Documents tagged 'Surgery'
Published: 15/11/2008
Jose Jimenez used to weigh 350 pounds. Then last year, at the age of 16, he turned to a drastic measure to lose weight -- bariatric surgery, or what is sometimes known as stomach stapling. ’I wanted something that would work for me and I knew that the surgery would do that,’ Jose said....
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Janet Basu jbasu@pubaff.ucsf.edu 415-476-2557 University of California - San Francisco Endoscopic fetal treatment increases survival to 73 percent for a severe defect that hampers lung growth -- comparison group in a randomized trial increases survival to 77 percent with standard care...
Published: 15/11/2008
Egyptian twins formerly conjoined at the head saw each other for the first time since surgery to separate them two weeks ago, their doctor said Friday. Two-year-old Mohamed Ibrahim was more awake than brother Ahmed and seemed to recognize his sibling after he was wheeled in a red wagon into...
Published: 15/11/2008
NEW YORK (USA) - Stomach bypass surgery should become ’standard treatment’ for morbidly obese patients with type 2 diabetes, researchers recommend, because the majority achieve excellent glucose control following the procedure. In the Annals of Surgery, Dr. Philip R. Schauer, at the...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Nicole Fawcett nfawcett@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich. (USA) - Surgeons at the University of Michigan Health System report that they have been able to strip tiny blood vessels from rats and re-engineer them to be more effective when...
Published: 15/11/2008
The apparent benefits of the revolutionary technique for hip replacement surgery were questioned yesterday. Angus Wallace, professor of orthopaedic surgery at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, said there were doubts over how long the replacement hips would last. ’There is some serious...
Published: 15/11/2008
Heart surgeons are running out of work after scoring spectacular gains against Britain’s biggest killer. vA huge push to increase the number of patients treated for heart disease over the past three years has nearly eliminated the long queues for heart surgery, with just 375 patients waiting...
Published: 15/11/2008
Tampa, FL (USA) - Patients operated on in ambulatory surgery centers are safer than those who undergo procedures in doctors’ offices - though the relative risk of death or injury is tiny in both types of facilities, a new Florida study indicates. The comparative outcomes study by physicians...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Laura Sussman lsussman@mdanderson.org 713-792-0655 University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Pre-surgery chemotherapy HOUSTON (TX. USA) -- Treating locally advanced bladder cancer with neoadjuvant chemotherapy -- chemotherapy before surgery -- can offer longer life to patients...
Published: 15/11/2008
Public squeamishness over the limits of modern surgery are to be tested next week when specialists propose the transplant of a whole human face from a dead to a living person. At least five teams around the world are making preparations for the transplant, which would cross ethical and...
