.com - Increasing attention is being directed to the use of simulation in training laparoscopic surgery as it is becoming the standard of care for many surgical diseases. The debate continues in the literature as to the necessity of haptic or tactile feedback as an important component of a laparoscopic simulator for teaching these surgical skills. The Simbionix LapMentor II has the capability of providing tactile feedback for its basic skills training. However, this software adds an estimated cost of $30,000 to this simulator without the haptic feedback...

Solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) of the pancreas is relatively rare. There are some similarities between SPN and pancreatic endocrine tumor (PET), especially the non-functioning ones, in clinical and pathological manifestations. Even the results of immunohistochemistry reported in the literature showed that the expression profiles of the two tumors overlapped, which sometimes results in difficulty distinguishing the two entities...

The role of selenium in diabetes has been controversial, with some studies suggesting that it raises diabetes risk and others finding that it is protective. Now, research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism, has shown that, for men, high plasma selenium concentrations are associated with a lower occurrence of dysglycemia. Tasnime Akbaraly, from the University of Montpellier, worked with a team of researchers to follow 1162 healthy French men and women for nine years, monitoring plasma selenium concentrations and incidence of dysglycemia...