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NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

...rketing a robotic device that enables a surgeon to perform laparoscopic gall bladder and reflux disease surge...the console to control three robotic arms that can perform the surgery using a variety of surgical tools. The product, the Da Vinci Surgical System, made by In...

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

... resistance.The best way out of this problem is to perform an on the spot skin test to check if the patient is actually hypersensitive to penicillin, the scientists say. To reach these conclusions, the researchers conducted a review of 14 prior studies conducted in the last four decades. They found that 8...

Caffeine keeps soldiers sharp

...prove performance for military servicemen who must perform complex tasks or who need help staying alert for longer periods of time, according to a new report by the National Academy of Sciences. The report, by the academy's Institute of Medicine, found that 100 to 600 mg of caffeine, the equivalent of one to...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation safe for infants

...er, more experienced physicians are more likely to perform successful procedures in infants than those with less experience."...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...nd to insulin, the hormone which instructs them to perform this function. The increased blood sugar levels cause symptoms such as fatigue, weight loss and blurred vision, and can make the patient far more prone to heart disease and stroke. Patients often have to greatly modify their diets and take exercis...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...mmon than recognized. Up to 65% of patients cannot perform daily tasks because of total-body stiffness or fre...ten, and reported improvements in their ability to perform work-related and household tasks. The Findings indicate that intravenous immune globulin is safe, w...

Organs made from cloned embryos

...unclear whether these made from cloned embryos can perform all the duties of the ordinary variety, the researchers said they work well enough to produce urine. "It's one of the more provocative pieces of news that I've heard from this whole area. We can't evaluate the claim without seeing the data. There a...

Computers may become surgeons

...ch doctors use sophisticated imaging technology to perform surgical procedures....

Mothers with periodontitis may deliver premature babies

... away from dental care. "I advise periodontists to perform scaling and root planing, along with any supportive therapy, in the second trimester for pregnant patients with periodontal disease," said Dr. Jeffcoat....

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

... cracks." Interventional cardiologists most often perform angioplasties. "I think this and other new studies will go a long way in improving the quality of care of all patients with coronary artery disease," he said. Serruys said the researchers used the drug fluvastatin because it has a proven safety recor...

Stroke and Dementia - a ghastly association

...s in memory, cognitive function and the ability to perform daily living activities. Researchers from Madrid, Spain reviewed data on more than 250 stroke patients who were admitted to a hospital for treatment. // They looked at medical history, neurological evaluation, and completed surveys. They identified ...

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...uction process and the only way to save her was to perform an emergency hysterectomy, she claimed. The other was an incomplete abortion. Given in the hands of unscrupulous fly-by-night abortionists who are thriving unchecked in UP, this would wreak havoc here, she said. “Ninety per cent of the patients may...

New therapy improves quality of life for cancer

...atients find it hard to get the energy together to perform even the simplest everyday tasks. A new treatment, epoetin alfa, mimics haemoglobin and has just been tested in a group of patients by Cancer Research UK scientists at the University of Sussex. Some of the patients received injections of the drug, ...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...elopment. But it's useful to know that a nurse can perform as well as a doctor in this role....

New ways to help children with trauma

... such as how they function, walk, talk, speak, and perform other daily activities. Dr. Adelson said that younger children's brains don't deal with trauma as well and they do poorly on standard tests than school-age children. Hence, the researchers have developed a new assessment tool for young children, the ...

New remedy for those suffering from Crohn's disease

...r 30s. The disease leaves one too fatigued even to perform daily activities or it causes severe abdominal pain. However, treatments available currently do not help all patients suffering from the disease. Now, Dr. Brian Dieckgraefe, M.D., Ph.D, a gastroenterologist at Washington University in St. Louis, is o...

Second hope for men with erectile dysfunction

...ose men for whom Viagra did work, but did not help perform well, the chances of success may be much higher with the new drugs. And finally, all three drugs share similar side effects(headaches & heartburn) and precautions(relating to cardiac events)....

Little sleep as bad as no sleep

... react,less able to think clearly and struggled to perform simple memory tasks. Theimpaired level of mental ability was similar to those who did not sleep at all.However, participants who actually slept a few hours reported that they feltless tired than those who were deprived of their sleep for a few days.R...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

... knife is to have sperm extracted and then used to perform in vitro fertilization.//But Kolettis and his colleagues note that vasectomy reversal is less expensive than IVF. And by making it possible for couples to conceive naturally, it avoids the increased risk of multiple births that comes with IVF. The f...

Music Makes you Smarter

...ests. The boys had to recall words from a list and perform a visual memory test from an image. //Those with musical training recalled more words from the verbal list and picked up on more words over the course of three memory tests. After 30 minutes, those with training also recalled more words than their no...

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