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First Ultrasound Thrombolysis in U.S. Performed at Emory University Hospital

Physicians at Emory University Hospital recently performed for the first time in the United States a procedur...ing from deep vein thrombosis. The procedure was performed by Abbas Chamsuddin, MD, associate professor of interventional radiology in the Emory University Sch...

Pregnant Irish Teenager Wins the Right to Abort

...en in to the constitution. Abortions can only be performed if a mother's life is at risk, which includes the threat of suicide. The law does not permit abortion on grounds of foetal abnormality. The Irish Republic has a constitutional ban on abortion, but in 1992 made it legal to receive information about ...

Study Shows Continued Success for New HPV Vaccine Against Virus

...Ault. "There are about 50 to 60 million pap smears performed each year in the US, and about seven percent are abnormal. We spend about 3 billion dollars each year to find and treat these pre-cancerous stages caused by some type of HPV." Researchers believe the vaccine will be effective in lowering a girl's l...

Novel Catheter Technique Successfully Patches Holes in the Heart

... the heart. Implantation of the VSD occluder was performed by Donald J. Hagler, M.D., FSCAI, a professor of pediatrics in the Divisions of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases at the Mayo Clinic. The procedure was successful in all patients, without complications. One patient died 5 days later of...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...ctic adjustment, is the main therapeutic procedure performed by doctors of chiropractic. The purpose of manipulation is to restore joint mobility by manually applying a controlled force into joints that have become hypomobile. Chiropractors practice a hands-on, drug-free approach to health care that include...

Risk of Diabetes is Reduced by Intake of Grain Fiber and Magnesium

...y developed diabetes. In addition, the researchers performed a meta-analysis of previously published work related to intake of fiber or magnesium and risk of diabetes. During the follow-up period, 844 individuals in the study developed type 2 diabetes. Those who consumed more fiber through cereal, bread and ...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...free or discounted cosmetic surgery. The doctors performed many of the surgeries on Saturdays and Sundays. Of...rming 180 procedures on 178 patients. He primarily performed thoracic sympathectomies, also known as sweaty palms surgeries, which is a highly unusual and danger...

NIH Study Normal Brain Development in Children Across US

...isual puzzles. Children from low income families performed somewhat more poorly on IQ and achievement tests a...he healthy low income children who did participate performed above published norms for their demographic. This suggests that in previous studies, general health ...

Adolescents Brains Fully Develop Between 10-12 Years

...s less rampant than in some previous studies. Boys performed better on perceptual analysis, and girls performed better on processing speed and motor dexterity. Girls also showed a slight advantage on verbal learn...

Coenzyme Q10 Does Not Improve Parkinsons Disease Symptoms

...d again after the washout period. Blood tests were performed at the beginning of the study, after three months of treatment and after the washout period. A total of 106 patients completed the full three months of the study55 in the CoQ10 group and 51 in the placebo group. The compound was well tolerated over...

DNA-damage Test Could Aid Drug Development

...t could allow hundreds or thousands of tests to be performed from the bone marrow of a single mouse, and potentially from human bone marrow. Joe Shuga, the graduate student in chemical engineering who developed the assay, is in the unusual position of being a graduate student in three labs, those of Professo...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...of the most complicated nasal reconstructions ever performed at Johns Hopkins - facial plastic and reconstructive surgeons have pieced together more than a dozen bits of bone, cartilage, skin, arteries and veins to rebuild Fletchers nose. All materials were taken from spare or renewable parts of his own body. ...

Ways to Stop Organ Damage When Blood Flow Is Cut Off

...e immune system; only some are harmful. "We have performed tests without antibodies and the damage doesn't occur," Fleming said. "We want to figure out which B cells are making the harmful antibodies and stop them." Stopping them includes delivering other therapeutic molecules that prevent complement protein...

Avandia Could Increase Risk of Heart Attack, New Study

...dvair for asthma and Avandia for type 2 diabetes - performed well. Total sales of Advair, or Seretide as it is known in Europe, were up 11% to 835m, and sales of Avandia grew 19% to 414m. It strongly repudiates the study, but a previous study by the GSK itself had showed about a 30% increase in heart risk to...

Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

...ital.Between 3,000 and 5,000 of the operations are performed annually, an increase from 1,500 in the early 1990s, estimates Dr. Robert Gumnit of the University of Minnesota, who heads the National Association of Epilepsy Centers. However, a sizeable proportion more, 100,000 to 150,000 epilepsy sufferers, are...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect Of Smallpox Vaccination Recovering

...confined to his room and witnessed every procedure performed on her child. The military brought the father back from Iraq after the boy became ill. The procedures for smallpox vaccination were hammered out through long discussion to prevent those who were particularly susceptible to the side effects from re...

Gel Made of Patients Own Platelets may Speed Up Wound Healing

...hs, and additional biopsies (removal of skin) were performed on each leg. During the six-month follow-up, none of the participants developed infections and no serious adverse events were reported. "Over a 42-day period, the autologous platelet geltreated sites had statistically increased wound closure compar...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

... that are abnormal," Pavey said. "The procedure is performed on patients as an outpatient procedure under conscious sedation, much as during a colonoscopy. The patients find that they have little or no discomfort following the procedure." Pavey said that if radiofrequency ablation is proven effective in larg...

Chemotherapy Drug Shrinks Brain Tumors

... more than 25 percent. Genetic testing was also performed in 86 of the participants. In 42 percent of the participants, the gene 1p/19q was missing. Those missing the gene were more likely to respond well to the drug. They also had more months without the tumor developing than those with the gene and were l...

Vegetarian Diet Could Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

...n=74). Multivariate analysis of 7,641 patients was performed by adjusting for age, gender, body mass index and economic status. Vegetarianism was considerably connected with patients over 65 years, male gender, body mass index (BMI) of less than 20 Kg/m2 and economic deprivation. Colorectal cancer was positi...

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