The Medical Freedom Channel

“A new study may help older people and their doctors decide how to treat a very common and dangerous problem - a bulging abdominal artery threatening to burst. Fixing these weak spots by inserting a fabric sleeve into the artery, like a new tube in a bicycle tire, led to fewer deaths and complications than traditional surgery to implant this patch, the study found. The study involved more than 45,000 Medicare patients, average age 76, with abdominal aortic aneurysms. More than 200,000 of these are diagnosed in the U.S. each year. The number is growing since the government recently recommended screening male smokers over 55 for the problem.” (01/31/08)