New scoring system predicts gastric bypass surgery risk
...ok at performing lower-risk or a number of smaller procedures to reduce the potential risk." ...Diabetes confers health risk equivalent to ageing 15 years
...etes. When the researchers included cardiovascular procedures (eg bypass surgery) in the definition of CVD, this transition took place at age 41 years for men with diabetes and 48 years for women with diabetes. "Middle-aged and older people with diabetes seem on average to be at high risk of CVD, thus aggress...Radioactive scorpion venom for fighting cancer
...de Island--Health physicists are establishing safe procedures for a promising experimental brain-cancer therapy ...at he and his colleagues recently established safe procedures for the therapy, currently in the second sequence of phase-II human trials, which involve higher dos...Women surviving cardiovascular disease treatment in hospitals at higher rates: Healthgrades study
...re than 2,100 hospitals analyzed the following six procedures and diagnoses for each hospital's female patients: Coronary bypass surgery Valve replacement surgery Percutaneous coronary interventions Acute myocardial infarction Heart failure Stroke "In this year's study we were pleased to see such dram...The risky business of having a baby: why birth interventions are on the rise
...Increasingly, we are seeing women opt for invasive procedures because it's viewed as acceptable, responsible and a kind of 'insurance policy' against possible prenatal, delivery or postnatal problems." Dr Possamai-Inesedy says the conference will explore how pregnant women's experiences are being shaped by soci...Stanford doctors advance in bid to turn mice stem cells into blood vessels
...s to grow. In 2002, there were 1.5 million medical procedures done that required replacement blood vessels. "This is an exciting, emerging research front," said John Cook, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine). "It has great potential for therapeutic applications." Abilez's success is due in ...Queen's-led network looks at FAS aiming to minimize life-long learning problems
...Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility. New experimental procedures being developed at Queen's will link eye movement tasks to MRI images of the brain, creating an objective and much more specific way to evaluate brain function. By isolating individual brain responses, FASD researchers hope to gain greater insight in...Is expensive new heart rhythm treatment 'worth it'?
... some of these patients may need to receive repeat procedures in that time. The model also accounted for the fact that patients who were initially cured with LACA may re-develop atrial fibrillation over time. The researchers ran the computer simulation ten thousand times to more precisely define how much stroke...Sticky surfaces turn slippery with the flip of a molecular light switch
...ons involve expensive chemicals or labor-intensive procedures that result in significant process down-time. To make the new materials, Belfort and his coworkers attached spiropyran molecules to a widely used industrial polymer, poly(ether sulfone). Spiropyrans are a group of light-switchable organic molecules t...Preparation may help patients cope with nausea
...SALEM, N.C. Patients undergoing difficult medical procedures may benefit from getting advance detailed information about how unpleasant they might feel, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. "A person's expectations can strongly affect how they respond to adver...New ACC/AHA guidelines released for valvular heart disease
...eart disease. An estimated 95,000 inpatient valve procedures were performed in the United States in 2003. The guidelines discuss evaluating patients with heart murmurs, preventing and treating endocarditis, managing valve disease in pregnancy, and treating patients with concomitant coronary artery disease, a...Alberta develops world's first electronic surgical reporting
... "A tool that tracks the effectiveness of surgical procedures is an important step toward that goal." Without consistent improvements to cancer prevention and treatments the aging population in the province will contribute to a doubling of cancer cases by the year 2025. "We're committed to leadership in innovat...Lung function test underused in patients with COPD
...pirometry was used most frequently around surgical procedures that required general anesthesia, with 85.5 percent of patients having spirometry performed 30 days or less before their procedure. A pulmonary clinic visit was the factor that had the highest association with having a spirometry test. Patients seen...MUHC announces a transplant first in Quebec
...eter Metrakos (Liver Surgeon). "Historically these procedures are done separately, but because both organs were ...-liver transplants are rare--only a few successful procedures have been performed in Canada, and this is the first in Quebec....Some patients with heart attack shock survive years after aggressive treatment
...bias by New York physicians against doing invasive procedures in these highest risk patients. One study by Dr. Hochman and colleagues from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New England Research Institutes showed that shock patients in New York were less likely than patients in other states to be treated a...Media availability: Long-term survival of heart attack patients with shock
...tients treated with one of these revascularization procedures survived compared to about 20 percent of those receiving intensive medical care to stabilize their condition. The same study had previously shown that emergency angioplasty or bypass surgery for heart attack patients with shock improves 6-month survi...International breast cancer trial launched to judge success of treatments
New procedures which will help doctors decide which breast cancer patients will benefit most from radiotherapy begin trials this week. For the first time, techniques developed by University of Edinburgh will allow doctors to scan thousands of tissue samples of wome...Health risks continue well after the surgery is over
...from postoperative infections for certain surgical procedures may be as high as threefold." Infections and even cancer are concerns postsurgically as lower body temperature, blood transfusions and apparently volatile anesthetics actually suppress the immune response. "Patients come for their cancer operation a...The appearance of your hands can reveal your age, study finds
...taining skin thickness and fullness. Non-surgical procedures like laser treatments and chemical peels can reduce age spots. Fat injections can be used to plump up hands and reduce the visibility of veins and laser ablation of unwanted hand veins can reduce veins."...Study finds sizeable underutilization of hip and knee replacement procedures
...action levels stood firm at 85-90 percent; and the procedures themselves were highly effective in relieving pain and restoring function. The study's sources did not include people who might benefit but had not visited a doctor, those who did not reveal all pain issues to their physicians, or who were not approp...