Cincinnati surgeons report new treatment for often-fatal injury
...ring a common and deadly form of aortic injury--an advance that could help reduce the number of deaths caused by auto accidents and major falls. The potentially life-saving technique is reported by Joseph Giglia, MD, interim director of UC's division of vascular surgery, and his team in the March edition of ...Magnetically guided catheter zaps atrial fibrillation
...nity in general as a potential important technical advance in the treatment of atrial fibrillation," Dr. Faddis said. Dr. Faddis said this new system should be easier to master, as well as being more precise, than conventional catheter ablation. "Because of computer control, the efficiency of the procedure...Penn researchers awarded $3.2 million for Musculoskeletal Disorders Center
...Centers nationally. The Center aims to enhance and advance the research productivity of investigators in the ...tigators with the tools they need to fundamentally advance their research. "The purpose of the Center is to support and foster collaborations between program...International study questions health benefits of moderate drinking
...ors caution that their report, published online in advance of the May 2006 issue of Addiction Research and Theory, has not disproved the notion that light drinking is good for health, as too few error-free studies have been performed. They suggest, however, that the extent to which these benefits actually tr......ion of a maximum of two sutures. However, with the advance in medical engineering, an endoscopic transmural suture has been developed that enables 10 or 12 sutures to be carried out. Unlike conventional procedures, known as fundoplication surgery, this technique has the advantage of gaining access to the les...VCU Medical Center team implants total artificial heart
...erican Heart Association named the TAH-t the No. 1 advance in cardiovascular medicine. An August 2004 paper in the New England Journal of Medicine found in a pivotal clinical trial that the one-year survival rate following human heart transplant for patients receiving the TAH-t was 70 percent, versus 31 per...FDA grants priority review of Remicade® for children with Crohn's disease
... that are considered to be a potential therapeutic advance over current therapies. Acceptance of the sBLA filing does not mean that a license has been issued for this indication nor does it represent any evaluation of the adequacy of the data submitted in the sBLA. REMICADE was FDA-approved in 1998 as the ...JCI table of contents, April 6, 2006
...lay or prevent HD. In a study appearing April 6 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journ... are unclear. Now, in a study appearing April 6 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Sergio A. Lira and c...Study: Paramedics save more lives when they don't follow the rules
... of Medicine chose to publish the report online in advance of the journal's April print issue. "Cardiocerebral Resuscitation eliminates certain previously recommended procedures and reprioritizes the order of actions the emergency medical services deliver," said Michael J. Kellum, MD, leading author of the ...Researchers resolve how COX inhibitors cause heart hazards, and offer alternative treatment strategy
...l. Now, in a study appearing online on April 13 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Garret FitzGerald and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report how COX-2 inhibitors increase the incidence of myocardial infarction and st...Treating populations infected with HIV and latent TB could speed the emergence of drug-resistant TB
...t strategy has flaws. Their findings appear in the advance online edition of the May 2, 2006 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers, led by Ted Cohen, doctoral student at HSPH, and senior author Megan Murray, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, developed a mathematical mod...Mayo Clinic finding may double genetic screening effectiveness for sudden death heart condition
...reening for mutations that cause HCM gives parents advance knowledge they can use to prepare for treatment, ranging from medication to defibrillator implantation, to surgery and lifelong medical surveillance for worsening symptoms. Significance of the Mayo Clinic Research Boosting the sensitivity of the HC...JCI table of contents, April 20, 2006
... than one. The study appears online on April 20 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journ...t. Now, in a study appearing online on April 20 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Julia Segre and coll...Dynamic duo: Combination therapy reverses type 1 diabetes
... than one. The study appears online on April 20 in advance of print publication in the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. In patients with type 1 diabetes, the autoimmune response destroys insulin-producing cells (beta cells) in pancreatic islets, thereby subjecting these individuals often ...End-of-life treatment preferences may change as health declines
...eatments in the future. This poses a challenge to advance care planning, in which patients record instructio...ealth have led some to conclude that instructional advance directives are a misguided means of care planning," they continue. "However, the methods we used to...For one Stanford doctor, the beat goes on during open-heart surgery
... conventional bypass. "Beating-heart surgery is an advance in cardiac surgery because it provides a better result for patients," said John Puskas, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, and one of the 12 authors of the paper. Still, scientific evidence does not yet conclusi...Technique that makes brain tumours fluoresce improves surgical outcome
...ssue of The Lancet Oncology. "This technique is an advance over older, traditional methods, because it is simple, cheap, can be performed in real-time, and has now been put to a truly prospective test", claims coordinating investigator Dr Walter Stummer. The brain tumours, known as malignant gliomas, have a...Novel stem cell technology leads to better spinal cord repair
...s believe they have identified a new way, using an advance in stem-cell technology, to promote recovery after...e work. Researchers believe they made an important advance in stem cell technology by focusing on a new cell type that appears to have the capability of repair...Choice of chemotherapy before liver metastasis surgery matters for some patients
... study shows us that we need to screen patients in advance and use the drug that is right for them." The othe... study shows us that we need to screen patients in advance and use the drug that is right for them, Vauthey says "...What is the sound of one person talking? New speech collection tells all, syllable by syllable
...e collection called the Buckeye Speech Corpus to advance their research. (Researchers refer to a collected body of recordings as a corpus.) "A critical part of communication is how your ears translate the sounds coming out of my mouth into recognizable words," said Mark Pitt, one of the leaders of the pro...