Needle in Medical News

Pelosi Statement on House Passage of Labor, HHS, Appropriations Bill, Which Lifts Ban on Needle Exchange

WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on House passage of the appropriations bill to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies. The bill, which also lifts the ban on federa...

Statement By Dr. Paul Zeitz Regarding a Proposed Amendment By Rep. Mark Souder to Prohibit HHS Funding For Needle Exchange

WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee approved an amendment by Representative Mark Souder (R-IN) which prohibits HHS (Health and Human Services) funding for programs which distribute sterile needles or syringes to pr...

NxStage(R) Announces Extension of Medisystems Needle Supply and Distribution Agreement

LAWRENCE, Mass. , July 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NxStage Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXTM ), a leading manufacturer of innovative dialysis products, today announced that its Medisystems subsidiary has extended for three years a supply and distribution agreement with Fenwal, Inc. of Lake...

New Vertebral Biopsy Needle Features Exclusive Cutting Cannula

The new product: Serratus™ Vertebral Biopsy Needle is a specialty biopsy needle used to capture a quality vertebral core sample. This new product features an exclusive cutting cannula. Attleboro, MA (PRWEB) March 2, 2009 -- NeedleTech Products, Inc. has introduce...

11-gauge needle better than 14-gauge in breast biopsy

Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast needle biopsy, a common minimally invasive biopsy method used in the US, is more effective with an 11-gauge needle than the 14-gauge needle decreasing a physician's chances of false-negative diagnoses, according to a study performed at the Stanford University Sc...

Surgical Students Fail to Report Needle Stick Injuries

Most of the surgical students stick themselves with needles and sharp instruments while in training. Most of the resulting injuries could be infectious and very often they are unreported. This is according to a new study by reported Martin Makary, M.D., a surgeon at the Johns Hopkins Hosp...

Drug Treatment Seekers Likely to Use Needle Exchange

A new study examined the connection between Baltimore City’s needle exchange program and drug treatment programs.// Individuals who enter treatment programs for drug addiction were more likely to be HIV-positive females who use the Baltimore City needle exchange programs. The study by res...

Scottish Prisons May Get Needle Exchange Programs

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has said that it is considering introducing a needle exchange program in jails from next year. In prisoners drug taking can trigger// diseases like Hepatitis C and HIV. "If you look at prisoner surveys some say they have shared needles in prison. There will a...

Novel Way to Overcome Needle Phobia

Needle phobia or fear of needles can be overcome by decorating them with flowers, butterflies, and smiley faces according to researchers at the University of New Mexico's// (UNM) Health Sciences Center. The researchers say that fear of needles can impact the care a patient receives. Many child...

'Girlie' Needle And Thread help Japanese Men to De-Stress

Tokyo: A group of men aged 40-someting have added a different stitch to the stereotypical Japanese man - a needle and a thread. Members of a men's only sewing club meet once a month to beat// the stress of their jobs as marketing professionals, computer engineers and film directors/producers. ...

AIIMS Counsel Claims Cancer Patient Got HIV Through Needle

The Delhi High Court has demanded an explanation from the medical superintendent (MS) of the AIIMS hospital as to how a boy suffering from cancer got inflicted with AIDS after undergoing blood transfusion in 2001. //The court has also asked for an explanation on why the relevant documents were not ...

Diagnostic tools and innovative therapies improve patient prognosis

...tools; however, their two main drawbacks are the lack of discrimination between cancerous and benign lesionsmost lesions turn out to be harmless after needle biopsiesand the inability to detect pre-cancerous lesions. It has been known for decades that sputum (phlegm) from lung cancer patients frequently ...

Blue Dye Halts Worsening Paralysis in Animal Study

...eurosurgery and director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "First, no one wants to put a needle into a spinal cord that has just been severely injured, so we knew we needed to find another way to quickly deliver an agent that would stop ATP from ...

West Los Angeles Dental Practice Adds ezlase Laser Treatment to its Services

... The advantages of using laser over conventional treatment are many. With conventional scalpels and stitches, a local anesthetic administered by needle is required. Many procedures performed with ezlase require only a topical anesthetic. Bleeding is common with conventional treatments, whereas with ez...

