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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...

Penn Researchers Use Robotic Surgery

For patients with cancer of the mouth and throat, surgery is a frequent course of treatment, often leading to speech and swallowing dysfunction and external scarring. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine's Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, have completed two studies ?the most comprehensive and largest to date ?that demonstrate the effective use...

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

While the incidence of disease from HIV and hepatitis is increasing in the United States, little is known about their prevalence in patients undergoing surgery. Now, 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 p...

Successful lung cancer surgery not enough to break nicotine dependence in many smokers

A new study has found that close to half of 154 smokers who had surgery to remove early stage lung cancer picked up a cigarette again within 12 months of their potentially curative operation, and more than one-third were smoking at the one year mark. Sixty percent of patients who started smoking again did so within two months of surgery. The study, led by researchers at Washington Univers...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

The new surgical assistant at the University of North Carolina Hospitals arrived in February sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for morbid obesity. The new arrival is a robotic machine, the da Vinci Surgical System, manufact...

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Software to aid brain surgery is goal of Milwaukee startup

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Biofuels surge forward

Wisconsin's energy future may include more biobased fuels to reduce the state's reliance on imported oil and reinvigorate rural economies. A recent policy initiative, consortium and related bill from Madison explore ethanol use and production expansion and try to incorporate major industrial sectors into the alternative energy market. "The ultimate objective [of the consortium] is to fi...

Corporate clients will dominate surge in nanotech tool demand, study projects

Corporate research and development will dominate a surge in demand for nanotech tools in the coming years, according to a study released this week by a New York consulting firm that focuses on nanotechnology. The study, by "Interest i...

Vector Surgical hopes to turn frustration into faster surgeries

Surgeons have little enough time without spending inordinate amounts of it on rote procedures. For Milwaukee-area general surgeon Michael Phillips, frustration with having...

Midwest Investment Bank Piper Jaffray Resurges in New York City

CHICAGO I just returned from New York City, which was the site of the Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference. It was held from Tuesday to Thursday last week. The significance of this conference is: of 2004s east coast-based healthcare conferences. Remember that we started off the year with the JP Morgan Chase H&Q Healthcare Conference in San Francisco ab...

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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 to the in...

NEW ROBOTIC SURGERY ARM APPROVED BY FDA

FDA today cleared for marketing a robotic device that enables a surgeon to perform laparoscopic gall bladder and reflux disease surgery while seated at a console with a computer and video monitor. The surgeon can use hand grips and foot pedals on the console to control three robotic arms that can perform the surgery using a variety of surgical tools. The product, the Da Vinci Surgical System, mad...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

Thyroid hormone treatment after surgery requiring heart bypass speeds recovery in children undergoing correction of congenital heart defects, according to a clinical trial published in The Lancet. The effects were greatest in the patients who underwent long and difficult surgeries. Following trauma or surgery or during a critical illness, thyroid hormone concentrations plummet. Ma...

Indian Prime Minister has successful Knee Replacement Surgery

Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister of India has successfully undergone left knee joint replacement by Dr. Chittaranjan Ranawat at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai. "The operation, which started at around 10 a.m., was completed by 11.15 a.m. and went on very well, to my satisfaction," Dr. Ranawat said at a press briefing. ``He (Mr. Vajpayee) was awake and comfortable throughout the op...

Two doctors suspended for wrong brain surgery

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Twin-Tip Surgeons' Pen

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Hydraulic Ophthalmic Stretcher For Eye Surgery

Description:Hydraulic ophthalmic stretcher for eye surgery....
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Ophthalmic Surgery Stretcher

Description:Ophthalmic surgery stretcher. Designed for exceptional surgeon access, ideal for either superior or temporal approach....
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Gendron Ophthalmic Eye Surgery Stretcher

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Sonotom 110 for minimal invasive surgery

Description:Multifunctional instrumentation, capable of comminution, aspiration and irrigation of tissue by means of ultra-sonic energy. Allows for preservative operations on organs, and, in particular, parenchymatous organs, offering the specific advantages of tissue-selection and non-traumatic preparation with a low level of bleeding....
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Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

Rivaroxaban, a New Oral, Once-Daily Direct Factor Xa Inhibitor,Shows a Significant Reduction in Deep Vein Thrombosis and PulmonaryEmbolism Compared with Enoxaparin with Similarly Low BleedingRates GENEVA, July 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase III clinical trialdata presented today at the XXI International Society on Thrombosisand Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstrate that once-daily...

Phase III Trial Results Show Superiority of Rivaroxaban over Enoxaparin for the Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Knee Replacement Surgery

GENEVA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 8, 2007 - Late-breaking Phase IIIclinical trial data presented today at the XXI InternationalSociety on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) Congress demonstratethat once-daily rivaroxaban achieved superior efficacy in theprevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients undergoingknee replacement surgery in a head-to-head comparison withenoxaparin, the curren...

The Eloxatin-Based Regimen (FOLFOX4) Significantly Improved Progression Free Survival When Given Before and After Surgery in Patients With Resectable Liver Metastases From Colorectal Cancer

Presentation at ASCO Plenary Session Reports EORTC 40983 (EPOC)Intergroup Study Results CHICAGO, June 04, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Results of therandomized phase III EORTC 40983 Intergroup study, or EPOC study,demonstrate for the first time that peri-operative (pre and postsurgery) FOLFOX4 (Eloxatin(R) (oxaliplatin injection) incombination with a standard chemotherapy regimen for co...

Cypher Sirolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent Had Similar Results to Bypass Surgery and Better Outcomes Than Bare Metal Stents in Subgroup Analysis of Diabetic Patients With Multivessel Coronary Disease

BARCELONA, Spain, May 22, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A three-yearfollow-up subset analysis presented today as a late-breakingclinical trial at EuroPCR 2007 showed that the CYPHER(R)Sirolimus-eluting Coronary Stent had results comparable to coronaryartery bypass grafting (CABG or bypass surgery) and better outcomesthan bare metal stents (BMS) in diabetic patients with blockages intw...

ArteFill 5-Year Data to Be Presented at American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Annual Meeting

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 17, 2007 - Artes Medical, Inc.(Nasdaq:ARTE), a medical technology company focused on developing,manufacturing and commercializing a new category of aestheticinjectable products for men and women, today announced that thefinal 5-year safety and efficacy data for ArteFill(R), theCompany's FDA-approved non-resorbable injectable dermal filler willbe presented at...

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