Rare surgery performed to remove pancreas, prevent diabetes
In a 12-hour, dual-stage surgery known to be performed at only two other centers in the U.S., doctors at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Tuesday returned a patient's own insulin-producing cells to him after surgically removing his pancreas to eliminate constant, severe pain from chronic pancreatitis. The patient, Leonard Stewart, 47, of Panama City, Fla., remained anesthetized i...Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US
Think twice before you blithely swat, stomp, curse or ignore insects, says Cornell University entomologist John Losey, who co-authored a study that shows the dollar value of some of those insect services is more than $57 billion in the United States annually. The research appears in the journal BioScience today (April 1). "Most insects tirelessly perform functions that improve our environm...HTRF IP-One Assay Performed on the PHERAstar and RUBYstar Plate Readers
and Jean-Luc Tardieu Application Note 137 Rev. 12/2005 IP-One assay for Gq...Promegas Multiplexed Cell Viability and Apoptosis Assays performed on the PHERAstar
Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA Application Note 138 Rev. 07/2006 Correlated measurement of an apoptosis marker (or caspase activity) and cell viability Monitoring of both lumi...Promegas Multiplexed Luciferase Reporter and Cell Viability Assays performed on the PHERAstar
Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA Application Note 139 Rev. 7/2006 Multiplexing homogeneous cell-based assays for analysis of different parameters from a single sample well Monito...Total marrow irradiation using TomoTherapy System performed at City of Hope
"We wanted to explore the use of TomoTherapy to selectively deliver radiation therapy to the entire marrow compartment, sparing radiation to critical normal organs such as lung, heart, b...Bypass Heart Surgery Performed Without General Anesthesia
A minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) procedure was performed at Pittsburgh while the patient was awake. The operation was done under thoracic epidural anesthesia. This approach may help in discharging the patient early from the hospital. Dr. Zenati from the team of doctors who performed the surgery said that patients who are operated in this way may not have to go t...First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals
PET-CT guided radiotherapy for monitoring and treatment of cancer patients by doctors in Apollo Hospital. This PET-CT guided radiotherapy procedure was performed for the first time in India. // Apollo Cancer Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the country with a PET-CT guided radiotherapy technology, Director, Vijay Anand Reddy reported in a news conference. PET is a Positron Emiss...Hip Replacement Can Now Be Performed On Virtual Patients
European Researchers have now developed a system that would help doctors perform hip replacement surgeries// on a virtual copy of their real patient. This would greatly improve the treatment outcome for patients for whom it surgery is necessary. Several techniques involving virtual reality, tissue profiling and stereoscopic vision have been culminated to create virtual patients that mim...First Frontal CSF Endoscopic surgery performed in Chennai
ENT and Plastic Surgeon Dr. P. Thulasi Das and his team has performed an Endoscopic surgery for Frontal Sinus cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) // leak to a 25 years old patient in Venkateswara Hospital in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. The patient was suffering from meningitis. Meningitis is the inflammation of the meninges that covers the brain and spinal cord, meningitis is caused by bacterial...First Ever Face Transplant In China Successfully Performed
Doctors in China have performed the country's first face transplant, and the second such operation in the world.// A surgical team at the Xijing hospital in Xi'an replaced two-thirds of the face of 30-year-old Li Guoxing, who was disfigured after a bear mauled him two years ago, Zhang Yingzhi, the president of the hospital, said Friday. "The surgery is even more complex...