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A New Initiative To Fight Childhood Obesity

...e struggled with my weight all my life. 'After my bypass surgery last year, I wanted to develop a programme for young people so they know about the dangers of eating poorly and living an unhealthy lifestyle and also so they know that there are options available to eat right and exercise. Nickelodeon has be...

Measuring disseminated cancer cells in bone marrow - valuable tool for detecting early breast cancer metastasis

...disease metastasis. Breast tumor cells frequently bypass the lymph nodes and disseminate directly through the blood to distant organs. This Hematogenous dissemination of cancer cells has been shown to be an early event in tumor progression. Analysis of data from 9 studies involving 4,703 patients with stag...

Researchers Begin Study To Find Out If Angioplasty Can Be Safely Done In Smaller Hospitals

...hat angioplasty patients will need emergency heart bypass surgery is less than 1 to 2 in every 1,000 cases. In the Hopkins-led study, conducted by the Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team, or C-PORT, participating patients who require angioplasty will be randomly assigned to have angioplasty at e...

Cardiac bypass seems to be favoring men more than women

...gery, commonly known as coronary bypass. Coronary bypass surgery is a way to treat blocked heart arteries b... risk of dying during or immediately after a heart bypass than men, according to a recent study that analyzed the treatment outcomes in either sex. Cardiolog...

Aspirin Benefits Cardiac Disease Patients, Even Before Surgery

... 1,636 patients who had first-time coronary artery bypass surgery at Mayo Clinic in 2000, 2001 and 2002. Patients were divided into two groups: those who had taken aspirin within the five days before surgery (1,316 patients), and those who had not (320). Characteristics of the two groups were similar, exc...

Surgeons Perform Robotic Gastric Bypass Surgery

... a binocular camera to perform laproscopic gastric bypass surgery successfully. Their research findings are ...e of Archives of Surgery. The laproscopic gastric bypass surgery (a Roux-en-Y procedure) is often considered the most challenging minimally invasive procedur...

Stem Cells Could Replace Electronic Pacemakers

...chers say a pacemaker created by // stem cells may bypass this problem. Animal studies have shown that genetically engineered heart cells from human embryonic stem cells could lead to a biological form of pacemaker, according to a new study. Researchers injected clusters of human beating heart cells (deri...

Angioplasty plus stenting better than thrombolysis for elderly patients with AMI

...t primary angioplasty, except for one referred for bypass graft surgery. Baseline characteristics of the two groups of patients, as well as transport times to treatment centers, were similar. None of the patients had contraindications for thrombolytic therapy.During their hospitalizations, patients receivi...

Antibiotic, Gene Therapy Help Treat Angina

...us cases, rerouting the blood vessels perhaps with bypass surgery. New treatments, however, are under devel...s and whose anatomy does not permit angioplasty or bypass surgery. Ultimately, we would hope to use similar techniques to prevent heart attacks and stroke."...

Revolution in surgery

...many succeeded in turning a vein into an artery to bypass a blockage in the heart of a 53-year-old patient. ...things you can do in medicine is a coronary artery bypass surgery. "Our ultimate goal is to replace traditional coronary artery bypass with a procedure that d...

Bypassing open heart bypass surgery...

...disease promises to reduce the need for open heart bypass surgery. Medical research has come up with a drug-...to do all kinds of complex cases, earlier left for bypass surgery,'' he said, while describing the development as ``thrilling''. This would mean that patient...

Expandable metal stents used in digestive cancers

... Expandable metal stents have also been used to bypass blockages in the bile ducts, thereby sparing the patient more invasive procedures and long periods of hospitalization, says Dr. Baron in his report published in the May 31st issue of the The New England Journal of Medicine....

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...igt, also lost 50 kg after she underwent a gastric bypass in the US, an operation that reduces the stomach t... can hold 30 to 60 ml. The procedure also places a bypass around the middle portion of the small intestine to decrease the amount of calories absorbed. The ...

Amputation may depend on availability of vascular surgeons

...tions may often improve and amputations avoided by bypass surgery that improves blood circulation of the lim... there happens almost 1% increase in the number of bypass surgeries performed and 1.6% reduction of number of amputation cases. The research also reports that...

Gastric bypass surgery reduces risk of heart disease

Gastric bypass surgery that is often done as a measure for weight...procedures to control morbid obesity is by gastric bypass surgery that reduces the size of the stomach and allows the food to pass to the small intestine much...

Grafting arteries to restore blood flow is best for survival

...o increase blood flow to the heart// than coronary bypass surgery. The procedure is said to increase 5 years of patients’ life than the coronary bypass surgery. Surgeons from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, US, have found that patients who had blockages ...

Lower risk of cardiovascular disease from tight glucose control

... and coronary heart disease that requires coronary bypass surgeries than those who were under conventional treatment methods. Reference: National Institutes of Health (NIH), press release, June 2005...

Twisted bypass grafts work better

... researchers have shown that twisting the graft to bypass a blockage in the blood// vessels may work better and last longer. In using a graft to bypass blockages, scientists often use plastic prosthetic tubes. Similar tubes are also used when patients ...

Early test to detect kidney failure

...nal injury after the patient had a cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. Of the 71 children surveyed who had unde...e amount of NGAL in the urine at 2 hours after the bypass surgery was the earliest predictor of acute renal failure. Usually the predictor of acute renal fa...

Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases

...ollowed from heart attack, angioplasty, or cardiac bypass surgery. The current study, which comes out in the New England Journal of Medicine, had shown that there is no significant benefit arising out of treating C. pneumoniae bacteria with antibiotics in order to avoid a cardiac arrest. This was true for ...

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