News articles tagged with 'surgery'
Study shows that modern surgery for scoliosis has good long-term outcomes
— 6 Apr 2011 16:07 | HealthTeenagers who undergo spine fusion for scoliosis using the newest surgical techniques can expect to be doing well 10 years after surgery, according to a Hospital for Special Surgery…
New tool helps surgeons predict patients' risk of complications after bariatric operations
— 4 Apr 2011 18:18 | HealthA new risk calculator can predict the risk of postoperative complications occurring for individual bariatric surgery patients, according to a study published in the March issue of the…
More women medical students select general surgery and continue to close the gender gap
— 4 Apr 2011 18:15 | HealthThe gender gap among United States Medical Graduates (USMG) in the traditionally male-dominated speciality of general surgery is shrinking, according to study results published in the…
Case study reports singing lowers patient's blood pressure prior to surgery
— 30 Mar 2011 17:04 | HealthDoctors report that singing reduced the blood pressure of a 76-year-old woman who had experienced severe preoperative hypertension prior to total knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis…
A new method to localize the epileptic focus in severe epilepsy
— 30 Mar 2011 16:52 | HealthThe first two stereo-EEG explorations in Finland were carried out by neurosurgeons of the Epilepsy surgery team in Helsinki University Central Hospital this spring. The method reinforces…
Weight loss surgery can significantly improve migraines, according to Miriam Hospital study
— 29 Mar 2011 17:23 | HealthBariatric surgery may provide an added benefit to severely obese patients besides weight loss: it can also help alleviate the excruciating pain of migraine headaches, according to new…
Long-term study: Robot-assisted prostate surgery is safe
— 28 Mar 2011 17:22 | HealthIn the first study of its kind, urologists and biostatisticians at Henry Ford Hospital have found that robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is safe over the long…
Scientists ID possible biomarker to gauge Alzheimer's prognosis, effect of therapies
— 18 Mar 2011 14:29 | HealthUCLA researchers have identified a new biomarker that could help them track how effectively the immune system is able to clear the brain of amyloid beta, which forms the plaques considered…
Study: 'Meaningful improvements' using gene therapy in Parkinson's disease
— 17 Mar 2011 20:19 | HealthA first-of-its-kind study of gene therapy in the treatment of Parkinson's disease determined that half of all patients who received the treatment had 'clinically meaningful improvements'…
Inflammation behind heart valve disease
— 15 Mar 2011 20:47 | HealthResearch from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows, that a specific inflammatory factor may be important in the development of the heart valve disease aortic stenosis. The results…