Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Now Offers Microwave Thermotherapy For Treatment Of Prostate Disease
..., while protecting adjacent tissues with apatented cooling system. According to Mark Vogel, M.D., Chief, Division of Urology at Cedars-Sinai, "Thisis a minimally invasive procedure that can be done on an outpatient basis andusually with light anesthesia." According to Dr. Vogel, the procedure has lowcomplic...Medical tip sheet for June 4 (a)
...,while protecting adjacent tissues with a patented cooling system. THERAPY SHOWS PROMISE IN PREVENTING REJECTION OF TRANSPLANTED ORGANS A therapeutic approach that appears to significantly reduce the rejection riskof transplanted organs is currently being studied in multi-center clinicaltrials but already h...First brain cancer surgeries using new space-age probe are successful
... used to treat cancer. Theentire light source and cooling system is only the size of a briefcase. The LEDprobe can be used for hours at a time while still remaining cool to the touch,and can be purchased for a fraction of the cost of a laser. Before the surgeries, Whelan and his colleagues performe...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October 2000
... but where one is available, it will provide space cooling and dehumidification as well as hot water. If broadly adopted, use of this water heater could save almost 1 percent of the country's energy consumption. [Contact: John Tomlinson] NUCLEAR ENERGY Next-generation safe power plants . . . An ORNL te...Science, engineering and technology newstips
...RI) machines. Their use is limited by the need for cooling to almost absolute zero (less than minus 450 F) with liquid helium. In 1986, scientists discovered that some ceramic compounds became superconductors at higher temperatures, around minus 390 F. While this is still pretty cold, this jump in operating...COOL AID safe after stroke, may deter side effect of clot-busters
...tle or no improvement, researchers induced surface cooling in patients with severe ischemic strokes (caused b...ed for the study. Hypothermia was initiated with cooling blankets and ice water/alcohol baths. To prevent shivering, the patients received drugs to paralyze...Science, engineering and technology news tips -- August 2001
...so long for agriculture to develop say that global cooling is a bigger problem for human survival. Agriculture was impossible 13,000 years ago during the Ice Age, although humans were otherwise quite sophisticated, say UC Davis Professors Peter Richerson and Robert Bettinger and UCLA Professor Robert Boyd. T...Fever immediately after heart bypass surgery associated with cognitive decline
...t the brain, including the possibility of actively cooling the body postoperatively in order to counteract this hyperthermic tendency. These strategies also include using minimally invasive surgical techniques, which means that the heart-lung machine is not needed. The researchers have also found a genet...Stanford researchers warm to cooling heart attack patients
...hers at Stanford University Medical Center believe cooling the body may help to minimize the damaging effects... cardiologist. "I have great hope that therapeutic cooling can preserve heart muscle and significantly improve a patient's long-term prospects." Stanfor...NIH supports ice slurry at Argonne
...e the high-fluidity ice particle mixture for rapid cooling of the blood to sustain the heart and brain cells ...or a significant amount of time. Because external cooling works too slowly, the team proposed that the ice slurry be injected into the body to induce faster, ...Cool brain opens stroke treatment window, say Stanford researchers
...iversity School of Medicine researchers shows that cooling the brain can lengthen the therapeutic window, giv...tors more time to protect brain cells. The idea of cooling the brain isn't new. Study leader Gary Steinberg, MD, PhD, the Lacroute-Hearst Professor of Neurosur...Cooling helmets may provide innovative stroke treatment
...e Conference. In a Japanese study, a "helmet-type cooling apparatus" was tested on 17 patients with severe i...in from ischemic injury. However, overall surface cooling is associated with various adverse effects, said Kentaro Yamada, M.D., of the National Cardiovascula...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
... Sound continues to find innovative new uses, from cooling objects in a refrigerator to destroying tumors without surgical incision. Acoustics continues to explode with activity....Studies from the November issue of The Archives of Dermatology, a theme issue on facial rejuvenation
...ing. "In summary, the present method of using air cooling along with single-pass CO2 laser skin resurfacing is an effective technique," write the researchers. "Without exception, all patients felt that the treatment on the side that was cooled with air was much more pleasant." Acne Scars Diminished by Las...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...ng an amorphous structure, requiring only a modest cooling rate to make amorphous, thereby constituting what is referred to as a 'bulk metallic glass' material (also known as amorphous steels, when they contain 60 to 70 atomic percent iron). Using an iron composition of 50 to 70 atomic percent, low-cost bulk......from Seattle, USA indicates that, for some babies, cooling can significantly reduce brain damage. "This demon...ng to brain damage hours or days afterwards". The cooling study results from a long series of studies begun a decade ago when the UK researchers started to wo...