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Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...nts. The study involved 558 patients scheduled for surgery for kidney cancer. About half the group received six vaccine injections at four-week intervals following surgery. The other half received no additional treatment .The patients were then followed for five years. Among the 379 patients for whom follow ...

Help For Kids With Difficulty In Sleeping

...e past decade, however, doctors have also used the surgery to treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a conditio...children diagnosed with OSA who were scheduled for surgery to remove their tonsils and adenoids. Each child’s caregiver filled out a standard survey on sleep-r...

Restoration Of Fertility After Cancer Treatment

...tments such as chemotherapy, radiation and radical surgery can cause a woman to experience premature menopause and diminish her chance of getting pregnant. Researchers in New York froze a 30-year-old woman’s ovarian tissue to determine if they could preserve her fertility. The woman suffered from breast ca...

Radiation Therapy An Effective Solution For Recurrent Prostate Cancer

... about 30,000 men in the United States who undergo surgery to have their prostates removed will have their ca...Researchers say these results show radiation after surgery could prevent prostate cancer from progressing. Results of the study also show the four-year progres...

Painkilling Patch As Effective As Intravenous Delivery Systems

...ent. For the study 636 patients following major surgery were assigned either to the patch with the painkil... excellent at relieving pain in the 24 hours after surgery while 77 percent of those getting morphine intravenously rated that method highly. Thus the patche...

A New Option for Patients Suffering From QT Syndrome

...ng or cardiac arrest. A new study shows a specific surgery can reduce the risk of fainting or sudden death in...lity of life. The new alternative is a 40-minute surgery called left cardiac sympathetic denervation. The procedure reduces the heart’s control from the symp...

The Benefits Of Keyhole Surgery

...cancer has been done on patients for 10 years. The surgery is done through small // holes instead of the more...ts have not previously been studied. Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer could become the treatment of choice after results from a new study. The study...

Continuation Of Medication After Heart Surgery Very Important

Discontinuing your medication after heart surgery may not be the be the wisest thing to do for your ... recent study confirms that coronary artery bypass surgery patients who stop taking heart medications, such as beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, may provoke ab...

Factors That Might Increase The Risk Of Schizophrenia

...stress, physical injury, infection, childbirth, or surgery “trigger” the disease. The researchers say this study shows a history of celiac disease is a risk factor for schizophrenia. However researchers say an important question to consider is the degree to which removal of gluten from the diet will allevi...

Eye Disorders, A Predictor Of A Shorter Lifespan

...der.Researchers also found people who had cataract surgery had a 55-percent higher risk of death than those with good vision, while those with vision worse than 20/40 in one eye had a 36-percent higher risk. However, a subgroup of participants was randomly assigned to take zinc, and these patients had a 27-...

New Technique For Benign Breast Tumors

...isk. In the past, doctors had to perform invasive surgery to remove the lump. But now, they can freeze it with a procedure called cryoablation. Doctors insert a probe into the tumor. Argon gas is passed through the probe to form an ice ball, which destroys the tumor. The body eventually absorbs it. The proc...

Laproscopic Surgery As Effective As Open Surgery

Doctors say minimally invasive surgery for colon cancer is as effective as open surgery. ...ons and one two-inch incision compared to the open surgery where doctors do a six- to eight-inch incision. But the question has remained whether minimally inva...

Urine Test for Kidney Cancer

...hase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Dr. Uzzo says surgery is the only way to determine whether the mass is cancerous. That could soon change thanks to research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. "This study was therefore designed to help distinguish, preoperatively, which tumors will be benign and which will b...

Risks Of An Enlarged Heart

...this abnormal heart condition includes medication, surgery or a defibrillator, a tool that automatically delivers an electric shock when an abnormal heart rhythm develops. At present with the latest technology identification of disease causing genes and the ability to identify at risk patients and prevent s...

Prevention Of Recurrent Leg Ulcers

...on will benefit from the addition of simple venous surgery which will result in reduced numbers of patients suffering with this chronic relapsing condition....

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Found To Increases Fracture Risk

...er and is often used when other treatments such as surgery or radiation are not good options. New research shows a common treatment for prostate cancer significantly increases the risk of fractures.For the study researchers studied men with prostate cancer who were being treated with gonadotropin-releasing ...

Cancer Treatment Harsh On Patients

...ise, and nausea. Patients who had neck-dissection surgery were 2.3-times more likely to be disabled. The findings confirm previous neck-dissection studies that show patients had increased levels of pain, weakness, and overall loss of function. People with head and neck cancer often experience problems with...

Blocking Pain Found To Slow Down The Healing Process

...ain medications widely prescribed for rotator cuff surgery may actually delay healing .// The rotator cuff is composed of the muscles and tendons that surround the top of the upper arm bone and hold it to the shoulder joint. The research involved 180 rats that received acute rotator cuff repair surgery. On...

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

...ls implanted with 19 patients who underwent a sham surgery for comparison purposes. All were tested for movement problems before the surgery and then again four months and 12 months later. Researchers then compared the scores between the two...

Early Detection Of Facial Abnormalities in a Fetus

... counseled regarding the expected appearance after surgery is performed, say specialists. MRI was also looked at as an alternative to Sonography and it was found that fetal MRI allows more detailed and conclusive prenatal evaluation of the upper lip than sonography alone. They also found soft palate defects...

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