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Palomar Medical introduces Artisan Aesthetic System to provide laser skin resurfacing treatment

Palomar Medical Technologies, a leading researcher and developer of lasers and pulsed-light systems for aesthetic treatments, is pleased to announce that the Artisan Aesthetic System is now being shipped.

18 Jan 2011

Time constraints, patient embarrassment prevent full-body skin cancer examinations

Time constraints, other illnesses and patient embarrassment may prevent dermatologists, internists and family practitioners from conducting full-body skin examinations, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, dermatologists are significantly more likely than internists and family practitioners to conduct such screenings.

18 Jan 2011

6.3% of surgeons report suicidal thoughts

As many as one in 16 surgeons reported having suicidal thoughts in the previous year, but few sought help from a mental health clinician, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

18 Jan 2011

American Heart Association honors SBUMC with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award

Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the 2009 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.

18 Jan 2011

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

The ongoing controversy about the appropriate age, frequency, and patient benefit of mammography will be explored at the upcoming 19th Annual Congress on Women's Health, April 1-3, 2011 in Washington DC.

18 Jan 2011

Media look at what's ahead for South Sudan

"This week's independence referendum in southern Sudan marks an apparent victory for U.S. foreign policy in east Africa - one that has secured for Washington a deeper advisory role in what is expected to be the birth of a new, impoverished nation," according to a Wall Street Journal article looking at the issues facing the U.S. in south Sudan after voting concludes.

18 Jan 2011

Seordus recieves Japanese patent for SER100

The Norwegian cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company Seordus AS today announced that the Japanese Patent Office has granted a patent for Japan covering Serodus' proprietary product SER100, an ORL-1 receptor agonist, which Serodus intends to develop for patients with isolated systolic hypertension.

18 Jan 2011

Safely Home program helps police find and return individuals with dementia to their homes

Wandering, one of most dangerous side effects of Alzheimer's disease, recently took the life of a 66-year-old woman who was found frozen to death near her Scarborough home.

18 Jan 2011

Follow-up program for high-risk patients appears to detect melanomas at early stages

A follow-up program for patients at high risk of developing skin cancer appears to be associated with the detection of melanomas at early stages and with good prognosis, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

18 Jan 2011

New guideline recommends plasmapheresis usage to treat people with severe relapses in MS, neuropathies

A new guideline from the American Academy of Neurology recommends using plasma exchange to treat people with severe relapses in multiple sclerosis and related diseases, as well as those with certain kinds of nerve disorders known as neuropathies.

18 Jan 2011

Drug-coated stents hold promise for treatment of clogged leg arteries

Drug-coated stents hold promise as a safe and lasting solution for the treatment of clogged leg arteries, suggest two-year results of the Zilver PTX Trial being presented at the 23rd annual International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET). Blocked leg arteries are a symptom of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which affects 8 to 12 million Americans.

18 Jan 2011

'Master switch' protein in white blood cells linked to inflammation

Scientists have identified a protein that acts as a "master switch" in certain white blood cells, determining whether they promote or inhibit inflammation. The study, published in the journal Nature Immunology, could help researchers look for new treatments for diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis that involve excessive inflammation.

18 Jan 2011

Bathing tumor-ridden livers in chemotherapy increases survival time

Bathing tumor-ridden livers in chemotherapy increases the length of time certain cancer patients survive without progression of the disease, according to Phase III trial results being presented at the 3rd annual Symposium on Clinical Interventional Oncology (CIO), in collaboration with the International Symposium on Endovascular Therapy (ISET).

18 Jan 2011

Vaccine to prevent MRSA infections after bone and joint surgery

University of Rochester Medical Center orthopaedic scientists are a step closer to developing a vaccine to prevent life-threatening methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections following bone and joint surgery.

18 Jan 2011

Heart disease patients' skin cells may help test long QT syndrome

Skin cells from a patient with an inherited heart disease were the seeds of a stem cell experiment that could help researchers test specific treatments for the disease, known as long QT syndrome. The research results appear in the January 16 issue of the journal Nature.

18 Jan 2011

Rotator cuff surgery does not fully restore normal shoulder motion, strength: Study

Shoulder motion after rotator cuff surgery remains significantly different when compared to the patient's opposite shoulder, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study.

18 Jan 2011

AHRQ reports 1 in 5 Americans have no usual source of medical care

Roughly 60 million people -- 1 in 5 Americans -- have no usual source of medical care, such as a family doctor or clinic, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

18 Jan 2011

Scientists create GM chicken that does not spread bird flu to other chickens

"Scientists have developed genetically modified [GM] chickens that don't transmit bird flu [H5N1] to other chickens," HealthDay News/Bloomberg Businessweek reports.

18 Jan 2011

US market for orthopedic extremity devices to grow at 10% CAGR to $4.6 billion by 2015

According to Millennium Research Group, the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the prosperity of the US market for orthopedic extremity devices will be bolstered by continued product innovation and surgeon specialization. Despite sluggish economic performance in the US market and impending regulatory changes imposed by health care reform, the US orthopedic extremity device market will generate over $4.6 billion in revenues by 2015, growing at a compound annual growth rate in excess of 10%.

18 Jan 2011

Researchers present new findings on role of relationship between patient and therapist

This study published in the last 2010 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that therapist and patient ratings of therapeutic alliance predict therapeutic progress.

18 Jan 2011

Medical News

Palomar Medical introduces Artisan Aesthetic System to provide laser skin resurfacing treatment

Time constraints, patient embarrassment prevent full-body skin cancer examinations

6.3% of surgeons report suicidal thoughts

American Heart Association honors SBUMC with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

Media look at what's ahead for South Sudan

Seordus recieves Japanese patent for SER100

Safely Home program helps police find and return individuals with dementia to their homes

Follow-up program for high-risk patients appears to detect melanomas at early stages

New guideline recommends plasmapheresis usage to treat people with severe relapses in MS, neuropathies

Drug-coated stents hold promise for treatment of clogged leg arteries

'Master switch' protein in white blood cells linked to inflammation

Bathing tumor-ridden livers in chemotherapy increases survival time

Vaccine to prevent MRSA infections after bone and joint surgery

Heart disease patients' skin cells may help test long QT syndrome

Rotator cuff surgery does not fully restore normal shoulder motion, strength: Study

AHRQ reports 1 in 5 Americans have no usual source of medical care

Scientists create GM chicken that does not spread bird flu to other chickens

US market for orthopedic extremity devices to grow at 10% CAGR to $4.6 billion by 2015

Researchers present new findings on role of relationship between patient and therapist

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