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Old Men Do Not Benefit From Screening of Prostate Cancer

...Treatment Center, concludes, "Aggressive treatment minimally reduced the risk of dying from prostate cancer; disease specific survival, however, was relatively high in both groups because most deaths were from other causes. However, by 24 months following diagnosis, men who received aggressive treatment had su...

Shapelier Knee Replacements for Women

...successful surgical techniques, including Zimmer's minimally invasive approaches. Rosenberg and other surgeons ... implant. The female implant can be placed using minimally invasive techniques which typically offer smaller scars, shorter hospitalization and quicker rehabil...

Gastric Bypass And Laparoscopic Reflux Surgery Gaining Popularity

...University in Ontario and lead study author. ‘This minimally invasive surgical procedure may allow some patients to manage GERD symptoms and forgo a long-term drug regimen.’ Source: Eurealert...

Lung Disease More Severe In Women Than Men

...es, so the disease has seemed poorly treatable and minimally reversible. But by doing a comprehensive assessment, looking at a patient's nutritional status, exercise capacity and symptoms, it becomes more possible to treat COPD because such impairment is amenable to intervention." br>For example, she sai...

Efforts To Replace Reading Glasses Are In View

...re to cut, he adds. ‘There are no noninvasive or minimally invasive procedures for presbyopia,’ said O'Donnell, 55, who explained that he started research on presbyopia when he began to notice his own near-sight failing. He held up his reading glasses: ‘I got sick of wearing these things.’ The U-M tool use...

Research Finds, Risk Of Pulmonary Disease Increases With Wrinkled Smokers

...inkling than it was in those whose faces were only minimally lined. And those with lined faces were five times more likely to have COPD than those without, after taking account of age and the number of years as a smoker. Facial wrinkling was also associate with triple the risk of more severe emphysema. Sou...

Antibacterial Products Ensure Food Safety and Health

...rt. However, consumers’ increased preference for minimally processed foods may be affecting the survival of resistant bacteria. ‘The current demand for minimally processed foods and preservative-free foods may increase the occurrence of resistant pathogens,’ say...

Blood Flow to Kidneys Better Restored by Less Invasive Procedures

...d in the Journal of Vascular Surgery reported that minimally invasive procedures such as stenting and angioplas...ow to the kidneys. ‘Three to six weeks after the minimally invasive procedure, kidney function was roughly equal to what is typically achieved with major surge...

Brain Surgery Without the Surgery?

...t’s brain surgery without the surgery, also called minimally invasive, or endovascular treatment. And according...-M who performs both open-cranial microsurgery and minimally invasive endovascular procedures. “An aneurysm is a ballooning, a little weak spot like one on a t...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

...ttle time before going back to work, thanks to the minimally invasive procedure. 'I went home (from the hospi... performed at Cedars-Sinai use the video-assisted, minimally invasive procedure, says McKenna, who is believed to have the largest experience in the world with t...

Carotid Stenting Could Avert Depression In Stenosis

...e, but carotid stenting has emerged as an accepted minimally invasive alternative to restore blood flow to the ...artery and restoring blood flow to the brain via a minimally invasive technique under local anesthesia is associated with significant reduction in depressive sym...

New Procedure Helps Stop Urinary Incontinence

...sed by activities—with a strip of mesh tape. The minimally invasive procedure typically takes just 30 to 45 minutes, and can be performed with regional or general anesthesia. “The surgery is really well tolerated,” says Jason Brown, M.D., an obstetrician/gynecologist on the medical staff at Baylor Waxahachie...

World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

... surgery and teach two lectures on the specialized minimally invasive procedure. Laparoscopic (minimally inva...se who cannot tolerate the standard operation. The minimally invasive laparoscopic approach is most often used to remove liver tumors and treat other liver disea...

Kyphoplasty Yields Good Long-Term Improvement for Spinal Fractures

...uality of life. Kyphoplasty is a relatively new, minimally invasive treatment for this type of spinal fracture. Although results have been generally encouraging, most studies so far have included only short-term results. The new results "provide good evidence that balloon kyphoplasty provides both rapid an...

Fight Back Against Inherited Sudden-Death Heart Condition

...ar Center for more aggressive treatment. After a minimally invasive procedure that used an injection of alcoh...d the country offer procedures to reduce it. The minimally invasive option, which U-M’s Mauro Moscucci, M.D., performed on Catherine Gray, is called alcohol se...

Limb amputations among Diabetics on a high

...veloped by Spectranetics Corp. (NASDAQ: SPNC), the minimally invasive CLiRpath procedure often enables patients to leave the hospital the day after the treatment. CLiRpath has been the subject of rigorous clinical trials, with limb salvage observed in 95 percent of patients surviving to six months(1). "Among...

Bladder Cancer Has Worse Outcomes In Blacks

...s found fewer black patients had been treated with minimally invasive surgery and more underwent open surgery to remove their bladder. Black patients were also more likely to receive radiation therapy along with surgery. In addition, the researchers found black patients tended to have more aggressive tumors. ...

A New Approach to Heart Bypass Surgery Provides Patients with 'One-stop Shopping'

...e cath lab and then be transported to the OR for a minimally invasive valve surgery. It required procedures in ...ge-guided surgery, but also the ability to provide minimally invasive cardiac surgery combined with percutaneous coronary interventions.” David Zhao, M.D., ass...

Novel Technique Would Prevent Re-Clogged Arteries

...the American Heart Association. Angioplasty is a minimally invasive procedure, during which a tiny deflated balloon is inserted into clogged arteries and inflated to open blockages. In many cases, a stent – originally mounted on the balloon – is then positioned inside the artery, against the arterial wall. B...

Drugs May Help Urinary Disease

...n and 7 percent of women. Usually it is treated by minimally invasive surgery, but research suggests that medicines might help. Calcium-channel blockers and alpha blockers are used commonly for management of high blood pressure and enlarged prostates. In this study, published in the Sept. 30 issue of the Lan...

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