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Robotic Surgery A Cutting Edge in Medical Field

...ave shown that the surgeon and robot can be linked via a 4,000 mile Internet connection. Robots are starting to prove that they can be used to perform minimally invasive surgery with high precision. In theory there is no reason why the surgeon needs to be physically close to their patient, so long as th...

Flush Water Pipes to Reduce Lead Contamination Risk, Schools Told

It looks like a case of health care via health scare in the West. Panic triggered off by r... 65,000 homes connected to the city's water system via lead pipes, according to Councillor Janet Davis, who said yesterday that the city should be doing mo...

Combination Therapy Reduces Tumor Resistance to Radiation

...was shown to trigger tumor resistance to radiation via the activation of new blood vessel formation (angiogenesis) through molecules known as HIF-1regulated cytokines. In a study appearing online on June 7 in advance of publication in the July print issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Claire ...

Understanding and Treating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

...iology and genetics of CHD and is available online via Wiley InterScience at (http: www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ajmgc). In an introduction by Kate G. Ackerman and Barbara R. Pober of Harvard Medical School and several of the affiliated Harvard hospitals authors note that it is not known how many ...

Developing Antimetastasis Therapy- An Early Stage of Tumor Control.

...erapies. Scientists know that tumor cells spread via the lymphatic system, but they dont understand the details of how this deadly migration takes place. In the June 2007 issue of the journal Cancer Cell, EPFL Professor Melody Swartz and postdoctoral researcher Jacqueline Shields provide an explanation...

Blood Test Reveals Colon Cancer Proteins

... level that would form a molecular flag for cancer via a blood test." To find the flag, Getzenberg's team drew blood samples from 107 apparently healthy individuals the day before their scheduled colonoscopies, and from 28 colorectal cancer patients. Using a particular concentration of scaffold-prote...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...saving. “This wound therapy is usually delivered via a vacuum system which applies negative suction pressure to the wound base through a sponge sealed to the wound by an adherent drape,” says study senior author Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye. “The system accelerates wound contraction, decreases wound and tissue...

New Health Drink—Coffe

...e intestine to potential carcinogens in food), and via other mechanisms as well. People who drank four to six cups of coffee a day had a 28 percent reduced risk compared with people who drank two or fewer. Norwegian researchers found that women who drank one to three cups a day reduced their risk of c...

NASA Gets Ready To Address Tough Questions

... a question to be asked and an answer to come back via radio. Astronauts going to the moon and Mars for long periods of time must contend with the basic health risks from space travel, multiplied many times over: radiation, the loss of muscle and bone, and the psychological challenges of isolation. N...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

...aid they prefer to translate verbally, rather than via printed labels, because they feel it is more personal. However, study authors found that verbal information may be provided by someone without adequate language skills or not qualified to do so. For example, although 75 percent of the pharmacies had ...

Many Couples Choose to Donate Surplus Embryos for Stem Cell Research

... designed to quantify the number of frozen embryos via questionnaires sent to couples before or shortly after their IVF cycles. In the current study, the couples, who had undergone IVF at least 3 years earlier, were presented with four options for the fate of their surplus embryos. The researchers foun...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...ar brief intervention could be widely disseminated via such clinics, which serve people at highest risk of HIV infection. “This intervention may be particularly useful because it can be delivered by non-professional counsellors with minimal training,” say the authors, noting such counselling could bol...

HIV Eradication Unlikely Following Bone Marrow Transplantation

...nd intestines) which was only partially controlled via immunosuppressive drugs. At 114 days post-transplant, HAART was interrupted for three weeks due to suspected toxicity, and sixteen days after HAART interruption both HIV RNA (4.61 log10 copies/ml) and HIV DNA (2.50 log10 copies/106 PBMC) became de...

Jefferson Researchers Want to Learn If Heart Defect 'at Heart' of Some Migraines

...ht side of the heart to the left side of the heart via the PFO. Blood and material that travels through the PFO is not filtered or oxygenated and in this form may travel to the brain, which can trigger the changes in the blood vessels that underlies migraine. "Strokes, for example are sometimes trigger...

FDA Announces Audio Broadcasts on Emerging Drug Safety Information

... phone: at 1-800-FDA-1088; fax: 1-800-FDA-0178; or via the Internet at http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html. Source-Generef.com/B...

HeartLander - Futuristic Medical Technology Takes Off

...by keyhole surgery and then attached to the heart, via a vacuum line to its suction feet. Once attached it is controlled by three rigid wires, which are pushed and pulled by motors outside the body. The robot may also carry a needle, which could be used to inject stem cells and growth factor genes as w...

Robotic Surgeon to Team Up With Doctors, Astronauts on NASA Mission

...et connection from Seattle to Key Largo, Fla. then via a special wireless connection from there to a buoy, and finally via cable underwater. Images of the simulated patient will travel back over the same network. Raven wa...

British Doctor’s Pat for Indian Hospital

...Scotland. While she was transferred on a stretcher via Paris and Manchester, escorted by a doctor and nurse, Ziervogel travelled home alone. He said it was more than four hours before his wife was given a bed on a surgical ward, and staff then told him that the hospital was not able to handle patients ...

Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning and Memory

...eam has made its findings available and searchable via an open source/online journal. Previous studies on genes associated with neural plasticity have not focused on a complete set of genes, nor has the work been searchable, according to Barth. But now, their online database of the plasticity transcripto...

Software System to Improve the Function of Retinal Implants

...o a complex signal." This signal reaches the brain via the optic nerve. In the brain, the complex information is being decoded. The brain acquires the corresponding ability within the first months of life. During this time, the central visual system becomes individually adjusted to the retinal signals:...

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