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Cancers & Reconstruction

A team of doctors from different specialties, recently joined hands to demonstrate how a team based approach can benefit cancer patients. Dr. Peter Costantino, an otolaryngologist, about three years ago, found a rare and often fatal tumor in Angela Carrozza’s nasal cavity and right eye socket. According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, nearly 38,000 cases of head and neck can...

Radiation after Breast Reconstruction

Previous studies have shown breast cancer patients who receive radiation therapy after undergoing breast reconstruction and a mastectomy may be more likely to develop complications.// However, a new study shows this may not be the case. Researchers from the Fox Chase Cancer Center studied 85 women with breast cancer who underwent a mastectomy, breast reconstruction, and postoperative r...

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

Young children who undergo heart surgery fare better if they receive reconstituted blood rather than fresh whole blood say researchers.// Investigators say that children who received reconstituted blood -- which is made from stored red blood cells and plasma -- tended to accumulate less fluid, which leads to lower rates of inflammation. For the study, researchers compared resul...

Reconsideration Of Heart Transplant Eligibility

Age should not be a factor in determining transplant eligibility say researchers ,as a recent study has shown that older heart transplant patients do just as well as their younger counterparts. // Researchers evaluated all 275 adult patients who received a heart transplant at the University of Alberta Hospital between 1990 and 2000. The patients' mortality and morbidity rates were foll...

US surge in vaginal reconstruction

Hymenoplasty, a controversial procedure used to stitch up the torn hymen in girls in Asia, and Latin America, is rapidly gaining popularity in the United States // , for different reasons. Vaginal surgery, including the reattaching the hymen - long considered the only positive proof of virginity - is one of the fastest growing plastic surgery segments, the American Society of Plastic S...

Reconsider Health Benefits of Organic Baby Foods, advices new study

In a recent study, organic baby foods seemed to score less in nutrition value because of high sugar and lower levels of essential nutrients, // like iron and protein. Sales of organic baby food, is on the high, since three out of four babies are growing up on daily helpings of these foods. Regulations that mandated appropriate labeling of baby food , came into force last year. Yet it...

A New Bioactive Cement For Facial Reconstruction the future

Researchers from the American Dental Association Foundation (ADAF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology// (NIST), have developed a new technology that would help improve in reconstruction of face. This new technology helps in making scaffolds for bone tissue. The scaffold is laced with the patient's own cells. The scaffold is formed with a cement paste made of mineral...

Fine Polymer Scaffolding – a Boon for Skin Reconstructio

Skin reconstruction now becomes more effective and safe with a newer, finely electro-spinned, dissolvable scaffold that closely resembles natural skin//. Tissue engineers and chemists at the University of Sheffield have developed a new biodegradable scaffold made from simple polymers, which serve as an effective method for managing burns and other skin injuries. This ultra-fi...

Jaw Reconstruction could be Possible in Oral Cancer Patients

Mayo Clinic ENT pioneers have found a new method to reform the mandible (lower jaw) of oral cancer patients// . Senior investigator of the study, Eric Moore, M.D., said that without reconstructive procedures difficulties such as in eating, speaking and facial abnormalities would be seen in mandible-removed oral cancer patients. ‘We think this new process can be a huge advanta...

Britain Reconsidering New Visa Rules for Indian Doctors

Britain's health authorities are reconsidering recent changes in visa rules that in effect make thousands of doctors of Indian origin ineligible// to work in the National Health Service. The department of health (DoH) and the home office had put in place a new system by which employers would need to prove that no suitable candidate was available before applying for a work permit for so...

Court Orders NHS To Reconsider Funding Lung Cancer Drug

The Bromley NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT) has been asked by a court to reconsider giving the cancer treatment drug Tarceva to Linda Gordon, 47. The High Court was told that// the drug had not been approved for use by the NHS. But Mr Justice Ousele said that it was not legal that the NHS refuses to fund the drug despite clinical trials documenting its success. "It would be to raise fals...

Breast reconstruction may be possible with fat stem cells

Breast cancer survivors will be able to do away with invasive breast reconstruction surgery, replaced by an approach involving stem cells //extracted from their own fat, suggest University of Pittsburgh researchers who are investigating the potential these cells may have for renewing new breast tissue. In animal models, the researchers hope to prove that an injection of fat-derived st...

FDA To Reconsider Standards for Reviewing Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives

FDA in documents released Thursday announced it is reconsidering its standards for reviewing the failure rate of new oral contraceptives with lower doses// of estrogen and progestin, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the Journal, higher pregnancy rates in studies of new low-dose oral contraceptives have instigated the agency to reconsider what represents an "acceptable fai...

Delhi High Court Set Deadline to Reconstitute Medical Council of India

The Delhi High Court Tuesday set March 31 as the deadline to reconstitute the Medical Council of India (MCI) and asked four defaulting states// and five member universities to conduct their elections to facilitate reconstitution of the apex body of medical professionals. The bench of Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice H.R. Malhotra, while adjudicating a public interest petition by a...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

UC Irvine researchers have combined genetic and geographic data of the H5N1 avian flu virus to reconstruct its history over the past decade. //They found that multiple strains of the virus originated in the Chinese province of Guangdong, and they identified many of the migration routes through which the strains spread regionally and internationally. By knowing where H5N1 strains devel...

Computer Imaging Assists With Facial Reconstructive Surgery

A new calibration technique that involves measuring the distance between the upper ear and chin in photographs could help facial plastic surgeons// use computer imaging software, according to a report. “The importance of balanced facial proportions has been studied for centuries by architects, artists, physicians and dentists,” the authors write as background information in the articl...

Tissue Engineering for Craniofacial Reconstruction

Tissue engineering has emerged as a promising alternative for the reconstitution of lost or damaged organs and tissues, circumventing the complications associated with traditional transplants.// Tissue engineers attempt to repair or regenerate damaged tissue by using engineered tissue substitutes that can sustain functionality during regeneration and eventually integrate into the host...

Breast Cancer Patients Unaware of Reconstructive Surgery

Referral practices of general surgeons treating newly diagnosed breast cancer patients is responsible for the low rate of breast reconstructive surgery// in the United States, according to a new study. Published in the May 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that only one quarter of general surgeons refer most breast canc...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

Fletcher remembers little of the disfiguring accident that nearly killed him, but he likes to recall shopping in January 2007 near his home on Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Nobody stared at his torn face, he says. Not anymore, that is, because of his brand-new nose. In a series of six operations over a year-long period that ended with removal of the last suture...

Stem Cells In Belly Fat To Enhance Or Reconstruct Breasts

Its hope revived for women who feel less than that, after a lumpectomy for breast cancer. Researchers from California-based company Cytori, claim that stem cells found in the ubiquitous tummy fat , can in fact be used to reconstruct breasts. If this is so, it would be killing two birds with one stone, a flatter belly and a bigger bust size. Christened Celution, the procedure involves in...