Laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery effectively improves obesity-related health problems
...ern Pennsylvania Hospital report that laparoscopic surgery for obesity, known as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, ef...ollege of Gastroenterology, reveal that after this surgery many patients are able to stop medications for a range of serious obesity-related health problems, i...Blood transplants may be more harmful than bone marrow transplants in pediatric leukemia patients
...he difficulties of bone marrow collection, such as surgery and anesthesia. Since peripheral blood transplantation has been shown to be as safe and effective as bone marrow transplantation in adults, some doctors have begun recommending use of peripheral blood transplants in pediatric patients. Findings ...Genetics testing saves health care dollars
... have the mutation, were able to have prophylactic surgery to significantly decrease their risk of cancer in the future--also a potential savings in health care costs. The cost analysis was done while testing a large family for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2, a rare hereditary syndrome consisti...Study questions safety of heart procedures at hospitals without cardiac surgery programs
...edure in hospitals that do not have onsite cardiac surgery programs, a study led by Dartmouth Medical School ...f mortality than those in hospitals with a cardiac surgery program. The study, which appears in the October 27 issue of JAMA, investigates the outcomes of over...Technology points to possible targets for epilepsy and Alzheimer's drugs
...res couldn't be controlled with medication who had surgery to remove a small portion of their temporal lobes, the part of the brain where the seizures originated. Tissue samples from two of these patients were compared with tissue samples from subjects of the same age and sex. Testing revealed that protei...Swallowing multiple magnets poses danger to children
... well as excess fluid. Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove the beads and repair a perforation in the intestinal wall. In the second case, a 22-month-old boy swallowed seven small, tablet-shaped magnets. They had separated into two groups that attracted each other through the intestinal wall, c...Elderly experience long-term cognitive decline after surgery
...n Las Vegas. "The issue of cognitive decline after surgery in the elderly population is a very important one ...: before surgery, at discharge, three months after surgery and two years after surgery. The tests measured patients' abilities in four domains: psychomotor and...DepoDur found to be innovative option for postoperative pain relief
...en as a single epidural injection before or during surgery in procedures such as hip and knee replacement, lower abdominal surgery and elective Caesarean section. Unlike currently available epidural morphine formulations, DepoDur T...Early disclosure: Post-operative radiotherapy improves progression-free survival in prostate cancer
Immediate post-operative radiotherapy following surgery to remove the prostate results in improved progression-free survival for prostate cancer patients, according to the results of a study presented here today (Tuesday 26th October 2004) by Prof. Michel Bolla of CHU de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, at the...New radiotherapy regime benefits young women with breast cancer
...ion of early breast cancer using breast-conserving surgery were randomly assigned to undergo 50Gy irradiation of the whole breast either with or without an additional 16Gy of radiotherapy to the tumour bed (radiotherapy boost). 362 local recurrences were observed: 232 in the no-boost group and 130 in the boo...UGA professor receives $3 million grant from National Cancer Institute for breast cancer research
...alism and Mass Communication, underwent successful surgery for prostate cancer after a routine screening caught the disease early. Diagnosed at only 42, Springston calls himself "the classic poster child for early detection." Doctors told him he may not have lived to be 50 if the cancer hadn't been detected ...New understanding of neural circuits may help development of thought-controlled prosthetic devices
...ers examined 11 awake patients who were undergoing surgery to treat the brain disorder Parkinson's disease. Before their surgical treatment was performed the researchers used electrodes to simultaneously record signals from groups of nerve cells in two regions of the brain that aid movement control. Nerve ce...Significant pain relief following gastric bypass surgery
...and tendon pain, decreased significantly following surgery and initial weight loss, even in non-weight bearin..." Gastric bypass surgery involves stapling the upper stomach to create a small pouch that is then attached to the small intes...Sleep apnoea increases risks in general anaesthesia
... high risk of developing complications when having surgery under general anaesthesia, say researchers in this...l complications before and after surgery, even for surgery not related to the condition. Options that should be considered include alternative methods of pain ...Parkinson's patients get bilateral benefits with unilateral brain stim
...on both sides of the body, potentially cutting the surgery risk for some patients. The results are published in the October issue of the journal Motor Control. There are currently two sites in each hemisphere of the brain where stimulation is targeted. In the same study, researchers found no significant diff...Northwestern University receives $7.5 million for regenerative medicine
...gineering, neurology, endocrinology and transplant surgery -- is focusing on a key component of regenerative medicine: synthetic scaffolds and their interactions with cells. Without the development of effective scaffold technologies Stupp doubts significant progress can be made in regenerative medicine. The ...Researcher says screenings vital to reduce stroke rate
...nd surgery. Recent research confirmed the value of surgery to open narrowed neck vessels in reducing stroke r...tively that we can reduce stroke risk by half with surgery to 'clean out' narrowed arteries leading to the brain even in patients who have no symptoms," said ...Congress of Neuological Surgeons meets in San Francisco
...neurological surgeon and professor of neurological surgery at the Universtiy of Iowa, will offer insights into the state of pediatric, spinal and skull base neurosurgery. Other featured speakers include Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet President and Nobel Laureate, and Burt Rutan, designer of the legendary ...Study explores treatment for urinary incontinence among prostate cancer surgery patients
...rinary incontinence, will be recruited early after surgery and divided into three groups. The first group will receive written instructions on how to exercise pelvic floor muscles. The second group will receive a one-hour training session that includes a demonstration of the exercise, three weekly follow-up...Weight loss surgery can help reduce metabolic syndrome in obese patients
...c syndrome, the average weight loss one year after surgery was 38.2 kilograms, or 31.9 percent of their initi...patients who underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery one year after the surgeries. "The metabolic syndrome is prevalent in 52.2 percent of morbidly ob...