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Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia

...B) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic e...sthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that pat...

Blood Cells Capable of Regenerating Liver

...tocytes (liver cells), and re-inject then into the patient to give them enough functioning liver mass to get them through the acute process," Theise said....

Laboratory Testing Can Identify Risk of Pre-Term Labor and Delivery

...clinical scoring system, risk classification, and patient presentation; The marker that can identify at-risk...epeat follow-ups, with a repeat of the test if the patient becomes symptomatic....

New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered

...therapy are paired and infused into a patient, the patient receives an injection of a special radioactive molecule. The reporter genes produce a protein that traps the radioactive molecules, and the radioactivity causes the regions of the body in which the reporter gene is present to glow "hot" during a posi...

Vitamin B12 can help in detecting cancers

...locate hard to find tumors. During the processes a patient is injected with radioactive vitamin B12. After th... takes pictures of the body. Dr. Collins treated a patient with breast cancer and he says that, "The cancer stands out as a bright spot in the breast. It's ver...

Levothyroxine Thyroid Hormone Replacement, Approved for Hypothyroidism

...ment dose of levothryoxine for an individual adult patient is determined, blood tests are usually done less frequently; e.g., every six to twelve months. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include poor growth in children and, in those born with this disorder, impaired intellectual development if this disorder is n...

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...y. This free form of PSA is key to identifying the patient who requires a biopsy. Jean deKernion-Urologist, at the UCLA School of Medicine says, "A lot of people have a high PSA and don't have cancer. The free PSA helps you discern those people from the people who do have cancer. Free" PSA levels are lowe...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...bout a third of medication errors that result in a patient being harmed are initiated or perpetuated by healthcare workers who aren't being told of their involvement in those mishaps. This opens up a Pandora’s box on medical ethics and the matter assumes monstrous proportions if the unwitting error happens t...

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

... the betterment of the patient. But as long as the patient is benefited who’s complaining? "Prince Charles has been at the forefront of the campaign for integrated medicine. It will be good news if more money is now forthcoming," a spokesman for Charles was quoted as saying...

Brain death – How to cope with it

...f. However by witnessing tests to confirm that the patient is actually brain dead, the family and friends can be convinced about the futility of prolonging the life support, say doctors. Two-thirds of consultants and nurses who had previous experience of relatives being present during testing felt that the ...

Crowning glory of 2000!!! Cracking of the genetic code is top of tops

...Genetic mapping will also help doctors evolve more patient specific therapies. Use of gene therapy to prevent restenosis following bypass surgery and as a treatment option for atrial stenosis is another major breakthrough of 2000.Other topics of interest are the use of stem cells to treat myocardial tissue ...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

...otzen performed the surgery, Dr. Chow prepared the patient but was not present during the surgery. A few years ago, the mother of Indian film star Shridevi was operated upon the wrong side of the brain in the United States of America and the incident created a furore in medical circles both in India and the...

Doctors at risk- the ugly side of the noble profession

...ities and crisis management. If the doctor and the patient with his folks can talk it out and iron out the differences, such ugly incidents can be prevented from happening in future.In India, in the city of Lucknow, doctors went on a days strike on the issue of being harassed by disgruntled relatives of pati...

Oracle Corp. to help build world's first "Digital Hospital"

...ccording to a release on Monday, issued by the out patient surgical rehabilitation chain. The digital hospita...and hopefully completed by 2003. From the moment a patient registers at the hospital, every blood test and MRI will be recorded in a central patient record, an...

New antibiotic already developing resistance

...octors advice a sensitivity test before starting a patient on linezolid....

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

... are too small to be picked up by a mammogram, the patient may be unaware that she is a potential candidate for breast cancer. But to offset this problem, scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore headed by Dr. Saraswathi Sukumar, have devised a new method of detecting early st...

Avoid sudden death by quick cooling

...normal beating, the lesser the chances are for the patient to survive. In laboratory studies, Becker has demo...ording to the calculations of these doctors then a patient can be brought to the emergency room with sudden cardiac arrest and then his heart can be cooled and...

Patients often assume wrongly that they are allergic to penicillin

...o 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 80% to 90% of patients who reported they were alle...

ATG useful in transplant patients as substitute for steroids

...y are associated with adverse side effects. When a patient receives an organ transplant, the body's white blood cells often try to reject the new organ .It is here that ATG steps in. The rabbit ATG works to prevent this from happening without the problems caused by steroids. Unlike traditional long-term ste...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...ives heard her loud cries. They were told that the patient was mentally upset and that she had been put on sedatives. But around 1130 hrs the next day, Chandrakala died. The post mortem revealed that death had occurred due to the aftershock of spinal anesthesia. The complainants alleged that the doctors had...

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