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Interoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients

...team combined the expertise of surgeons, radiation medicine specialists (radiation oncologists, physicists and therapists) and nurses to perform its first procedure. It marked the first time the portable intrabeam radiotherapy machine that makes this procedure possible has been used in Canada. The PMH team ha...

Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

... said Alexander V. Ljubimov, Ph.D., a professor of medicine at UCLA and director of Ophthalmology Research Laboratories at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "The idea is to administer this already clinically available protein to premature babies to stabilize the existing vessels in the retina, prevent their loss a...

Intraoperative Radiation Therapy a New Step in Breast Cancer Treatment

...team combined the expertise of surgeons, radiation medicine specialists (radiation oncologists, physicists and therapists) and nurses to perform its first procedure. It marked the first time that the portable intrabeam radiotherapy machine that makes this procedure possible has been used in Canada. The PMH te...

Buckyball Has the Ability to Fight Against Allergy: Research

... These findings advance the up-and-coming field of medicine known as nanoimmunology. The researchers, from Virginia Commonwealth University and Luna Innovations Inc., a private, Roanoke, Va., research company, are the first to demonstrate that buckyballs are able to block allergic response in human cell cult...

More Women Medical Graduates Than Men

...ust the fact that more and more women are entering medicine - all staff should have the right to work-life bal...graduation were general practice, general hospital medicine and surgery. All the issues and points will be put forward at the BMA annual conference, which is s...

Sex Offender Honored Twice by Texan Lawmakers

...rs for the duty. Tallant used to practice family medicine in the San Marcos area, where the conviction occur...she said. Tallant is now remarried. He practices medicine part time on a fill-in basis and enjoys volunteer work, including the Capitol duty, Lockhart said. ...

BMA Calls for Flexible Working as Number of Women Doctors Swell

...ust the fact that more and more women are entering medicine - all staff should have the right to work-life bal...%) say that on graduation their desire to practise medicine is either lukewarm or weak. Fewer than a fifth (16%) are confident that they will automatically get ...

Lightning Strikes Deadliest in Summer

..., says Dr. Mary Ann Cooper, professor of emergency medicine and director of the lightning injury research program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Most people seriously underestimate the risk of being struck by lightning and do not know when or where to take shelter. "Decisions about lightning safe...

New Research to Make Science and Technology Work for the Poor

...ent Yahya Jammeh's claims to cure AIDS with herbal medicine which risks derailing anti-retroviral treatments; and local opposition to large dam building and the GM crop Bt cotton in India. Dr Ian Gibson MP, chairing the STEPS Centre launch, said: Science makes a massive contribution to our modern world. If ...

More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...abetes, said Dr. Orchard, who also is professor of medicine and pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine....

U.S. Preventive Medicine(R) Encourages the International Community to Embrace Prevention

...of healthcare. They currently have nine preventive medicine centers that focus on widening immunization, healt...lems through prevention. "We believe preventive medicine will contribute to solving the world's healthcare challenges," said Fey. "The UAE is obviously a lea...

Sioux Herb Confirmed as Shield Against Colds

...ve to North America and feature in the traditional medicine of the Sioux and other Plains Indians as remedies for infection, snakebites and rabies. Other names for the plant are black sampson, Kansas snakeroot and purple coneflower. Coleman's team said they had counted more than 800 products containing echi...

Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care

...onthly, evidence-based meeting in the UC emergency medicine department for input from faculty, residents and nurses. Since the first one was developed, guidelines for more than 20 other conditions, such as pneumonia, ischemic stroke, diabetes and gallbladder disease, have been added. Nearly 40 instructional...

The Doctor Parents of a 15 Year Old surgeon Arrested

...ncil Act, 1956, (provisions relating to practising medicine without being enrolled in the State Medical Register). The case came to light last month when Dr. Murugesan, who runs a surgical clinic at Manapparai in Tiruchi district in central tamil nadu, proudly presented the video footage of the surgery per...

Travelers Beware: Is Your Medicine Really What the Doctor Ordered?

...ibed. Taking these precautions prior to purchasing medicine can prevent serious health injuries....

Personal Disclosure by Physician may Harm Patients

...e article and a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine ...-author of the article and a clinical professor of medicine and family medicine at the School of Medicine and Dentistry. Instead we found these disclosures to b...

Patients With Alcohol Problem Need Mechanical Ventilation

...nts, said Marjolein de Wit, assistant professor of medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University, and corresponding author for the study. She added that the majority of medical patients with a critical illness have multiple comorbidities such as diabetes, renal failure, heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver,...

Oral Treatment as Effective as Injections in Treating Kids With Pneumonia

...ssary and could be replaced with oral doses of the medicine in the majority of cases. As a part of the study the researchers looked over 243 children, enrolled over a 21-month period at eight UK hospitals. Half the kids were randomly assigned to receive a week of oral antibiotic treatment and half to recei...

Children With Chronic Illness Die in Hospitals

...l of the American Medical Association. Advances in medicine and technology are extending survival, as well as allowing medically fragile children to live at home. In addition, shifts in attitudes about palliative and end-of-life care may also be affecting both how these children live and whether they may d...

Babys Poop is of Interest for Researchers

...hese patterns, said Relman, associate professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology. Six of the 14 babies had some course of antimicrobial medicine during their first year. Only one of the babies had an extremely dramatic change in the microbial co...

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