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Shockwave Lithotripsy is Effective for Pediatric Urolithiasis

... in 20.7% of the patients. All the procedures were performed using the Siemens Lithostar and the stone clearance was assessed 3 months after shockwave lithotripsy. Complications and the need for subsequent treatment and ancillary procedures were noted. The impacts of stone size and location as well as the age ...

Brain Structure Changes Years Before Memory Loss Begins

... which leads to Alzheimer's disease. Researchers performed brain scans and cognitive tests on 136 people over the age of 65 who were considered cognitively normal at the beginning of the five-year study. Participants were then followed annually with neurologic examination and extensive mental status testing....

To Understand the Big Picture, Give It Time -- and Sleep

...e tested soon after their initial learning period, performed the worst," says Walker. "While they were able to learn and recall the component pieces [for example, Shape A is greater than Shape B, Shape B is greater than Shape C] they could not discern the hierarchical relationships between the pieces [Shape A ...

One-fifth of Obese Women Undergo Caesarean Due to Uterus Failure

...weight women and studied them in the lab they also performed poorly and contracted less well than matched samples from normal weight women". The research team found that less calcium was able to enter the uterine cells of the obese women to support uterus muscles in contracting during labor. Professor Wra...

Aborted Babies Survive, a British Study Says

...however, looked at the outcomes of 3,189 abortions performed between 1995 and 2004 because the baby had a disability of some kind. It showed that 102 - or around one in 30 - were born alive. But abortion experts said such incidents were extremely rare. Abortion is allowed in Britain up to the 24th week of p...

No-scalpel Vasectomies by Skilled Surgeons may Speed Recovery

... as the vas is cut or tied, has traditionally been performed by making an incision in the skin of the scrotum. ...deo and one supervised procedure. Only one surgeon performed more than 10 no-scalpel vasectomies in the trial. The smaller study showed no difference in posto...

Resistance Already Emerging in First Months of Treatment Despite Viral Load Decline

...s of antiretroviral therapy. Plasma sampling was performed before and during treatment, as was HIV-1 quantification and genotypic analysis. Three key resistance mutations were tracked, the L90M (protease) and K103N and M184V (reverse transcriptase), using a PCR assay designed to detect the three specific mut...

Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning and Memory

... of Biological Sciences Russell Schwartz, was also performed on our distant mammalian relative, the mouse. The computer program found hundreds of instances of genes that bind with either CREB or zif268 — and sometimes both — in human and mouse genomes. A huge proportion of these genes had never been prev...

Study Finds the Effect of Alcohol and Aspirin in TBI Patients

... with TBI. Researchers at Elmhurst Hospital Center performed a one-year observational study on 150 patients treated at this Level 1 Trauma Center. Aspirin thins the blood, and reduces the risk of clots forming in key blood vessels, yet can cause bleeding problems in people with certain conditions Theoretical...

UCSF Brain Tumor Vaccine Trial Shows Promising Results

...Once the chemotherapy was out of her system, Parsa performed surgery, just four days before Christmas. He removed all but a very small amount of tumor that was near an area that could affect her speech. The removed tissue was sent to Antigenics, the Massachusetts biotech company that produces the vaccine from ...

MS Drug Helps Reduce Vision Loss

...American Academy of Neurology. The analyses were performed on data from the AFFIRM and SENTINEL studies, which involved 2,138 men and women with relapsing multiple sclerosis from clinics in Europe, North American, Australia, and New Zealand. More than half of the people received the drug natalizumab every fo...

Obesity may Be Linked to Middle Ear Effusions in Children

...d compared their treatment paths. The analysis was performed defining obesity by BMI and by triglyceride and total cholesterol levels, although standards for obesity using blood cholesterol levels have not been definitively established. "For both triglycerides and total cholesterol, we defined obesity as value...

Software System to Improve the Function of Retinal Implants

...ly, tests of the learning dialog process are being performed with normally sighted volunteers. The camera images are translated by the Retina Encoder and subsequently forwarded to a kind of "virtual central visual system." This simulation mimics the brain function for the interpretation of the converted camera...

Severe Complications of Circumcision: An Analysis of 48 Cases

...the mean age of 14 years. These circumcisions were performed at various centers or during religious ceremonies ...a in 3 (6%). Lysis of adhesions and revisions were performed in all cases of preputio-glandular fusion. The patients with meatal stenosis underwent meatotomies. ...

New Procedure Paves Way for Eunuchs to Choose a Gender and Conceive

... curable," he said. "On Friday, for instance, we performed a female genitoplasty and constructed a vagina in a six-year-old patient. The operation lasted over nine hours." He said AIIMS has been treating patients from across the country, and even some from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. "Though th...

Hip Resurfacing Fever Catches on in US

...than 400,000 total or partial hip replacements are performed each year, a number growing as the population ages. Doctors differ on what age is the cutoff for resurfacing, somewhere between 60 and 65, largely dependent on the patient's bone strength. Nor do all insurers cover it. The implant costs about 20 pe...

Sleep Disorder Linked to Heart Failure Patient Deaths

...he Mount Sinai Hospital and the sleep studies were performed in sleep laboratories at Toronto General Hospital and the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute. In order to clearly determine the effect of sleep apnea, the characteristics of all the heart failure patients in the two groups were generally the same, incl...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

... According to Frieden, even 1,000 circumcisions performed in certain populations could curb the spread of HIV in the city (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 4/5). Bloomberg at a news conference said that he has not discussed the campaign with Frieden or HHC Chair Alan Aviles. Bloomberg also expressed support...

Many Women Undertreated for Ovarian Cancer

... percent of the treating surgeons in another state performed an average one ovarian cancer case per year. Dr...als, while a third were treated at a hospital that performed fewer than 10 ovarian cancer surgeries per year. Analysis of the surgeon's attributes showed that al...

MRI Robotic Biopsies Simplified by PneuStep

...psies on organs such as the prostate are currently performed blind because the tumors are typically invisible to the imaging tools commonly used," says Dan Stoianovici, Ph.D., an associate professor of urology at Johns Hopkins and director of the robotics lab. "Our new MRI-safe motor and robot can target the t...

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