News tagged with surgical
'Intelligent' materials to revolutionize surgical implants
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A brand new process that could revolutionise the reliability and durability of surgical implants, such as hip and knee replacements, has today, 2 December 08, received recognition for its ...
Mexicans put faith in masks -- but do they work?
Apr 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The cloth patches in green, blue and white are everywhere, clamped tight over the mouth and nose of teachers, toddlers, policemen and drunks. Even the statue at the church of St. Jude, patron of lost ...
'Beating' heart machine expedites development of new tools for heart surgery (w/Video)
May 12, 2009 |
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A new machine developed at North Carolina State University makes an animal heart pump much like a live heart after it has been removed from the animal's body, allowing researchers to expedite the development ...
Study shows that surgical weight loss does not eliminate obstructive sleep apnea
Aug 15, 2008 |
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A study in the August 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that surgical weight loss results in an improvement of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), but most patients continue to have moderate to severe OSA on ...
Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico
Apr 25, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. ...
Healthcare, the road to robotic helpers
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Robots are whirring away in factories all over the world, building cars, phones and cookers. Yet they can do so much more. Robotics for healthcare has been tipped as the next big wave, and Europe should be ...
Radiological treatment method spares patients surgery and offers 89 percent cost savings
Sep 21, 2009 |
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Pericardial effusion, the collection of fluid around the heart, typically occurs in patients following heart surgery and is usually treated using an invasive surgical drainage technique. However researchers have discovered ...
Common pain relief medication may encourage cancer growth
Nov 18, 2009 |
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Although morphine has been the gold-standard treatment for postoperative and chronic cancer pain for two centuries, a growing body of evidence is showing that opiate-based painkillers can stimulate the growth and spread of ...
Surgical Instrument Size Studied
Jul 25, 2008 |
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The concept of one size fits all works with many things—smocks, baseball caps and inner tubes. But not disposable laparoscopic surgical instruments.
Discovery of 'alert status' area in brain opens door to treatment of impaired consciousness disorders
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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A new understanding of how anesthesia and anesthesia-like states are controlled in the brain opens the door to possible new future treatments of various states of loss of consciousness, such as reversible coma, according ...
Surgical treatment provides new option for some colorectal cancer patients
Sep 30, 2008 |
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Research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine suggests that a surgical technique not traditionally used in advanced abdominal cancer may be a viable treatment option for some patients previously thought to be ...
Published ENT surgical innovations fall drastically
Sep 25, 2008 |
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The number of cases of surgical innovation published in otolaryngic medical journals has fallen drastically since the late 1980s, leading researchers to question the impact of government oversight over surgery, according ...
Prevention experts urge modification to 2009 H1N1 guidance for health care workers
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Three leading scientific organizations specializing in infectious diseases prevention issued a letter to President Obama today expressing their significant concern with current federal guidance concerning the use of personal ...
Only some Web sites provide patients with reliable information before having an operation
Oct 10, 2008 |
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New research published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons shows unsponsored and professional society Web sites provide significantly higher quality information about common elective surgical procedures compar ...
RU-486 abortion drug to be allowed in Italy
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jul 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, drawing fierce protests by the Vatican.
