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After three tours in Afghanistan as a trauma surgeon for the Canadian Navy, Dr. Dennis Filips was inspired — by a simple hair clip — to design a medical clamp that can stop traumatic wound bleeding in a matter of seconds.

Now the device, due to hit the market in multiple countries later this year, has earned Filips the top innovator award at last week’s Life Science and Health Care Ventures Summit in New York.

The ITClamp will “level the playing field for everybody,” Filips recently told the Edmonton Journal.

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Youth baseball season will soon begin, and parents and coaches need to know how to prevent player injuries, a medical expert says.

Shoulder and elbow injuries are the most common and are typically due to overuse, said Dr. Tony Wanich, an attending surgeon in the orthopedic surgery department at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

Appropriate conditioning and training, along with following safe guidelines for play, are the best ways to prevent injury.

Wanich offered the following tips:

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Most people who have received an invite to the upcoming Royal Wedding are fretting over what theyre going to wear to the event and shopping for the perfect dress and perfect pair of shoes.

Tara Palmer-Tomkinson isnt fretting over what dress shes going to wear to the event however, shes fretting over what nose shell be wearing to the wedding. Supposedly the UK socialite is wanting to have a new nose in place before she watches the royal nuptials.

Although this may seem like a bizarre way to prepare for such a special event, Tara is defending her desire for the new nose by saying she wants a nose with a straighter profile, something that apparently wasnt achieved by her last nose job, done due to damage from her previous cocaine habit.

Amazingly, she isnt the only one planning surgery for big events.

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An easy winter makes for an early allergy season Digg Stumble Upon Fark Reddit BY: Carolyn Butler

There were plenty of reasons to love this year’s “winter that wasn’t,” with its 60- and 70-degree days from November through February. But now it’s payback time — at least for those of us with allergies.
   
While the spring allergy season normally gets under way toward the end of March or beginning of April, some people have already been sniffling, sneezing and suffering with other symptoms for at least a month.
   
“It really is unusually early for patients to be this miserable,” says Derek Johnson, medical director of the Fairfax (Va.) Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Clinic. “The mild winter has Get more…

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Welcome to another Fight Back Friday! Today we are bringing together another collection of recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.

Who are they? Why, theyre the Food Renegades. You know who you are lovers of SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, and Ethical) food, traditional food, primal food, REAL food, the list goes on. I believe that by joining together, our influence can grow, and we can change the way America (and the industrialized world) eats!

So, lets have some fun.

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