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SAGE announces launch of new international open access journal of sports medicine

SAGE today announces the launch of a new international open access journal, the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine. This journal was developed by the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine in collaboration with professional sports medicine organizations from around the world as a global, peer-reviewed open access journal that will publish content for both researchers and practitioners studying orthopeadic sports medicine, arthroscopy, and knee arthroplasty.

5 May 2013

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

During the past 15 years, the number of critical access hospitals – those with fewer than 25 acute care beds that receive higher reimbursements and other considerations from Medicare to help sustain them – has increased substantially, representing a quarter of all U.S. acute care hospitals in 2011.

4 May 2013

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley signed three laws Thursday that will give more protection for patients. The measures provide more state oversight of cosmetic surgery centers, pharmacies that make sterile medications and staffing agencies that find temporary jobs for health care professionals (Sun, 5/2).

4 May 2013

Children admitted in out-of-hours emergencies are at no greater risk of dying

Children admitted to UK intensive care units in out-of-hours emergencies are at no greater risk of dying than children arriving during normal working hours, according to new research.

3 May 2013

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Today's headlines include a variety of stories about the health law's implementation, including reports about the Medicaid expansion's red state prospects.

3 May 2013

Regional anesthesia improves outcomes in sleep apnea patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty

Using regional anesthesia instead of general anesthesia in patients with sleep apnea undergoing total joint replacement decreases major complications by 17%, according to a study published online, ahead of print, in the journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine.

3 May 2013

Weekend reading: Overweight doctors; ADHD diagnosis wars; States cut treatment for mentally ill; The war on breast cancer

Recently, a survey of three decades of screening published in November in The New England Journal of Medicine found that mammography's impact is decidedly mixed: it does reduce, by a small percentage, the number of women who are told they have late-stage cancer, but it is far more likely to result in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, including surgery, weeks of radiation and potentially toxic drugs.

3 May 2013

UAB study evaluates crash risk for elderly drivers who always drive with pets

Senior drivers who always take a pet in the car are at increased risk for being involved in a motor vehicle collision, said University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers.

3 May 2013

Men who take statins are less likely to die from prostate cancer, study finds

Men with prostate cancer who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins are significantly less likely to die from their cancer than men who don't take such medication, according to study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

3 May 2013

New findings to benefit women with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer

A new analysis has provided a comprehensive comparison of scores designed to predict which women with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer are at high risk of recurrence beyond five years after diagnosis, and may benefit from prolonged endocrine treatment.

3 May 2013

Cancer Genetics introduces proprietary urogenital cancer array for diagnosing kidney cancer

Cancer Genetics, Inc., a leader in oncology-focused personalized medicine, has launched a proprietary urogenital cancer array, UroGenRA, intended for kidney cancer diagnosis and subtyping in its own laboratory.

3 May 2013

Researchers find association between DCIS Score and risk of developing IBE

The ductal carcinoma in situ Score quantifies the risk of ipsilateral breast event and invasive IBE risk, complements both traditional clinical and pathologic factors, and helps provide a new clinical tool to improve the process of selecting individualized treatment for women with DCIS who meet the criteria, according to a study published May 2 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

3 May 2013

LAP-BAND-weight loss procedure safe and effective for obese people

The LAP-BAND- weight loss procedure is safe and effective in an expanded group of patients, not just in people who are morbidly obese. This conclusion is reported in a new study published in the scientific journal Obesity. The findings indicate that the procedure may help to intervene before obesity becomes life threatening to patients.

2 May 2013

Study may help diagnose endometrial cancer and lead to new drug development

Endometrial tumors can be reclassified into distinct subtypes based partly on their genomic makeup and may respond to targeted drugs already being tested in clinical trials, according to a large-scale genomic analysis led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and other centers within The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network.

2 May 2013

Neuraxial anesthesia improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

2 May 2013

Study: 98% of women are satisfied with breast augmentation results

Ninety-eight percent of women undergoing breast augmentation surgery say the results met or exceeded their expectations, according to a prospective outcome study published in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery-, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

2 May 2013

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals reports clinical results of Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System for acute pain treatment

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain, today reported additional clinical results for its lead product candidate, the Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System for the treatment of moderate-to-severe acute pain in the hospital setting.

2 May 2013

Surefire Infusion System to be used for obesity treatment

Surefire Medical, Inc., the developer of a new class of infusion systems designed to maximize targeted delivery of embolization agents without reflux, today announced that the company's Surefire Infusion System will be used in the development of the first clinically viable microcatheter-based, minimally invasive treatment for obesity as an alternative to bariatric surgery.

2 May 2013

Survey: Half of U.S. plastic surgeons use social media platforms in their professional practice

Half of U.S. plastic surgeons are using Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms in their professional practice, according to a survey in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

2 May 2013

ABA honors Loyola's Burn & Shock Trauma Institute director with President's Leadership Award

Richard L. Gamelli, MD, FACS, senior vice president and provost of the Health Sciences Division at Loyola University Chicago, has been awarded the President's Leadership Award from the American Burn Association.

2 May 2013

Surgery News and Research

SAGE announces launch of new international open access journal of sports medicine

Research roundup: Surgical care at critical access hospitals; Digging into the cost of emergency medicine; Getting what you want for end-of-life care

Highlights: New health care oversight laws in Md.; Texas hospitals negotiate over uncompensated care payments; Colo. considers psychiatric hospital for homeless

Children admitted in out-of-hours emergencies are at no greater risk of dying

First Edition: May 3, 2013

Regional anesthesia improves outcomes in sleep apnea patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty

Weekend reading: Overweight doctors; ADHD diagnosis wars; States cut treatment for mentally ill; The war on breast cancer

UAB study evaluates crash risk for elderly drivers who always drive with pets

Men who take statins are less likely to die from prostate cancer, study finds

New findings to benefit women with oestrogen-receptor positive breast cancer

Cancer Genetics introduces proprietary urogenital cancer array for diagnosing kidney cancer

Researchers find association between DCIS Score and risk of developing IBE

LAP-BAND-weight loss procedure safe and effective for obese people

Study may help diagnose endometrial cancer and lead to new drug development

Neuraxial anesthesia improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement

Study: 98% of women are satisfied with breast augmentation results

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals reports clinical results of Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System for acute pain treatment

Surefire Infusion System to be used for obesity treatment

Survey: Half of U.S. plastic surgeons use social media platforms in their professional practice

ABA honors Loyola's Burn & Shock Trauma Institute director with President's Leadership Award

Event guide: 4th Extra-Hepatic Lipid-Based Nanoparticles Delivery Summit 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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