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Rare Tibetan antelope listed as endangered

...ive surgeons a better view during human endoscopic surgeries in which operations are performed through tiny "ke...t in three dimensions, the scanner could make such surgeries easier to perform and eventually more precise." Such surgeries also might be cheaper and less trauma...

3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery

...ive surgeons a better view during human endoscopic surgeries in which operations are performed through tiny "ke...t in three dimensions, the scanner could make such surgeries easier to perform and eventually more precise." Such surgeries also might be cheaper and less trauma...

Feds give researchers ok for safety test of adult stem cells in patients with heart disease

...mately 750,000 coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgeries were performed worldwide and approximately 1.8 million balloon angioplasty procedures were performed. While these interventional therapies are now the standard of care, there are still a significant number of people for whom these methods do not work...

Nanotechnology to provide portable genetic risk detection

...f a human hand, allowing it to be used in doctors' surgeries to determine the genetic predisposition of a patient to certain diseases in a matter of minutes. That compares to the hours or even days it can take to carry out the same analysis in a laboratory, which is generally only used to test high risk groups...

Lance Armstrong through a physiological lens: hard training boosts muscle power 8%

...hat he "displayed no ill-effects from his previous surgeries and chemotherapy" and were in line with measurements expected from highly trained athletes during periods of detraining, Coyle added later. The study notes that these findings could be "important because it provides insight, although limited, regard...

Scalpel-free surgery could reduce risk of HIV and hepatitis exposure for health care workers

..., researchers have shown that nearly 40 percent of surgeries at The Johns Hopkins Hospital occur in patients who tested positive for a bloodborne germ. "While these rates are alarming, they are not entirely unexpected. General precautions have been in effect for some time to prevent the spread of disease to h...

Nano-bumps could help repair clogged blood vessels

...if it has nano- features," Webster said. Numerous surgeries involving stents are performed annually worldwide, with sales of "vascular biomaterials" adding up to more than $1 billion each year. The research has been funded by the National Science Foundation. Webster's lab is affiliated with the Birck Nanotec...

Alzheimer's cognitive decline slowed

...events cell death and stimulates cell function. In surgeries that took place in 2001 and 2002 at UCSD's John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital, the genetically modified tissue was implanted deep within the brains of the eight patients who had volunteered for the study. The human clinical trial was undertaken ...

Ophthalmologists implant five patients with artificial silicon retina microchip

...ncipal investigator Dr. John Pollack performed the surgeries with Dr. Kirk Packo, Dr. Pauline Merrill, Dr. Mathew MacCumber, and Dr. Jack Cohen. All are members of Illinois Retina Associates, S.C., a private practice group and are on the Rush faculty. Patients leave the hospital the same day and will be follow...

Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss

...ncipal investigator Dr. John Pollack performed the surgeries with Dr. Kirk Packo, Dr. Pauline Merrill, Dr. Mathew MacCumber, and Dr. Jack Cohen. All are members of Illinois Retina Associates, S.C., a private practice group and are on the Rush faculty. Patients leave the hospital the same day and will be follow...

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