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Professor receives ALSF grant to develop cancer vaccine technology that help children to have healthy life

In 2004, a form of cancer known as neuroblastoma claimed the life of Alexandra (Alex) Scott, a little girl who gained national attention for using her lemonade stand to raise money for cancer research.

8 Jan 2014

Cornell biomedical engineers identify new way to destroy metastasizing cancer cells

Cornell biomedical engineers have discovered a new way to destroy metastasizing cancer cells traveling through the bloodstream - lethal invaders that are linked to almost all cancer deaths - by hitching cancer-killing proteins along for a ride on life-saving white blood cells.

8 Jan 2014

Oxygen Biotherapeutics announces publication of Phase 3 trial protocol for levosimendan

Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. ("OBI") a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing a portfolio of products for the critical care market, today announced that the protocol of their phase 3 trial for levosimendan has been published on ClinicalTrials.gov, "Levosimendan in Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction Undergoing Heart Surgery on Cardiopulmonary Bypass."

7 Jan 2014

Quality of life considerations are key when patients consider bariatric surgery

While weight loss surgery offers one of the best opportunities to improve health and reduce obesity related illnesses, the nearly 100,000 Americans who undergo bariatric surgery each year represent only a small fraction of people who are medically eligible for the procedure. Among those who have surgery, Caucasian Americans are twice as likely as African Americans to have weight loss surgery. On the surface, the data appear to signal racial disparity, but when researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center dug deeper to ask why this variation exists, the answer was more complicated.

7 Jan 2014

Loyola's Surgery Department ranked 18th in NIH medical school funding in 2013

The Surgery Department of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine ranked 18th in the nation in National Institutes of Health medical school funding in 2013, according to the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.

7 Jan 2014

DePuy Synthes Spine announces the U.S. launch of new tissue implant for spine fusion surgery

DePuy Synthes Spine, in collaboration with DePuy Synthes Biomaterials, announced today the U.S. launch of CONFORM SHEET, a hydrated, pliable and totally demineralized cancellous bone matrix that fills voids during posterolateral spinal fusion surgery and provides a natural scaffold for new bone formation.

7 Jan 2014

Rice University, MD Anderson analyze complications on costs of complex cancer surgery

Although complications from surgical care for cancer patients may seem infrequent, the costs associated with such outcomes are extremely high, according to researchers from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

7 Jan 2014

DePuy Synthes develops CONFORM SHEET allograft implant for spinal fusion surgery

DePuy Synthes Spine, in collaboration with DePuy Synthes Biomaterials, announced today the U.S. launch of CONFORM SHEET™, a hydrated, pliable and totally demineralized cancellous bone matrix that fills voids during posterolateral spinal fusion surgery and provides a natural scaffold for new bone formation.

7 Jan 2014

MD Anderson, Pfizer to advance development of immune-based treatment for cancer

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Pfizer will collaborate in the development of immune-based approaches to cancer treatment, the first such agreement made through MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program immunotherapy platform.

6 Jan 2014

New approach aims to prevent brain cancer recurrence by attacking tumors at the source

Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery identified immune system targets on cancer stem cells - cells from which malignant brain tumors are believed to originate and regenerate - and created an experimental vaccine to attack them.

6 Jan 2014

Implanting tubes in ears is less likely to improve long-term cognitive and functional development

Watchful waiting or ear tube surgery? It is a decision faced by millions of families of children with recurrent or chronic otitis media with effusion (non-infected fluid in the middle ear) each year.

6 Jan 2014

Perioperative analgesia may improve prostate cancer outcomes

Neuraxial analgesia added to general anesthesia for radical retropubic prostatectomy may lead to improved oncologic outcomes in prostate cancer, US researchers have found.

6 Jan 2014

SUI and UUI show complex interrelationship

A study by US researchers has failed to identify any modifiable risk factors for urgency urinary incontinence among women undergoing surgery for stress urinary incontinence.

6 Jan 2014

Parkinson's disease patients from lower socioeconomic status less likely to receive DBS

Among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, female, black, Asian and patients are substantially less likely to receive proven deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery to improve tremors and motor symptoms, according to a new report by a Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania researcher who identified considerable disparities among Medicare recipients receiving DBS for Parkinson's disease.

5 Jan 2014

Fremont-based Memorial Hospital becomes member of ProMedica system

Fremont-based Memorial Hospital has officially become a member of the ProMedica system.

5 Jan 2014

Physicians Realty Trust closes previously announced mezzanine loan of $6.9 million

Physicians Realty Trust, a self-managed healthcare properties REIT, announced today that it has closed its previously announced mezzanine loan of approximately $6.9 million to affiliates controlled by MedProperties Holdings, LLC, a leading Dallas-based private investor in healthcare real estate (the "Loan").

3 Jan 2014

Winners and losers: Some will see big benefits from the overhaul, others may take hits

USA Today reports midsize businesses may be the ones having the hardest time absorbing health care costs while other groups -- for instance, newly released prisoners -- could finally be eligible for health coverage.

3 Jan 2014

Medicare shapes what others pay for health care

Because of Medicare's huge scale, the prices it pays for procedures often shape what others pay for similar care, economist are finding. In the meantime, the program continues to look for ways to prevent inappropriate prescribing by its doctors.

2 Jan 2014

Surgeons develop iPad app to capture trauma patient data in low medical resource environment

Electronic health records have become standard practice throughout hospitals in North America, but in countries with fewer resources many front-line clinicians are still collecting data on paper, if they are collecting it at all. But now, surgeons from Vancouver, British Columbia, have developed a way for their peers at a Level I trauma center in South Africa to accurately collect and analyze trauma care data via an iPad app. The study is published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

2 Jan 2014

MEDNAX acquires Summit Anesthesia Associates

MEDNAX, Inc., today announced the acquisition of Summit Anesthesia Associates, P.A., a physician group practice primarily based in Summit, New Jersey. The practice will become part of MEDNAX's American Anesthesiology division and is the second New Jersey-based anesthesiology practice to join this division.

2 Jan 2014

Surgery News and Research

Professor receives ALSF grant to develop cancer vaccine technology that help children to have healthy life

Cornell biomedical engineers identify new way to destroy metastasizing cancer cells

Oxygen Biotherapeutics announces publication of Phase 3 trial protocol for levosimendan

Quality of life considerations are key when patients consider bariatric surgery

Loyola's Surgery Department ranked 18th in NIH medical school funding in 2013

DePuy Synthes Spine announces the U.S. launch of new tissue implant for spine fusion surgery

Rice University, MD Anderson analyze complications on costs of complex cancer surgery

DePuy Synthes develops CONFORM SHEET allograft implant for spinal fusion surgery

MD Anderson, Pfizer to advance development of immune-based treatment for cancer

New approach aims to prevent brain cancer recurrence by attacking tumors at the source

Implanting tubes in ears is less likely to improve long-term cognitive and functional development

Perioperative analgesia may improve prostate cancer outcomes

SUI and UUI show complex interrelationship

Parkinson's disease patients from lower socioeconomic status less likely to receive DBS

Fremont-based Memorial Hospital becomes member of ProMedica system

Physicians Realty Trust closes previously announced mezzanine loan of $6.9 million

Winners and losers: Some will see big benefits from the overhaul, others may take hits

Medicare shapes what others pay for health care

Surgeons develop iPad app to capture trauma patient data in low medical resource environment

MEDNAX acquires Summit Anesthesia Associates

Industry Focus eBook - Neurology/Neuroscience - 2nd edition eBook

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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