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Hipbone Replaced in an Aged Woman in India

...," said S.M. Mehta, the doctor who carried out the operation at the Tanda Medical College, 200 km from here. "The surgery lasted 90 minutes and the hipbone was replaced with the help of bipolar technique," he added. Source-IANS PRI...

Ultrasound Technology - Boon or a Bane?

...to make more money. The economics of the entire operation is revealed by Puneet Bedi, a doctor at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, who is a votary of strong social values for the medical profession. He said: "Ultrasound was invented in the 1950s for safe motherhood but it has not only killed millions of foe...

A Young Girl Loses Her Leg Due to Surgeon’s Carelessnes

...ery despite his daughter's repeated pleas that the operation was being carried out in the wrong place. "It was just a confusion," District Collector Arabinda Padhi, who inquired into the incident, said. The girl had polio deformity on both her hand and leg although the problem with the leg was minor, he adde...

Link Between Childbirth and Stress Incontinence Established

...ause that would result in numerous women having an operation they do not need. Rather, they say, the study results should be used to help determine how to prevent these injuries in the first place. The study – appearing in the February issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology – found major defects of the...

Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

...cinoma. Transhiatal esophagectomy, or THE, is an operation in which most of the esophagus is removed without ... by going through the chest, a much more difficult operation for the patient. The researchers sought to determine if THE is a safe procedure for the growing n...

Liposuction, Quick Fixes for the Obese

...breast reduction. Nose jobs were the most common operation for men, with 525 carried out last year, followed by eyelid surgery, liposuction, ear correction and face or neck lifts. The growth in demand is part of an overall beautification frenzy sweeping the globe. In the UK, total cosmetic operations ...

First Keyhole Heart Valve Surgery Scheduled in Britain

...etting ready for the first heart valve replacement operation in Britain using key hole technique. // The operation is scheduled for Tuesday and will be performed by Jan Kovac and a team of cardiologists. The surgery...

Scientists Identity Genetic Risk Factor for Head and Neck Cancer

...detectors scan the DNA for injury. A sort of local operation is then performed to cut out and dispose of the damaged segment and replace it with a new one. In their study, which appeared in Cancer Research, the scientists asked whether a reduced individual ability (non-inherited) to repair DNA damage increa...

New Test Predicts CLL’s Sensitivity to Experimental Drug

...work is under way to make the laboratory profiling operation more automated, looking toward a time when it could be used on a routine basis to assess the vulnerability of patients' cancers to compounds that antagonize BCL-2 or related anti-death proteins. "This is a totally new class of drugs and has the pot...

Scientists Map Key Landmarks in Human Genome

... its original embryonic state, which is a critical operation in cloning. "This study presents the first global view of human nucleosome positioning," said Fisher. Although analyses of this type had been pioneered in simpler organisms such as yeast, those approaches were not feasible when applied to the massi...

AIIMS Creates Record by Completing 100 Four-arm Robotic Surgeries

...his feat," Hemal told IANS over telephone from his operation theatre. He said the new robot helps them to conduct surgeries without any blood loss. "Generally prostate cancers need three to four units of blood but by using this technique we have managed to achieve much precision and success. It has increa...

Royal College Issues Revised Guidelines for Face Transplantation

...aining valid patient consent when the risks of the operation are simply unknown—the "Catch-22" of needing to proceed with research in order properly to establish the risk of an experimental procedure. To address these concerns and provide protections for patients, the report lists recommended standards for ...

Big Brother to the Rescue

...t son Joshua, 14, was able to get a donor. The operation was performed by one of Britain’s most famous children’s hospital; the Great Ormond Street Hospital. The second son Nathan had peripheral blood stem cells donated from his mother while the third son Daniel, 10, underwent bone marrow transplant from...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

...the donor organ stopped. Yet scientists regard the operation as a success. Says Julia Rowland, director of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship, 'If this is a passionate desire for a woman who's had surgical removal of a uterus, I would think this would be something she'd really want...

Are One-Third of Costly Implanted Heart Devices Unnecessary?

...ndidates, as many as one-third could be spared the operation to implant a device, without raising their risk of sudden death. That would mean that Medicare could be spared the additional $90,000 lifetime cost of each device compared to best medical therapy. The study, published in the January issue of the Jou...

Philippoussis' Knee Operation a Success

...port and play as well as ever," Cross said. The operation was the fourth for Philippoussis but the first on his right knee. The two-time Grand Slam finalist suffered the injury during a match this week at the Hopman Cup. Cross said the injury was common among elite sportsmen like such as cricket fast bowl...

A ‘Good Samaritan’ to the Aid of Lepes

...eg injury, she was given artificial hipbones in an operation and decided to retire in 1997. Her first experience of leprosy came in a leper village in Panyu during a 2002 tour organised by the Hong Kong Medical Mobilization Corp, a registered non-profit charitable body. Fu observed that people diagnosed wi...

Orissa Hospital, Surgeon Fined for Wrong Treatment

...tal at Vellore in Tamil Nadu found that during the operation a small hole had developed in the urine bladder due to the carelessness of the surgeon. The complainant stated that she suffered physically, mentally and financially due to the doctor's negligence. A three-member committee of the forum headed by ...

The Best Christmas Gift

...r transplant// from a part of his father’s. The operation was carried out successfully at the Stollery’s Chi...approximately. She attributed the success of the operation to the large number of pediatric liver transplants carried out by the hospital. Western provinces ...

Surgery, the Best Option for Kids With High Blood Pressure

... researchers say, children can survive the arduous operation and go on to have a normal life. "This is a rare condition, but one that can be catastrophic if it's not found and treated appropriately," says lead author James C. Stanley, M.D., a U-M vascular surgeon who has operated on dozens of children with ...

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