FRC Deplores House Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood

...dalized organization is a disgrace." "In addition, the appropriations legislation passed by Congress allows federal funding for controversial needle exchange programs and denies funding to abstinence programs. It appears the federal government is in the business of encouraging bad behavior." ...

Is RTA a new potential option for the treatment of hydatid cysts?

...hydatid cysts. No controlled study of this kind has been reported in the literature. RTA is a technique that converts electric power passing through a needle placed in an organ tissue into released heat, which then causes tissue necrosis. This technique is currently used for treatment of neoplasms, primaril...

Pelosi Remarks at Press Conference Today on Health Care Reform and Medical Costs

...I had to pay for 30 percent of all the services that the policy covered. And it didn't even cover all the services I needed. I remember staring at the needle of one shot. It cost $2,100, and thinking, "I have to pay 600 dollars for this today." Ultimately I wound up $100,000 in debt, between the m...

Following CMS Cuts to Reimbursement for Medical Errors, New Devices Aimed at Reducing Nosocomial Infections Emerge

...t antimicrobial-coated PICC. Additionally, the report provides full coverage of the short peripheral intravenous catheter, implantable port, and Huber needle markets. About Millennium Research Group Millennium Research Group (www.MRG.net), a Decision Resources, Inc. company (www.DecisionReso...

FDA Approves VITROS(R) Anti-HCV Assay for Use On VITROS 5600(R) Integrated and VITROS 3600(R) Immunodiagnostic Systems

...also be transmitted from mother to infant at childbirth, through sexual intercourse with an infected person, tattooing or body piercing and accidental needle sticks in healthcare settings(2,3). About the VITROS ((R) ) 3600 Immunodiagnostic System The VITROS((R)) 3600 Immunodiagnostic ...

FDA Approves NovoLog(R) Labeling Update

...proximately the size of a pager, the pump system is composed of a reservoir for the insulin, a small battery, the pump, and a thin plastic tube with a needle on the end that passes insulin into the body, called the infusion set. The updated NovoLog((R)) label also states that patients using NovoL...

Crime, Drugs and Health Problems Face Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

.... "Contracting infectious disease is one of the most dangerous aspects of intravenous drug use," said Hayes, "this is why the efforts made by needle exchange programs has made it somewhat safer for these users, but it's still important that treatment is the first option." The B.C. Center of Excelle...

Cats Purrfect at Getting Needs Met, Study Shows

...m people," said Dr. Leilani Alvarez, a veterinary acupuncturist in Bedford Hills, N.Y. "My feline patients guide me much more in choosing the points I needle than my canine patients do. They vocalize in unique ways that clearly communicate when a point doesn't agree with them -- it's not a hiss or a growl, ...

Bayer HealthCare Launches Hemophilia Self-Infusion Training Program

... themselves, self-treatment brings the ultimate goal - independence. The BayCuff self-infusion training program allows them to address issues such as needle phobias, working with their non-dominant hand and using veins they have not used before. Materials are designed to incorporate basic as well as more ...

ICU Medical, Inc. to Acquire Hospira's Critical Care Product Line

...signed to protect patients from catheter related bloodstream infections and healthcare workers from exposure to infectious diseases through accidental needle sticks or hazardous drugs. It is also a leader in the production of custom I.V. systems and incorporates proprietary products into many of those custo...

LeadConfirm Professional, the First Oral Based Lead Test, Makes Getting the Lead Out Easier - Now Available at Amazon.com

...Sciences, a San Diego-based biotech company, this test does not require any needle sticks or blood from the body. Just a few simple swabs of the inside cheek ...Sciences, a San Diego-based biotech company, this test does not require any needle sticks or blood from the body. Just a few simple swabs of the inside cheek ...

West Acquires Drug Delivery Assets From Plastef Investissements SA

...eris safety syringe, a passive safety system for use with fixed, or staked, needle prefillable syringes. Operations will continue at Plastef's production faci...ce, which has approximately 75 employees. The eris system for staked needle syringes complements West's NovaGuard(TM) passive safety needle, which it r...

LeadConfirm Professional Now Available at Overstock.com--The First Oral Based Lead Test Makes Getting the Lead Out Easier

...r lead exposure in the body using oral fluids. Developed by Confirm BioSciences, a San Diego-based biotech company, this test does not require any needle sticks or blood from the body. Just a few simple swabs of the inside cheek is all that is needed to determine how much lead a person has been exposed ...

