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Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

...veoli - are progressively destroyed,// leaving the patient so short of breath that they cannot do everyday activities like climbing stairs or carrying their shopping. In the mid-1990s, studies seemed to suggest that lung reduction surgery was beneficial for people with emphysema. It appeared to leave them wi...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

The personality of a patient can have a major impact on how susceptible they are to long-term problems from rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research. The published study explains doctors need to pay attention to factors// not related to the disease when they screen at-ris...

Specialist surgeon not imperative in melanoma

...han general surgeons. This study tells us that a patient with melanoma should see the surgeon with the shortest waiting list. Speed of treatment is more important than surgical background. This is probably a reflection of the relatively simple nature of melanoma surgery compared to breast surgery....

Misinterpretation living wills

...id they would not do CPR or insert a tube into any patient who had made a living will - whether they wanted i...up said they would do this - even if they knew the patient was bound not to recover. Clearly there is a serious mismatch between what patients want in the ca...

Decision making made easier

... Doctors in the US have been testing a new aid to patient decision-making - an interactive video disc. This ...octors and played an important part in helping the patient to come to a decision they were happy with. The new technology opens the door to better-informed p...

Tumour marker for melanoma found

...s to target and refine therapies to the individual patient with melanoma, the researchers say....

Bridge to liver transplant looks encouraging

...evice that filters toxins from the blood can buy a patient time while waiting for a liver transplant. Liver failure is a relatively common problem and most often the only cure is a transplant.// But donated livers are in short supply and many patients die while waiting for one. Research on an artificial live...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

...ired an incision of about 12cms to be made and the patient took a longer time to recover. Endoscopic Spinal ...s less tissue damage and lesser blood loss and the patient can be discharged within two days of the procedure. This method, the Micro Endoscopic Discectomy Met...

Prolonged survival not assured by psychological therapies for cancer patients

...nts might affect the quality of life of the cancer patient in a positive way....

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

... have the information to tailor one's care to this patient population....

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...e on mental challenges and to maintain a pleasant, patient demeanor when a hungry stomach signals a fall in blood glucose levels following an overnight fast or the consumption of only a sweet food or coffee or both. The brain is forced to depend on stored fat for functioning when glucose supply runs low as a...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

... monitor bacteria levels, and logged the number of patient infections. During the next six months of the study, the ionisers were switched on and it was found that the infections due to acinetobacter reduced dramatically. Lead researcher Clive Beggs believed that the negative ions produced by the ioniser ma...

Autopsy reports could be valuable and informative

...ut of this, in about 4 to 8 per cent of cases, the patient might have been harmed by the misdiagnosis. The r...d autopsy findings which could be as varied as the patient having presented with atypical symptoms of a disease, or due to limited information from lab results...

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

...blood is replaced with healthy blood. However, the patient who underwent the new treatment did not respond to the standard treatment and was subjected to immune suppression with two drugs - rituximab and cyclophosphamide. Researchers said that the new treatment resulted in a complete recovery, raising hopes ...

New way to control hospital infection

...ately between a third to a half of the days that a patient has a catheter and add to this, nearly 40 percent ...ware their patients have catheters. He said that a patient has a 5 per cent chance of developing a urinary tract infection, for every additional day a catheter...

Care with a touch!

...s found that there was significant improvements in patient perceptions and comfort levels when touch or massa...ch of salt, as there were other aspects, like high patient withdrawal(27 dropouts from the initial target of 88) and unhappiness of patients in being assigned ...

Cancers & Reconstruction

...s skull and face. Dr. Constatino added that if the patient was not treated by such a team, they usually paid for it with their appearance, their function, recurrence of the tumor, or their very lives. Carrozza, who was recently treated by such a team of specialists has only a scar as a visible sign of surge...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...ean Respiratory Journal, the case of a 32-year-old patient developing a life-threatening blood clot because h...e that rendered him unconscious. Doctors saved the patient by administering blood-thinning drugs. Dr. Beasley said that this case was an interesting one as it ...

More information sought by patients on medical errors

...tion, and also that their admission might harm the patient or decrease their trust. Researchers suggested that medical institutions should strive to create a blame-free culture, which will help the doctors to give more information to patients and put patients at ease and restore doctor-patient trust....

Protein in diabetic neuropathy treatment

...he deterioration of nerves in the body. A diabetic patient with neuropathy has a 15 percent chance of undergoing one or more amputations. It has been found that more than half of all patients with diabetes will develop// neuropathy. A study by researchers at the University of California at San Diego shows t...

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