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UPMC Surgeons Create 3-D Models to Prepare for Complex Face Transplants
PITTSBURGH – By combining conventional medical imaging with some of the same 3-D modeling techniques used in Hollywood blockbusters, doctors at UPMC are reinventing how plastic surgeons prepare for complicated face transplant surgeries. Researchers with the Reconstructive Transplant Program have developed a new fused 3-D model that can be manipulated by surgeons to prepare for surgery and will present their work at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) on Monday, Nov. 28, in Chicago.
Polarized filter may reduce unnecessary cervical biopsies and surgeries
by Toni Baker - The same filtered light that enables sunglasses to reduce glare may improve a physician’s ability to detect early signs of cervical cancer, reducing unnecessary biopsies and surgery....Unique method behind transplant of artificial trachea
An article describing the world's first transplant of an artificial trachea seeded with stem cells is published online by The Lancet. A 36-year-old Eritrean patient received the transplant in June at the Karolinska University Hospital. The project was led by Professor Paolo Macchiarini at the Karolinska Institutet, who now continues to improve and extend the regenerative medicine approaches for transplantation to the lungs, heart, and oesophagus....Giving thanks for life after lung transplant 10 years ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — She spent Thanksgiving with friends in Cedar Key that year, eating dinner and watching as a few of the men put up walls in the house being built on the land. But it was the call she received as they drove home across the Cedar Key bridge that Debbie Labud will always remember....Surgery Improves Endocarditis-Induced Heart Failure Survival Rates
By Duke Medicine News and Communications - Surgery significantly improves short- and long-term outcomes in patients with heart failure caused by a bacterial infection known as endocarditis, according to Duke University Medical Center researchers....Hospital Readmissions After Colon Surgery Common, Costly - and Preventable
Johns Hopkins researchers find nearly one in four patients readmitted within 90 days at a cost of $300 million a year ...Early surgery for heart infections may reduce serious complications
Study Highlights: - Early surgery for infective endocarditis eliminated some complications and repeat infections. - Early surgery along with antibiotics is a viable alternative to standard treatment, which includes surgery only for patients who develop life-threatening complications or don’t respond to antibiotics....University of Glasgow researchers set to study effects of weight loss surgery
Researchers at the University of Glasgow have been awarded a grant to conduct a pioneering study into the long-term health effects of weight loss surgery. ...Patients with atrial fibrillation sought for study of novel alternative to open-chest surgery
BY TANYA LEWIS - Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine are seeking participants for a study examining the effectiveness of an experimental treatment for a heart condition known as atrial fibrillation....New Minimally Invasive Approach to Hip Replacements
ALBANY, N.Y. - Albany Medical Center is offering a new approach for patients in need of hip replacement surgery. ...
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Jon
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12/10/2011 16:41:04
One reason people get the wrong idea: articles like yours that talk about "association with the risks of smoking"
Hello? Are you familiar with the ...
brigitte
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07/10/2011 14:29:44
Those listed items are not going to make much impact. Smoking compromises babies, but doesn't result in prematurity anymore than any other imperfect practice prenatally. ...
admin
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06/10/2011 18:47:06
Actually there is a great deal of published evidence of fluoride in drinking water severely harming the health of users.
Try examining the dozens of clinical ...
Richard Windsor
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29/09/2011 05:25:07
Point to a single double-blind placebo controlled trial that meets modern standards of evidence based medicine and I might consider your argument.
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