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Wrist Acupuncture or Acupressure Prevents Nausea From Anesthesia
• Alternative Medicine • • Surgery • Apr 15 09
Up to 80 percent of patients who have surgery complain of nausea and vomiting afterwards, but stimulating an acupoint in their wrists can…
Clinic-Owner Urologists Perform More Surgeries Than Peers
• Surgery • • Urine Problems • Mar 28 09
A new study finds that Florida urologists who own outpatient surgery clinics perform more kidney-stone surgeries than their colleagues do, raising questions about whether…
Silicone Ear Looks Just Like the Real Thing
• Ear / Nose / Throat • • Surgery • Mar 18 09
To look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear.
A surgery at Loyola University Health System…
Patients who gave up smoking before surgery had half as many complications afterwards
• Surgery • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 12 09
More than a third of patients who took part in an eight-week smoking cessation programme before and after planned surgery were able to give…
Weighing the Options after Life-Altering Stroke
• Surgery • • Stroke • Mar 12 09
Choosing to have aggressive brain surgery after suffering a severe stroke generally improves the patients’ lives and allows them to live longer, according to…
Never Ending Pursuit - Advancing Patient Safety, Satisfaction Throughout the Surgical Experience
• Surgery • Mar 09 09
In recognition of National Patient Safety Week March 8-14 the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the Anesthesia Awareness Campaign, are working together to…
Light anesthesia linked with awareness in surgery
• Surgery • Feb 27 09
While the number of patients who report awareness during surgery general anesthesia is low, there are several factors that appear to increase the risk,…
Gallbladder Revmoal Through Vagina Offers Minimally Invasive Alternative
• Surgery • Feb 25 09
Physicians at Northwestern Memorial Hospital successfully removed a patient’s gallbladder through the vagina, making them the first in the Midwest and the third in…
Not Too Old for Joint Replacement
• Rheumatic Diseases • • Surgery • Feb 25 09
Knee replacement surgery can improve the quality of life even for very elderly patients, according to a study presented today at the 2009 Annual…
Children and Orthopaedic Surgical Emergencies
• Children's Health • • Emergencies / First Aid • • Surgery • • Trauma & Injuries • Feb 25 09
Severe musculoskeletal conditions in children include bone and joint infections, a hip problem known as slipped epiphysis, and elbow fractures. These can lead…
When to Have That Joint Replacement?
• Arthritis • • Surgery • Feb 25 09
Hispanic and African-American patients tend to have poorer joint function before undergoing hip or knee replacement surgery, according to a new study presented…
Getting on the Ball, Post-ACL Surgery
• Surgery • Feb 25 09
Most competitive high school athletes receiving anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery are able to return to their sport at the same level, and…
Researchers Explore New Driver of Transplant Rejection: Platelets
• Public Health • • Surgery • Feb 17 09
Platelets, tiny and relatively uncharted tenants of the bloodstream known mostly for their role in blood clotting, turn out to also rally sustained…
Survival after surgical complications appears better at teaching hospitals for whites but not blacks
• Surgery • Feb 17 09
Survival after surgery appears higher at teaching hospitals than at non-teaching hospitals, but this benefit is experienced by white patients and not black patients,…
White Patients Have Better Surgical Survival than Blacks in Teaching Hospitals
• Public Health • • Surgery • Feb 16 09
Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur…
Surgery often unnecessary for low back pain
• Backache • • Surgery • Feb 14 09
Many people with lower back pain caused by spinal disc degeneration need not resort to surgery for relief, according to a research review.
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New Surgical Option for Wrist Arthritis
• Arthritis • • Surgery • Feb 14 09
Breaking a fall, such as a tumble on the sidewalk, with your hands and wrists is everyone’s natural reflex. But, if you fall hard…
Treating appendicitis by laparoscopic surgery may not be worth the cost
• Surgery • Feb 03 09
New research published in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons suggests that a traditional, “open” appendectomy may be…
Study Examines Impact of Managed Care on Stroke Prevention Surgery
• Neurology • • Stroke • • Surgery • Dec 29 08
Policymakers and economists often promote managed-care plans based on the assumption that they prevent the overuse of unnecessary surgical procedures or help steer patients…
Woman gets near-total face transplant in Cleveland
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • Dec 22 08
A woman who had suffered severe facial trauma got essentially a whole new face in a first-of-its-kind operation at the Cleveland Clinic, hospital…
Irkutsk-based surgeons performed a unique operation
• Surgery • Dec 22 08
On August 11th, a very unusual child was born. The baby-boy was named Nikita. Another body was growing on the baby’s stomach - it…
New Surgery Shows Promise in Treatment of Scoliosis
• Surgery • Dec 01 08
Since the time Tricia Ann Vinson was first diagnosed with scoliosis in sixth grade, the condition had become increasingly painful and debilitating.
Vinson—now 23—started…
Plastic surgeons warn of malnutrition in body contouring patients
• Cosmetics • • Surgery • • Weight Loss • Nov 14 08
Identifying malnutrition before surgery in massive weight loss patients seeking body contouring will significantly decrease surgical complications, accelerate wound healing, improve scar quality and…
Surgeons Use Exciting New Tools to Provide Safer, Cost-Effective Care
• Surgery • Oct 15 08
Two studies presented at the 2008 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons demonstrate how surgeons are using existing materials in innovative ways.…
More hand-washing won’t curb hospital infections
• Infections • • Surgery • Sep 17 08
Although hand hygiene is an important method of hospital infection control, increasing the frequency of hand washing by doctors and other healthcare workers does…