HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate
...ps most affected by HIV/AIDS in the border region, needle sharing among injection drug users leads to increased HIV infection, and Tijuana is on a major drug-trafficking route. The model used in the study suggests that injection drug use and sex trade may be driving the HIV epidemic in Tijuana. The popula...Morphine and topical anaesthesia effective in treating procedural pain in newborn infants
...s of the central line insertion (skin preparation, needle puncture and recovery). "We found that morphine, o...ure, while tetracaine decreased sensation from the needle puncture site alone." Both medications were associated with side effects: morphine caused mild respi...Morphine and topical anesthesia found effective in treating pain in newborn infants
...fferent phases of the procedure (skin preparation, needle puncture, and recovery). The authors found that t...s, whereas tetracaine decreased sensation from the needle puncture site," they write. Concerning adverse events, morphine caused respiratory depression and te...Flow technique could simplify targeting cancer therapy
...of this technology to tissue samples obtained from needle or surgical biopsies of patients with suspected breast cancers," said Nunez. "Furthermore, it's possible this approach may also be applied to a broad range of other solid tumors, including colon, ovarian, prostate and gastric cancer, to name a few." ...UK plans to cut street prostitution will threaten sex workers' health
... red light areas, such as provision of condoms and needle exchange schemes, could also be compromised if this strategy is enforced, they warn. This could have profound consequences both for sex workers and the wider population. Furthermore, collaborative work by healthcare professionals, social services, an...Researchers develop portable 'vein finder' for faster, more accurate injections
..., it's still easy to miss when you try to insert a needle into the tissue below." The Doppler effect is a p...ile a disposable coupler box holds a reflector and needle guide. The needle guide is positioned parallel to the sound beam being transmitted by a transducer i...Patient safety monitoring at Hopkins Hospital finds law of unintended consequences at work
...the catheter. The valve also contains an enclosed needle plunger with a screw-top mechanism that allows for ready attachment to syringes for administering medications. Blood samples are also taken via such catheter valves. As the Hopkins investigation and other inquiries were to show, the Alaris device ...Breast CT is more comfortable than mammography and may detect tumors better, research shows
...ious or highly suspicious for cancer and warrant a needle biopsy. Prior to the needle biopsy, each volunteer undergoes breast CT. Lindfors and her colleagues then compare the breast CT s...'No sweat' CT-guided injection treats embarrassing hand condition
...omputed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy allows precise needle guidance in the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis,...ocedure, interventional radiologists make a single needle puncture through the upper back and, using CT guidance, inject a phenol-based medication that interr...Obesity prevents injections from reaching muscle
...in their buttocks. Dr. Chan proposes that a longer needle length is required to increase the success rate of...issue there is in the buttock, the less likely the needle will reach the muscles underneath that fat," Dr. Chan said. Co-authors are Jane Colville, M.B., Orla...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...to avoid injections, and 13.5% reported having had needle phobia at some time....Consensus panel calls for expanded role of needle biopsies, MRI and less invasive procedures
...pathologistsand oncologists say minimally invasive needle breast biopsies and sentinel node biopsies should ... year. The panel concluded that minimally invasive needle breast biopsy is "the procedure of choice for image-detected breast abnormalities" and keeps themajo...Findings relate aspirin-induced ulcers, hearing loss
..., molecules that stick through the membrane like a needle through a cloth. First identified five years ago, prestin is a transmembrane protein found in the inner ear. A motor protein, prestin is thought to act like a piezocrystal, converting electrical signals into mechanical motion. In the outer hair cells...American Thoracic Society journal news tips for June 2005 (second issue)
...no preoperative surgical biopsies performed. Fine needle aspiration was performed on four PET-positive nodules and two growing PET negative nodules. The study is published in the second issue for June 2005 of the ATS peer-reviewed American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. ATS STATEMENT O...Ultrasound-guided biopsies are safe alternative to endoscopic biopsies of the pancreas
... the procedures a 20G fine-needle aspiration (FNA) needle was used; seven cases were performed with an 18G b...s adequate. "Adequate samples were obtained by FNA needle and the larger biopsy gun. If we can get an adequate sample we should use a smaller needle," he said...New ultrasound technique could reduce number of diagnostic procedures for breast lumps
...n the study. Cyst aspiration is the use of a small needle inserted into the breast to draw fluid from the mass in order to confirm that it is a cyst. Dr. Ghate will present the full results of the study on May 17 during the American Roentgen Ray Society Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA....Patients with suspicious axillary breast lymph nodes should undergo fine-needle aspiration
...ody using a very thin needle. The placement of the needle is generally guided by various imaging methods. In the case of axillary lymph nodes (the nodes found in the underarm area), the procedure is guided by ultrasound. "The procedure is fast, painless and safe. No major complications are described after t...Expandable electrodes safe and effective for radiofrequency ablation of liver tumors
... fixed within the liver tissue when deployed so no needle movement is possible during RFA, which makes the procedure safer, and no electrode cooling is required during ablation, making the procedure easier and quicker. For the study, the researchers, analyzed the results of RFA with expandable electrodes in...Breast CT reaches clinical testing: May improve on mammography
...trial have the breast CT examination followed by a needle biopsy of the suspicious tissue. If the trial confirms that breast CT detects tumors as well as mammography, as investigators expect, the next step will be a larger trial to determine whether the new technology can indeed detect tumors earlier than ......lso showed that children who had been infected via needle (for example, from a blood transfusion) responded better to treatment than those who were infected by their mothers at birth. Lastly, the researchers found that patients with normal liver enzyme levels before treatment responded better than those wit...