2004's top 10 hot topics in plastic surgery
...ot Topics in Plastic Surgery. 1. Teenage plastic surgery If you believe everything you read, you might think more teenagers are having cosmetic surgery than are going to college. Contrary to popular belief, people 18 and younger make up only 4 per...ZYVOX(R) demonstrates high success rate for patients who develop MRSA surgical site infections
...s extremely important since any patient undergoing surgery is at risk," said Dr. John Weigelt, lead investiga...d professor and vice chairman of the department of surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "These data demonstrate that ZYVOX had significantly higher mi...Little evidence that breast cancer diagnosis leads to employment discrimination, study concludes
...ad to higher divorce rates, and the type of breast surgery plays little role in a woman's sexual function or satisfaction. "We should, however, not grow complacent about, nor should we trivialize, the emotional and physical pain of acute cancer treatment," she writes. "However, future research on breast canc...Fred Hutchinson receives $9.7 million to lead early detection consortium
...can cure it virtually 100 percent of the time with surgery and targeted radiotherapy," she said. "Once it has spread, it requires chemotherapy and becomes much harder to treat successfully." For example, solid tumors can be cured 90 percent of the time if they're detected and treated early, whereas cure rate...Reducing anti-rejection meds after transplant shows less complications
...em Abu-Elmagd, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S., professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Center at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (UPMC) Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute and lead author of the study. ...New data sets survival benchmark for Pfizer's ELLENCE
...he two arms: median age was 50 years, conservative surgery was performed in 52% of patients, 39% of tumors were grade III, 79% were HR positive, 21% of patients were HR negative and 62% of patients had one to three positive lymph nodes. The prescribed treatment was completed in 98% of patients in the FEC 10...Strokes: Dental x-rays reveal more than cavities
... modification, medications such as blood thinners, surgery or other interventional procedures such as a catheter. Treatable risk factors for stroke High blood pressure Tobacco use Diabetes mellitus Carotid or other artery disease Heart disease or disorders Transient ischemic attacks (warning strokes) ...Jefferson scientists find way to see breast cancer activity from outside the body
...e able to avoid a great deal of worry and unneeded surgery if cancer gene activity could be detected from outside the body," says Eric Wickstrom, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology and microbiology and immunology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadel...Novel p53 gene-based therapy boosts immune system and reduces tumor size
...of a novel gene-based therapy before breast cancer surgery reduced tumor size by nearly 80 percent on average, researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium meeting. The therapy, known as Advexin, also showed evidence that the...Cell marker identifies patients who are more likely to respond to taxol
...drug Taxol, which is commonly used before or after surgery for stage I-III breast cancers, even though only a subset of women ultimately benefit from this treatment. Patients whose breast cancer cells have lost their ability to express a protein called "tau" are twice as likely to have a good response to T...Aromatase inhibitors should be first-line treatment for certain type of breast cancer
...HE LANCET. Tamoxifen therapy for five years after surgery is the established treatment for postmenopausal women with hormone-sensitive breast cancer. However, its use is associated with several side effects including endometrial cancer and blood-clotting disorders. The ATAC study is an international collabo...Accumulated lead exposure may be an important risk factor for cataracts
...ors write. They add that expenditures for cataract surgery comprise the largest single line item in the Medicare budget. "These are, to our knowledge, the first data suggesting that accumulated lead exposure, such as that commonly experienced by adults in the United States, may be an important, unrecognized ...Stem cell research: The new medicine of the future
...he longest survivors of heart- and lung-transplant surgery in the United Kingdom. By Roger Pedersen and Julia Polak...Newborns with heart defect have low blood flow in brain before surgery
...t--one-third of which are severe enough to require surgery during the newborn period. Many of those high-risk... Children's Hospital found PVL to be common before surgery in newborns with congenital heart disease. The current study could not determine whether the low blo...Two days of post-surgical pain relief now possible with just one shot
...trol to help ease pain for people undergoing major surgery in the United States. Every year, millions of Amer...ry. "DepoDur is good news for people having major surgery and is also a welcome change for physicians," said Gavin Martin, M.D., assistant clinical professor ...Radiologists use MRI to keep basketball players on their feet
... Major, M.D., associate professor of radiology and surgery at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. "T... prevent injury in two athletes. The first avoided surgery through a combination of supports and bone stimulation, while the second player's existing orthotic ...Outpatient lung cancer procedure promising for inoperable disease
... Lung cancer patients who are poor candidates for surgery have a new alternative with image-guided radiofreq...tion improves, we eventually will be able to avoid surgery by eradicating early-stage lung cancer with minimally invasive means," said study co-author Damian D...New stroke prevention therapy as effective as invasive surgery
...rotid artery disease is surgery, but while carotid surgery is usually successful, it has significant risks, D...ent this problem. Also, the stress that comes from surgery can cause potentially fatal complications like heart attack and stroke," Dr. Piccoli said. To ...Early detection reduces threat of foot injury in college basketball players
...etes. One player included in the MRI study avoided surgery through a combination of supports and bone stimulation, Major said. Adjustments to an existing orthotic provided immediate relief for a second player who had pre-existing symptoms. A third player developed a stress fracture before he could be fitted ......uction is the second most popular cosmetic plastic surgery procedure in the United States. More than 320,000 people had the procedure in 2003, up 13 percent since 2002, according to the ASPS. ...