LeadConfirm Professional Now Available at Drugstore.com - The First Oral Based Lead Test, Makes Getting the Lead Out Easier

...r lead exposure in the body using oral fluids. Developed by Confirm BioSciences, a San Diego-based biotech company, this test does not require any needle sticks or blood from the body. Just a few simple swabs of the inside cheek is all that is needed to determine how much lead a person has been exposed ...

Shared Race, Social Group Seem to Help People Relate

... -- watch videos in which a person appears to be pricked in the face with a needle or with a cotton swab. The observers showed increased empathic neural respo... when the person in the video was of the same race as themselves during the needle prick. The neural activity was much less when a person of a different race ...

Bladder Cancer No Longer a Death Sentence

...ing loss, tingling in his extremities and 'chemo brain'. Next, Daniels underwent Radio Frequency Ablation (RAF), a guided imagery surgery where a needle like probe transmits microwaves into tumors causing the destruction of tumor cells. The RAF destroyed the tumors, but he was told they would come bac...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Releases June Advisory

...In 2008, the Authority received 2,228 reports involving an incorrect sponge, sharp or instrument count. Of the reports, 1,040 (47%) involved incorrect needle counts, 731 (33%) involved incorrect equipment counts, and 454 (20%) involved incorrect sponge counts. During that same one-year period the Authority ...

Rotator cuff treatment provides immediate tendonitis relief

...tized and, with ultrasound guidance, a radiologist injects a saline solution into the rotator cuff to wash the area and break up the calcium. A second needle is used to aspirate, or withdraw, the calcium residue. Recovery time is about an hour. "People with calcific tendonitis should know that with a si...

GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy June issue study highlights

...ancreas, bile duct, and gallbladder when other tests are inconclusive, and can be used to determine the stage of cancers. Tissue samples, using a fine needle aspiration technique (FNA), can be obtained in real time with EUS guidance should an abnormality be seen. EUS is promising compared with other imaging...

Hospira Receives FDA Approval for Azithromycin for Injection

...injection were approximately $40 million in 2008. ADD-Vantage is a specially-designed, two-part system that does not require clinicians to use a needle and syringe to mix the drug and the solution. This reduces the risk of accidental needlesticks, enhances workflow and can result in less waste due to ...

AccuVein AV300, First Portable Vein Illumination Device, Now Available on GSA Schedule

... veins in difficult patients can take up to 10 minutes and require multiple needle sticks. Venipuncture is the most common invasive medical procedure with an ...in the United States alone. The AV300 can help reduce the need for multiple needle sticks, with the goal of improving patient care and the time to access vein...

Kiwanis International Pursuing Second Worldwide Service Project

...umped from 20 percent in 1990 to more than 70 percent today. "There remain a few pockets of need and we will remain vigilant to keep moving that needle upward, but it's time now to begin to identify the next Worldwide Service Project where the helping hands of Kiwanis can help improve the life of chil...

The Breast Center at Houston Northwest Medical Center Receives Prestigious National Award

...n breast imaging and is accredited by the American College of Radiology to perform mammography, stereotactic biopsy, ultrasound guided biopsy and fine needle aspiration. National Quality Measures for Breast Centers is a quality initiative of the National Consortium of Breast Centers, Inc. The Nationa...

Planned Parenthood Recognizes National HIV Testing Day

...sure to any of these fluids can put you at risk for HIV, which is most commonly spread through sexual intercourse (anal, vaginal, or oral), syringe or needle sharing, blood or blood products (rare in the United States) or being exposed to HIV before or during birth or through breast feeding. HIV is the vir...

Michigan Among Top Three E-Prescribing States in the Nation, Led by Automotive Company Initiative

... "That Michigan is now among the top three states in the nation in e-prescribing speaks to the success of the SEMI program in significantly moving the needle when it comes to physicians' adoption and use of this technology," said Marsha Manning, Manager of Health Care Initiatives and Public Policy for Gener...

Researchers develop new and efficient breast biopsy technique

...e new technique uses a mechanical arm to guide the needle for the biopsy and has a braking system to allow for accurate placement of the needle and to avoid needle motion. Breast biopsy procedures, using both m...