Better brain imaging helps surgeons avoid damage to language functions
...te brain surgery risks and to more precisely guide operations so that damage to sensitive language areas is avoided. The breakthrough holds the promise of safer surgeries for the nearly 200,000 Americans diagnosed with brain tumors each year. It also may significantly improve odds of success in an increasingly...Patients' anaesthesia concerns reviewed
...awareness during surgery is rare-in around 0.2% of operations excluding obstetric and cardiac surgery. The article discusses how there have been 'slow but steady' improvements in reported pain after surgery; around 2% fewer patients per year have reported postoperative moderate to severe pain over the past 30 y...Fosrenol shows significant reduction in serum phosphate in Chinese end-stage kidney disease patients
...(CNS), gastrointestinal (GI), and renal. Shire has operations in the world's key pharmaceutical markets (US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Spain and Germany) as well as a specialist drug delivery unit in the US. For further information on Shire, please visit the Company's website: www.shire.com http://www.shire....First peer-support helpline for people concerned about hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
...tic counseling. The toll-free helpline will begin operations on Tuesday, December 2, and can be reached by calling: 1-866-824-RISK (7475). "Confronting real fears about illness such as breast and ovarian cancer is as important in treating a patient as dealing with the illness itself," says James Coyne, PhD, ...Regionalizing some surgical procedures would not result in unreasonable travel burdens on patients
...es to hospitals that perform high numbers of these operations could be implemented without making patients trave...volume standards could be implemented for selected operations without imposing unreasonable travel burdens on patients," the authors conclude.(JAMA. 2003;290:2703...Infants could benefit from early ultrasound screening for hip dysplasia
...ound screening seems to prevent many, but not all, operations for developmental hip dysplasia. Rates of timely screening (i.e., before 6 weeks of age) and training of doctors in ultrasound screening need to be improved."...World Summit on the Information Society
...rganise emergency assistance and/or reconstruction operations Envisat Europe's latest Earth observation satellite, that tracks and monitors the environment, including global climate change World Cultural Heritage ESA carries out a number of activities in support of the UN World Heritage Convention including m...Surgical technique may reduce pain after tonsillectomy
... no difference in hemorrhage (bleeding) during the operations between the two groups. The operation took an average of 3.2 minutes longer for group B. However, postoperative pain was less on days three, four and five following surgery for patients in the microdissection group than for patients in the stand...For leg-bypass patients, drugs can save lives and limbs, but many patients go without them
...patients with advanced PAD who had open-leg bypass operations at the U-M Health System between 1997 and 2002. Av...ing ultrasound. The bypass grafts used in their operations were mainly the patients' own veins, taken from the leg or other parts of the body. These autologous...Robotic surgery for young heart patients shortens hospital stay and speeds recovery, study indicates
...t the STS meeting, Ohye will show video footage of operations to divide a vascular ring -- a rare birth defect in which blood vessels surround the esophagus and trachea, reducing a child's ability to breathe. He will also present data on five vascular ring division patients who had a robot-assisted minimally in...Trouble sleeping in the hospital? Maybe it's that jackhammer
...ts in the thoracic surgery unit typically have had operations involving the lungs or esophagus, and the average length of their hospital stay is five to 10 days. "We wanted to experience the patient's perspective, so we became patients for one night," says Cmiel. "We got an earful." Peak dosimeter readings as ...Climara Pro (TM) helps alleviate menopausal hot flashes and night sweats
...cology, and gastroenterology. Berlex has business operations in New Jersey, California and Washington. For more information, please visit www.berlex.com. Certain statements in this press release that are neither reported financial results nor other historical information are forward-looking statements, includ...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
... 1953. This invention allowed surgeons to perform operations once deemed too risky to attempt. Improved versions allow surgeons today to perform bypass surgery and heart transplants. A renowned surgeon and teacher, Gibbon authored the textbook Surgery of the Chest. Lloyd Hall (1894-1971) Food preservatives ...Texas nonprofit corporation launches vaccine information service
...in Alexandria, Virginia. Last fall, NNii moved its operations to I4PH headquarters in Galveston, Texas. In the near future, I4PH plans to launch an additional immunization information Web site in both English and Spanish. This site will address immunization issues around the world....Heart attack patients face 25% lower death risk if hospitals follow national care standards
...ocedures -- angiographies, angioplasties or bypass operations -- during their post-heart attack hospital stay. The GAP effort made a big difference in the prescriptions they received both early and late in their hospital stay. Before GAP, only 19.8 percent of the patients were treated using standard orders tha...MEP calls for European strategy in the fight against breast cancer
...ust perform a minimum of 150 primary breast cancer operations per year and every surgeon must each perform at least 50 operations. Every patient's individual case has to be discussed before and after surgery in a multidisciplinary case conference. Ms Jns emphasised that 90% of breast cancer patients might be c...Gaining health while giving back to the community
...n improve their reading skills, to support library operations and help pick out books and read, to solve problems and play cooperatively. A small stipend of $150 to $200 a month was offered to the volunteers to reimburse for expenses. Volunteers signed up for "generative," not health-related reasons, says Fri...Operative time increases when training surgical residents in the operating room
...nd June 30, 2002, four academic surgeons performed operations without a resident. During that time, they either operated alone for hernia surgeries, or assisted each other for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal), colectomy (removal of part of the colon), and carotid endarterectomy (removal of p...Strategies could make for safer shift changes at hospitals
...make shift changes possible, they can also improve operations overall," she continued. The researchers were surprised by two findings. First, even though experts have suggested that incoming employees should read back information that was given to them to prevent misunderstandings, none of the businesses in the...'Off-pump' bypass surgery has similar outcomes, lower cost, than conventional bypass surgery
...approximately 21 percent of coronary artery bypass operations off-pump in 2002, according to background information in the article. In off-pump operations, the heart is kept beating, and with the help of a device, the beating heart is stabilized while the surgeon places the bypass grafts around the blocked arte...