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Telephone-delivered care for treating depression after CABG surgery appears to improve outcomes

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients who received telephone-delivered collaborative care for treatment of depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery reported greater improvement in measures of quality of life, physical functioning and mood ...


Use of rib cartilage grafts in rhinoplasty results in patient satisfaction, few complications

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rib cartilage from human donors is well tolerated as a grafting material in nasal plastic surgery and yields positive functional, structural and cosmetic results, even in complex cases, according to a report in the November/December ...





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Improving the odds:A new method for bone marrow transplantation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although bone marrow transplants have long been standard for acute leukemia, current treatments still rely on exact matches between donor and patient. Now, scientists at the University of Perugia, Italy, and the Weizmann ...


Cholesterol-lowering drugs also may protect stem cell transplant patients from GVHD

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created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the U.S. Now a new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant ...


Brandeis studies evaluate visionary approach to improving eyesight

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Joseph Balboni loves sports. An avid tennis player and golfer, as well as baseball fan, the 46-year-old insurance agent became increasingly frustrated over time as his eyesight dimmed due to keratoconus, a degenerative eye ...


Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts (AP)

Scientists: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughts

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created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(AP) -- A group of European scientists said Wednesday they have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts.


Death-inducing proteins key to complications of bone marrow transplantation

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment for a number of cancers and other medical conditions is transplantation with bone marrow from a genetically nonidentical individual (a process known as allogeneic bone marrow transplantation [allo-BMT]).


New data emerges on liver transplant survival rates

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created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Miami School of Medicine compared the outcomes of cirrhotic patients who underwent liver transplants for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus alcoholic liver disease (ETOH) and found ...


New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs. It is the basis of a new tool that may help ...


Gene mismatch influences success of bone marrow transplants

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A commonly inherited gene deletion can increase the likelihood of immune complications following bone marrow transplantation, an international team of researchers reports in the November 22 advance online issue of Nature Ge ...


First reconstitution of an epidermis from human embryonic stem cells

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stem cell research is making great strides. This is yet again illustrated by a study carried out by the I-STEM Institute (France), published in the Lancet on 21 November 2009. The I-STEM team, directed by Marc Peschanski has su ...


Physician bias might keep life-saving transplants from black and Hispanic patients

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created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Physician bias might be the reason why African Americans are not receiving kidney/pancreas transplants at the same rate as similar patients in other racial groups. Dr. Keith Melancon, director of kidney and pancreas transplantation ...



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