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Inflammation plays an important role in post-operative stroke

Duke University Medical Center researchers have discovered that patients who have two specific gene variants are more than three times as likely to suffer a stroke after heart surgery.

26 Aug 2005

No show patients cost the health service millions each year

According to a new survey, missed appointments costs the National Health Service in the UK £21m.

25 Aug 2005

Drug Cytotec as good as surgery at expelling tissue following failed pregnancy

According to test results just released, the drug Cytotec is almost as effective as surgery for removing tissue that can remain in the uterus after a failed pregnancy.

25 Aug 2005

Stem cells with heart bypass surgery trial to begin

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been granted approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct a clinical trial to determine the safety and feasibility of injecting a patient's own bone marrow-derived stem cells directly into the heart during conventional heart bypass surgery.

25 Aug 2005

Coronary angioplasty increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers have discovered that patients who have either coronary artery bypass graft surgery or coronary angioplasty are at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

25 Aug 2005

Experimental immunusuppressant drug preserves transplanted kidneys

An international team of transplant physicians has shown that the investigational drug belatacept (LEA29Y) preserves transplanted kidney function as effectively as cyclosporine, the drug most commonly used to prevent the immune system from rejecting transplanted organs.

24 Aug 2005

New drug that selectively blocks immune responses protects kidneys after transplant

In an international clinical trial, a new drug that selectively blocks immune responses has proved as effective in preventing acute kidney transplant rejection as cyclosporine, the standard anti-rejection treatment.

24 Aug 2005

Private health screening bonanza as thousands of Brits take unnecessary tests

According to doctors in the UK, thousands of healthy people, encouraged by celebrity endorsements, are having expensive private medical tests done which they do not need and may even be doing them harm.

24 Aug 2005

A preoperative testing strategy may help determine stage of lung cancer more accurately

A preoperative testing strategy combining two procedures may help improve the accuracy of determining the stage of lung cancer, according to an article in the August 24/31 issue of JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.

23 Aug 2005

Sentinel node biopsy, when performed before chemotherapy to shrink the tumor, is very reliable

New breast cancer research shows for the first time that even women with large breast tumors can benefit from a less invasive biopsy method that has been reserved until now for women with small breast cancers.

23 Aug 2005

Women think very rationally about breast cancer surgery from their own perspectives

When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, her top priority is to get the cancer out and reduce the odds that it will ever return. But for some women just getting the cancer out doesn't feel like enough.

22 Aug 2005

Nearly one-third of former brain tumor patients require special education services

Children who survive brain cancer struggle for years with the malevolent echo of the disease and its treatment, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

22 Aug 2005

Researchers test experimental drug Neuprex on infants undergoing heart surgery

UT Southwestern Medical Center is the only institution in the nation approved by the Food and Drug Administration to test an experimental drug on infants undergoing heart surgery to see whether it can help them avoid potentially lethal infections and improve survival.

22 Aug 2005

Best treatment for the immobilizing trauma of spinal cord compression in metastatic cancer

In this week's Lancet, Patchell's UK research team evaluate traditional surgical and radiation therapy options and conclude that direct decompressive surgery plus postoperative radiotherapy is more effective than either radiotherapy alone or other surgical options.

22 Aug 2005

Medulloblastoma irradiation may impair reading skills in young children

Irradiation therapy for the brain cancer medulloblastoma is more likely to impair IQ and reading skills of younger children than older children even if the dose of radiation is reduced, according to the results of the largest study of its kind, conducted by investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Texas Children's Cancer Center (Houston) and Royal Children's Hospital (Melbourne, Australia).

22 Aug 2005

Heart surgery safe and successful for many 80 year olds

According to a new report, cardiac surgery can be safely performed in octogenarians and may improve their life expectancy.

21 Aug 2005

Separate studies produce conflicting results on race and gender disparities in U.S. health system

Two newly released studies in the U.S. have to some extent come to conflicting results. According to one study, by researchers at Emory University, attempts over the last decade to address race and gender disparities in the treatment of U.S. patients hospitalized for heart attacks, still in some respects raise cause for concern.

18 Aug 2005

Doctors should not shy away from giving 80 year olds heart bypass surgery

...suggests research published ahead of print in Heart. Most of those who received the treatment were still alive five years later and had half the risk of death of their peers in the general population, the research reveals.

17 Aug 2005

Women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography have a significantly better prognosis

Women whose breast cancer was detected by screening mammography had a significantly better prognosis than those whose cancer was found another way - even if the cancer had already spread to their lymph nodes, say researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center who looked at outcomes from randomized screening studies of more than 150,000 women.

17 Aug 2005

Mission to teach patients about modern treatments for sinusitis

Coughing, headaches, fatigue, post-nasal drip and intense pressure throughout the face. For millions of Americans, these aren't just the side effects of a short bout with the flu, but what they experience every day living with sinusitis.

16 Aug 2005

Surgery News and Research

Inflammation plays an important role in post-operative stroke

No show patients cost the health service millions each year

Drug Cytotec as good as surgery at expelling tissue following failed pregnancy

Stem cells with heart bypass surgery trial to begin

Coronary angioplasty increases risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

Experimental immunusuppressant drug preserves transplanted kidneys

New drug that selectively blocks immune responses protects kidneys after transplant

Private health screening bonanza as thousands of Brits take unnecessary tests

A preoperative testing strategy may help determine stage of lung cancer more accurately

Sentinel node biopsy, when performed before chemotherapy to shrink the tumor, is very reliable

Women think very rationally about breast cancer surgery from their own perspectives

Nearly one-third of former brain tumor patients require special education services

Researchers test experimental drug Neuprex on infants undergoing heart surgery

Best treatment for the immobilizing trauma of spinal cord compression in metastatic cancer

Medulloblastoma irradiation may impair reading skills in young children

Heart surgery safe and successful for many 80 year olds

Separate studies produce conflicting results on race and gender disparities in U.S. health system

Doctors should not shy away from giving 80 year olds heart bypass surgery

Women whose breast cancer is detected by mammography have a significantly better prognosis

Mission to teach patients about modern treatments for sinusitis

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

Examining how pain could play a direct protective role in the gut

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