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Women Prefer Office Procedure during treatment of Early Pregnancy

...ping) and general anesthesia are still common when performing this procedure in the operating room - despite evidence associating them with higher complication rates than suction removal without general anesthesia, says Dalton, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the U-M Medical School. The st...

Study Finds No Benefits On Self Monitoring Blood Glucose levels

...ained that around 70% of the patients had reported performing self-monitoring of blood glucose when entering the study, with an average of four tests per week. It is widely accepted that the general lines of blood glucose monitoring includes shorter diabetes duration; attending diabetes education sessions or di...

World’s First Pediatric Laparoscopic Liver Surger

...the University of Cincinnati (UC) is credited with performing the first pediatric laparoscopic liver// surgery. ...ery that removes tumors in the liver without first performing an incision. The operation was done on a 2-year-old boy with liver cancer at La Raza Pediatric Medic...

Scientist Study New Treatment Modality for Psychiatric Disorders Using Mice

...the cereal, such as the bowl's smell. ‘Like people performing a series of similar tasks over and over and then having to change their focus to a new problem, the mice continued to look for the bowl with the same outer texture to find the cereal,’ Garner said. ‘The more times they had used the bowl texture as a ...

Medical Center Recognized for Excellence in Bariatric Surgery

...l by the ASBS,” said Herron. Dr. Herron has been performing laparoscopic bariatric surgery since joining the Mount Sinai faculty in 1999. Since that time he has performed over 700 laparoscopic bariatric procedures. Dr. Herron also serves as Director of the Laparoscopic Surgery Fellowship training program at M...

Blinding-Disease Surgery Is Done Safely in Villages, by Nonphysicians

...assistants are as effective as ophthalmologists in performing vision-preserving surgery for a blinding disease c... Three of the studies compared different ways of performing surgery to correct the inward rotation of the eyelids and prevent the eyelashes from rubbing against...

Protective Clothing of Health Workers Insufficent Against Contamination

...ortant consideration, as workers must change after performing specific procedures on patients. The studied pro...trol and Prevention to protect health-care workers performing high-risk procedures in patients affected by diseases, such as SARS, that are transmitted via aeroso...

AIIMS Acquires Four-Armed Robot to Assist in Surgeries

... freedom of movement and ergonomic environment for performing surgery. The robotic radical prostatectomy operation will help minimise complications following the operation, with patients having shorter hospital stay and a better quality of life, he said. AIIMS is organising a two-day international live operat...

Google-Like Model Used To Diagnose Suspicious Breast Masses Quickly

...ers to maintain their high level of accuracy while performing faster analysis. Such speed and efficiency will be important as such image databases rapidly grow larger and more complex. Knowledge-based computer-assisted detection (CAD) systems compare mammogram images to those of known cases of breast cancer i...

Metallic and Glass Objects Retreived from Women's Stomach

...overnment SMS hospital took these things out after performing a two-hour operation on a 49-year-old woman Lata. "Lata was admitted here after she complained of severe stomach pain. After a complete check up the hospital prescribed her sonography test to diagnose the problem. Astonishingly the test revealed ob...

Thai King to Undergo Spine Surgery

...he past, reportedly cracked a rib on June 24 while performing walking exercises. (Source: IANS)...

Prime Minister Lauds the Exemplary Work of Mumbai’s Medical Fraternit

Saving lives, performing complicated multiple surgeries and consoling traum... to hospital Tuesday evening. "It has been tough performing life-saving surgeries and trying to console traumatised patients and their anxious relatives over th...

Minimally Invasive Lung Cancer Surgery Minimize the Treatment Timings

...challenging for surgeons who are not accustomed to performing videoscopic procedures and those who do not specialize in chest and lung surgery. Surgeons now come from around the world to receive training at Cedars-Sinai. An article in the February 2006 issue of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, authored by McKe...

Doppler USG-Safer Technique For Detection Of Rh Diseases In Fetus

...t 100%, even among experts with vast experience in performing Doppler ultrasound of the fetus and managing Rh-alloimmunized pregnancies. So they stated that the likelihood of occasions when serial amniocentesis will still be required would definitely be present....

Researchers Warn That Whooping Cough Is Still Very Prevalent

... would be irrational to suggest that GPs have been performing at a lower standard that patients may expect. He said, “Making a diagnosis of whooping cough necessitates uncomfortable blood tests which are usually avoided in young children unless there is clear benefit in undertaking the blood test. This new evid...

Jaw Reconstruction could be Possible in Oral Cancer Patients

...,’ says Dr. Moore. Drs. Price and Moore had been performing similar distraction osteogenesis in children born with small jawbones and wondered about the feasibility of using the procedure for adult oral cancer patients. Thus, they embarked on this research project to test it in animals and have tried this met...

Six Indians Win Australian Studies Fellowships

...ronment and health, film, media communications and performing arts, issues relating to indigenous Australians, ethnicities and multiculturalism, and tourism and gender studies. (Source: IANS News)...

Early Diagnosis and Treatment Slows Progression of Dementia

...creasing and persistent forgetfulness Difficulty performing familiar tasks Problems with finding the right words to express your thoughts Disorientation with time and place Poor or impaired judgment Problems with abstract thinking Putting everyday items in illogical places Mood, behavior or p...

Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety

...ve pediatric medical programs in the country, from performing emergency trauma surgery, to finding causes and treatments for childhood cancers, to delivering a child’s good bill of health. The Johns Hopkins Children Center’s Pediatric Trauma Service is Maryland’s only state-designated trauma center for children...

Bubble-Blowing Infants may Learn Language Skills Faster

Infants capable of performing complex mouth movements like blowing bubbles and licking their lips are more likely to pick up language quickly, researchers say. // Katie Alcock and fellow researchers at Lancaster University in Britain studied 120 toddlers and carried out a serie...

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