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Guns are the biggest public health threat kids face. Why aren’t they getting the message?

I still remember the raspy voice of the wizened cancer patient with the hole in her throat. So addicted to the poison that was killing her — cigarettes — she interspersed her words of warning about the dangers of smoking with taking puffs of a cigarette through her tracheostomy hole.

3 Mar 2023

Existing CT scans estimate hardened fatty plaque deposits in the heart's largest blood vessels

Instead of special heart scans, physicians can use images of the chest captured months earlier, and for other reasons, to estimate patients' risk of heart attack or death during several kinds of major surgeries, a new study shows.

2 Mar 2023

New research could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

Seizures can be predicted more than 30 minutes before onset in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, opening the door to a therapy using electrodes that could be activated to prevent seizures from happening, according to new research from UTHealth Houston.

2 Mar 2023

A journey back to wellness after three kidney transplants and weight gain

Rowena Roque, 46, was having a problem that many people can relate to: doing everything in her power to lose weight and get healthy but never succeeding.

2 Mar 2023

Study finds higher mortality rate among Black men after elective surgery

Black men have a higher death rate within 30 days of surgery compared with any other subgroup of race and sex, finds a study of adults in the United States published in The BMJ.

2 Mar 2023

California’s massive Medicaid program works for some, but fails many others

Newborns. Former inmates. College students. Expectant moms. People with disabilities. Foster kids. Homeless people. Single dads.

2 Mar 2023

Starting immunotherapy before surgery improves the outlook for patients with stage III-IV melanoma

Patients with high-risk melanoma who received the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab both before and after surgery to remove cancerous tissue had a significantly lower risk of their cancer recurring than similar patients who received the drug only after surgery.

1 Mar 2023

Recent advances in surgical care reduce brain injuries in infants with congenital heart disease

Recent advances in newborn heart surgery have greatly reduced brain injuries in infants with congenital heart disease, according to a 20-year study by scientists at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and British Columbia Children’s Hospital.

1 Mar 2023

Gut bacteria influence the liver's regenerative ability

When parts of the liver are removed, the body can replace the missing tissue. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich has now discovered that the success of this process depends to a large extent on gut bacteria.

1 Mar 2023

Modifying gut flora before surgery could reduce postoperative complications in colorectal cancer patients

In a promising study, Canadian researchers have shown for the first time in mice that modifying intestinal flora before surgery could reduce postoperative complications in colorectal cancer patients.

1 Mar 2023

What are the clinical considerations of proton radiotherapy for individuals with locally advancing breast cancer?

In a recent review published in Current Oncology, researchers highlighted the technical and clinical considerations for proton radiotherapy delivery for individuals with locally advancing breast malignancies.

1 Mar 2023

Promising alternative strategy for islet transplantation in people with type 1 diabetes

In people with type 1 diabetes, the body's immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing β cells that control blood glucose levels and are part of a group of cells in the pancreas called pancreatic islets.

1 Mar 2023

New imaging method could help make better decisions on personalized cancer treatment

Decisions on cancer treatment could become better tailored to individual patients with the adoption of a new imaging method being developed by University of Michigan researchers that maps the chemical makeup of a patient’s tumor.

1 Mar 2023

Researchers receive $15 million to study the brain processes involved in speech, epilepsy, and reading

Three grants totaling $15 million, which aim to enhance knowledge of the brain processes that play a key role in speech, epilepsy, and reading, have been awarded to researchers at UTHealth Houston by the National Institutes of Health Brain Research Through Advancing Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

1 Mar 2023

Surgery News and Research

Guns are the biggest public health threat kids face. Why aren’t they getting the message?

Existing CT scans estimate hardened fatty plaque deposits in the heart's largest blood vessels

New research could greatly improve the quality of life for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy

A journey back to wellness after three kidney transplants and weight gain

Study finds higher mortality rate among Black men after elective surgery

California’s massive Medicaid program works for some, but fails many others

Starting immunotherapy before surgery improves the outlook for patients with stage III-IV melanoma

Recent advances in surgical care reduce brain injuries in infants with congenital heart disease

Gut bacteria influence the liver's regenerative ability

Modifying gut flora before surgery could reduce postoperative complications in colorectal cancer patients

What are the clinical considerations of proton radiotherapy for individuals with locally advancing breast cancer?

Promising alternative strategy for islet transplantation in people with type 1 diabetes

New imaging method could help make better decisions on personalized cancer treatment

Researchers receive $15 million to study the brain processes involved in speech, epilepsy, and reading

New screening tool can efficiently assess cognition issues in older adults

Chemotherapy affects the cellular landscape of tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer

This dental device was sold to fix patients’ jaws. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth.

Mercy Medical Center and UMMC offer a Liver Transplant Clinic to help transplant patients

Research shows how obesity affects testing and treatment of heart disease

Jersey Shore University Medical Center celebrates the opening of new Pulmonary Hypertension Center

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Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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