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Study shows that tDCS and physical therapy improve walking ability in patients with Parkinson's disease

Noninvasive brain stimulation and physical therapy--alone or in combination--improve some measures of walking ability in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), concludes a clinical trial in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, the official journal of the Association of Academic Physiatrists.

27 Jun 2017

Study could help surgeons choose best approaches for hearing preservation in cochlear implant patients

Cochlear implants that have electrodes designed without wire perform better than those with wires for long-term hearing preservation, a Mount Sinai researcher has reported in a first-of-its-kind study.

27 Jun 2017

Clinical trial of immunotherapy shows promising results for patients with melanoma brain tumors

Two years ago, when Kathy Roberts was 54, she started having pain in her ankle. She ignored it. Then it became swollen, and she had more and more trouble walking. So she went to a series of doctors trying to figure out the problem.

27 Jun 2017

House seeks to cap malpractice awards as part of health care update

Last week, a jury awarded a Pennsylvania man $620,000 for pain and suffering in a medical malpractice lawsuit he filed against a surgeon who mistakenly removed his healthy testicle, leaving the painful, atrophied one intact.

27 Jun 2017

Innate immune cells of myeloid lineage play central role in AD pathogenesis than previously thought

Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single protein, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published June 19 in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

27 Jun 2017

3D printing in medicine

We would normally divide the additive manufacturing technology into seven different groups. Whilst they all focus on building layer by layer, the way in which those layers are constructed varies according to the different type of additive manufacturing technology that's being used.

27 Jun 2017

Racial disparities continue to exist in hospital readmissions, study finds

A new study in the journal Health Affairs shows that, despite being designed to more effectively manage care and control costs, black patients enrolled with Medicare Advantage are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital after a surgery than those enrolled on traditional Medicare.

27 Jun 2017

Robotic colorectal surgery offers clear advantages over open or laparoscopic operations

Up until now, the removal of bowel tumours in the lesser pelvis (rectal cancers) involved a major, generally invasive operation.

27 Jun 2017

Flat head syndrome does not have consequences beyond cosmetics

The number of infants who develop flat head syndrome - deformational plagiocephaly – has increased significantly since the start of the Back to Sleep campaign to combat Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the 1990s.

23 Jun 2017

Two-test combination accurately identifies benign pancreatic lesions

When performed in tandem, two molecular biology laboratory tests distinguish, with near certainty, pancreatic lesions that mimic early signs of cancer but are completely benign.

23 Jun 2017

UK Robotics Week to showcase latest AI and robotics research

The UK's world-leading robotics research will be showcased at the second UK Robotics Week, which begins on Saturday, 24 June, 2017 and runs until Friday, 30 June.

23 Jun 2017

Medical City Frisco pediatric urologists break down barriers regarding penile birth defects

One of the most common birth defects in newborn baby boys is never discussed, never seen in the media and rarely mentioned in medical educational material.

23 Jun 2017

Existing drugs could help subgroup of patients with osteosarcoma, suggest scientists

A subgroup of patients with osteosarcoma - a form of bone cancer - could be helped by an existing drug, suggest scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators at University College London Cancer Institute and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.

23 Jun 2017

Study provides evidence that cortical targets could enhance motor function after spinal cord injury

Monica A. Perez, P.T., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and The Miami Project, and colleagues, recently published A novel cortical target to enhance hand motor output in humans with spinal cord injury in the June issue of Brain that provides the first evidence that cortical targets could represent a novel therapeutic site for improving motor function in humans paralyzed by spinal cord injury (SCI).

23 Jun 2017

Human colon organoids fill gap in effectively modeling common GI diseases

Scientists used human pluripotent stem cells to generate human embryonic colons in a laboratory that function much like natural human tissues when transplanted into mice, according to research published June 22 in Cell Stem Cell.

22 Jun 2017

Study: Addition of MRI to mammography improves cancer detection after breast conservation therapy

A new article published by JAMA Oncology compares outcomes for combined mammography and MRI or ultrasonography screenings for new breast cancers in women who have previously undergone breast conservation surgery and radiotherapy for breast cancer initially diagnosed at 50 or younger.

22 Jun 2017

Survivors of childhood diseases struggle to find care as adults

Rachael Goldring was born with congenital heart disease. Had she been born a few decades earlier, she probably would have died as a baby. Now 24, Goldring is part of a population of patients who present new challenges to a health care system unaccustomed to dealing with survivors of once-fatal conditions.

22 Jun 2017

Simple blood test could improve treatment for many stage 2 colon cancer patients

A simple blood test could improve treatment for more than 1 in 6 stage 2 colon cancer patients, suggests new Mayo Clinic research. The researchers also discovered that many patients who could benefit from the test likely aren't receiving it.

21 Jun 2017

Could a blood test predict how cancer spreads in children?

Traditionally, we use biopsies to try to predict how cancer spreads. There are a number of molecular markers that are used, but biopsy is a limited approach. Now, the current trend is to use liquid biopsy, which is basically a blood sample.

21 Jun 2017

Vanderbilt engineers use coffee grounds to develop novel surgical tool

Imagine plopping six cups of coffee grounds on the heads of patients just before they are wheeled into the operating room to have nose or throat surgery? In essence, that is what a team of Vanderbilt University engineers are proposing in an effort to improve the reliability of the sophisticated "GPS" system that surgeons use for these delicate operations.

21 Jun 2017

Surgery News and Research

Study shows that tDCS and physical therapy improve walking ability in patients with Parkinson's disease

Study could help surgeons choose best approaches for hearing preservation in cochlear implant patients

Clinical trial of immunotherapy shows promising results for patients with melanoma brain tumors

House seeks to cap malpractice awards as part of health care update

Innate immune cells of myeloid lineage play central role in AD pathogenesis than previously thought

3D printing in medicine

Racial disparities continue to exist in hospital readmissions, study finds

Robotic colorectal surgery offers clear advantages over open or laparoscopic operations

Flat head syndrome does not have consequences beyond cosmetics

Two-test combination accurately identifies benign pancreatic lesions

UK Robotics Week to showcase latest AI and robotics research

Medical City Frisco pediatric urologists break down barriers regarding penile birth defects

Existing drugs could help subgroup of patients with osteosarcoma, suggest scientists

Study provides evidence that cortical targets could enhance motor function after spinal cord injury

Human colon organoids fill gap in effectively modeling common GI diseases

Study: Addition of MRI to mammography improves cancer detection after breast conservation therapy

Survivors of childhood diseases struggle to find care as adults

Simple blood test could improve treatment for many stage 2 colon cancer patients

Could a blood test predict how cancer spreads in children?

Vanderbilt engineers use coffee grounds to develop novel surgical tool

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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