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Many emergency caesareans could be prevented

Many emergency caesareans could be prevented by the attendance of a more skilled obstetrician, say senior doctors in this week's British Medical Journal.

21 Sep 2006

Ophthalmologists improve LASIK

Ophthalmologists have developed a formula that slashes by nearly two-thirds the likelihood that patients will need repeat visits to an eye surgeon to adjust their vision after their initial LASIK visit. That's because the formula makes it more likely that surgeons will get it right the first time.

20 Sep 2006

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois adds coverage for MammoSite

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois after meeting with experts last week has decided to cover the partial-breast radiation therapy known as MammoSite for patients with early stage breast cancer, officials for the insurer said, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

20 Sep 2006

Chemotherapy, nutrition and metallic flavors

About two million cancer patients currently receiving certain drug therapies and chemotherapy find foods and beverages to have a foul metallic flavor, according to a medical study. In general, more than 40 percent of hospitalized patients suffer from malnutrition due to taste and smell dysfunction.

19 Sep 2006

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois coverage policy for partial-breast radiation therapy to be reviewed

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois' policy that it does not cover partial-breast radiation therapy was scheduled to be reviewed last Wednesday in Dallas during a three-day meeting of Health Care Service Corporation officials, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

18 Sep 2006

Quality indicators for gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures

Defining measurements and identifying quality standards in the delivery of colonoscopic care is a major priority for the nation's leading gastrointestinal endoscopic healthcare association.

13 Sep 2006

Another set of conjoined twins undergo lengthy separation surgery

In what is expected to be a long and lengthy operation, four-month-old conjoined twin boys have embarked on separation surgery in a hospital in Washington.

6 Sep 2006

Texas Medical Board adopts parental consent form

The Texas Medical Board last week adopted rules requiring physicians to gain written and notarized parental consent before performing an abortion on a minor, the Houston Chronicle reports (Ross Hughes, Houston Chronicle, 9/1).

5 Sep 2006

Endovascular repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic diseases as an alternative to open surgery in patients at high surgical risk

World Congress of Cardiology Report - Acute aortic syndromes, such as large thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms with impending rupture, complicated acute type B dissections, traumatic rupture of thoracic aorta, still represent life-threatening conditions.

5 Sep 2006

Venacavoscopy assisted inferior Vena cava thrombus resection for T3b/c renal cell carcinoma

Resection of intrahepatic and suprahepatic inferior vena cava (IVC) thrombi associated with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) can be surgically demanding procedures that can involve multidisciplinary surgical teams.

5 Sep 2006

Anastomotic fibrous ring as cause of stricture recurrence after Bulbar Onlay Graft Urethroplasty

Buccal mucosa graft onlay urethroplasty represents one of the most widespread methods for repairing strictures in the bulbar urethra.

31 Aug 2006

First legal abortion in Colombia

The first legal abortion in Colombia recently was performed following the legalization of the procedure in certain cases earlier this year, BBC News reports (McDermott, BBC News, 8/25).

30 Aug 2006

Virginian-Pilot examines uterine fibroid removal procedures

The Virginian-Pilot on Monday examined the different surgeries that can remove uterine fibroids.

24 Aug 2006

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy using the potassium titnyl phosphate laser in a porcine model

Working with an 80 watt KTP laser delivered in a noncontact mode via a 600 micron fiber, these authors successfully completed 15 laparoscopic partial nephrectomies in pigs. This was done without clamping any renal vessels.

21 Aug 2006

Cost-effectiveness of direct vision urethrotomy versus urethroplasty for short bulbar urethral strictures

Urethral stricture disease is an uncommon urologic disorder but carries significant morbidity.

17 Aug 2006

Renal transplantation in children with posterior uUrethral valves

The first description of posterior urethral valves (PUV) was made more than 80 years ago by Hugh Hampton Young and represents a spectrum of severity, ranging from disease incompatible with postnatal life to minimal symptoms that may not manifest until later in life.

17 Aug 2006

Ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy for upper urinary tract calculi with active fragment extraction

In this study, the authors have changed the paradigm for ureteroscopic stone removal in several ways:

15 Aug 2006

Cancer patient receives first proton therapy treatment

A Cocoa Beach man with prostate cancer has become the first patient to undergo treatment at the new University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, the first time the most advanced form of radiation therapy available has been offered in the Southeast.

15 Aug 2006

Conjoined twin sisters survive lengthy, complex surgery

A team of six surgeons in the U.S., after 25 hours of complex surgery have successfully separated four-year-old conjoined twin sisters.

9 Aug 2006

3-year-old Iraqi girl arrives in the U.S. to receive cochlear implant

Amina is a 3-year-old Iraqi girl born with Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss, which means total deafness.

4 Aug 2006

Medical Procedure News

Many emergency caesareans could be prevented

Ophthalmologists improve LASIK

BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois adds coverage for MammoSite

Chemotherapy, nutrition and metallic flavors

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois coverage policy for partial-breast radiation therapy to be reviewed

Quality indicators for gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures

Another set of conjoined twins undergo lengthy separation surgery

Texas Medical Board adopts parental consent form

Endovascular repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic diseases as an alternative to open surgery in patients at high surgical risk

Venacavoscopy assisted inferior Vena cava thrombus resection for T3b/c renal cell carcinoma

Anastomotic fibrous ring as cause of stricture recurrence after Bulbar Onlay Graft Urethroplasty

First legal abortion in Colombia

Virginian-Pilot examines uterine fibroid removal procedures

Laparoscopic partial nephrectomy using the potassium titnyl phosphate laser in a porcine model

Cost-effectiveness of direct vision urethrotomy versus urethroplasty for short bulbar urethral strictures

Renal transplantation in children with posterior uUrethral valves

Ureteroscopic laser lithotripsy for upper urinary tract calculi with active fragment extraction

Cancer patient receives first proton therapy treatment

Conjoined twin sisters survive lengthy, complex surgery

3-year-old Iraqi girl arrives in the U.S. to receive cochlear implant

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