First simultaneous cochlear implant operation for WA
A 25-year-old man will undergo Western Australia's first ever simultaneous bilateral cochlear implant operation on Thursday 9 February at St John of God Hospital in Subiaco....... Danny Clarke will have two cochlear hearing devices implanted in both his ears at the same time....... Danny, who became a successful search and rescue helicopter air crewman despite losing his hearing in his right ear...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement safe, successful in high-risk patients
... To evaluate th...Improved neonatal care has helped reduce prevalence of cerebral palsy in premature babies
... Cerebral palsy is a permanent, but changing disorder of movement, posture, and motor function. It is the commonest disability of children in western Europe, with a birth prevalence of about two cases per 1000 live births. Infants of very low birth weight (VLBW)--those born weighing less t...Recording neo-natal consultations is helpful to parents
... The parents of babies requiring care in neo-natal intensive care units (NICU) often do not recall the information given to them. Researchers in Australia set out to assess the usefulness of audio recording the conversations between mothers and their neo-natal consultants. Two hundred mothers with babies in NICU were put into two groups the first had their consultation recorded and were give...Cycles of Cutaneous leishmaniasis are linked to climate
... Using mathematical models they were able to show that this disease has cycles of approximately 3 y that are related to temperature and indices of the El Nio Southern Oscillation, including the sea surface temperature. Using such a model they could predict the incidence of cutaneous leishmaniasis up to 12...New method shows that neocortical nerve cells are not renewed
... Many scientists have suspected that the cerebral nerve cells lack this renewal ability. However, studies on apes and rodents have indicated that brain cells can reform in mammals after all including man. One problem with these findings has been the...The Lancet Neonatal Series at one year of age has anything changed?
One year after The Lancet published its Neonatal Survival Series, Joy Lawn (Saving Newborn Lives Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa) and colleagues conclude that more urgency is needed if Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 for child survival to be reached by 2015. ...... Since last year's call for action, there have been positive changes in policy and funding. More efforts have been made to inc...Drug may fight lupus and atherosclerosis simultaneously
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. People with lupus are prone to premature accelerated atherosclerosis. Now scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine think they have a way to prevent or decrease this atherosclerosis and prevent heart attacks....... "Premature accelerated atherosclerosis is one of the leading causes of death and disability in lupus," said Nilamadhab Mishra, M.D., a rheumatologist...Penn researchers discover the powerful tool of simultaneous fMRI and PET imaging
Philadelphia, PA) - Clinical researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) are the first to combine fMRI and PET scanning in radiology, creating a way to compare different measurements of the brain's function concurrently. This analysis could lead to better diagnosis and treatment in patients suffering from brain disorders, like Alzheimer's disease. ......"By using these tw...Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
Percutaneous aortic valve replacement is becoming a reality and brings new hope for a number of patients who cannot currently be treated with traditional surgical techniques. ... ...Whereas surgical valve replacement concerns about 200,000 patients worldwide every year, it is estimated that between 1/3 (Iung et al, Euro Heart Survey, 2003) and 2/3 (Rambas Pai, USC AHA 2004) of patients do not rec...Design of neonatal intensive care units critical to infant health
Partially presented at the COLLEGE STATION, June 15, 2005 - Effective neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) provide more than just services - they're designed in a way that contributes to the health of the infants being treated, says a Texas A&M University authority on health care facility design and environmental psychology. ... ... Mardelle Shepley, a professor of architectur...Orqis Medical receives unconditional FDA approval for pivotal trial of percutaneous CHF therapy
Lake Forest, Calif. April 26, 2005 Orqis Medical Corporation, developer of the novel and proprietary catheter-based Cancion cardiac recovery system (CRS ) to treat congestive heart failure (CHF), today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unconditional approval for researchers to treat up to 200 CHF patients at 40 centers participating in the company's MOMENTUM pivotal clinical tri...'Nanoshells' simultaneously detect and destroy cancerous cells
Researchers at Rice University in Texas have developed a new approach to fighting cancer, based on nanoscale particles that can both detect and destroy cancerous cells. The report appears in the April 13 issue of the American Chemical Society's journal . ACS is the world's largest scientific society....... Current molecular imaging approaches only detect the cancer but don't offer a method of t...