May 31, 2013
Dr. Kemp Kernstine, chief of thoracic surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, said robotically assisted surgical procedures, as opposed to traditional open surgeries, allow for small and sometimes miniaturized instruments to maneuver in hard-to-reach internal … Read More
May 31, 2013
While measles itself is rarely fatal, it can lead to life-threatening complications such as meningitis and pneumonia, particularly in developing countries where malnutrition leaves many children with low immunity…The epidemic has spread rapidly with thousands of cases nationwide and 239 … Read More
May 31, 2013
The new health care law is injecting more competition into health insurance markets nationwide, drawing additional insurance companies into states long dominated by a few carriers, Obama administration officials said Thursday. (New York Times)
May 31, 2013
The top-selling class of blood-pressure drugs is under attack from an unusual source: a senior regulator at the Food and Drug Administration. (The Wall Street Journal)
May 31, 2013
Drooping eyelids may seem like an inevitable effect of getting older, but sagging eyelids not only age a person’s face, they can impair peripheral vision too. Removing the excess skin through surgery can both improve vision and result in a … Read More
May 31, 2013
Girls and women in the developing world are losing the fight against cervical cancer because we have failed to close deadly gaps in prevention, screening and treatment that could spare their lives and end this disease. More than 85 percent … Read More
May 31, 2013
The first reported case of a British person choosing to end their own life at a centre in Switzerland because they had dementia has taken place. (BBC)
May 31, 2013
The standard of palliative care provided for those approaching the end of their lives varies greatly, according to the first comprehensive European overview of the service. (Medical Xpress)
May 31, 2013
The Brain Initiative is combining neuroscience with nanotechnology in the world’s biggest project to understand the mind. (The Guardian)
May 31, 2013
Researchers have been given a licence to use stem cells to manufacture blood that could eventually be tested on people. Synthetic blood would help end supply shortages and prevent infections being passed on through donations. (BBC)
May 31, 2013
The wife of a Philadelphia doctor convicted of murdering babies during late-term abortions was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 23 months in prison for helping her husband. (Reuters)
May 31, 2013
Stent angioplasty saves lives, but there often are side effects and complications related to the procedure, such as arterial restenosis and thrombosis. In the June 2013 issue of The FASEB Journal, however, scientists report that they have discovered a new … Read More
May 30, 2013
The European Commission is launching legal action against Spain over the refusal of some hospitals to recognise the European Health Insurance Card. The EHIC entitles EU citizens to free healthcare in public hospitals. But some Spanish hospitals rejected the card … Read More
May 30, 2013
Ken Tada married Joni Eareckson in 1982 for better, for worse and for all the things that were uniquely her — including the fact that she was a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. (ABC News)
May 30, 2013
The problem is in how success is measured, which is not in the soft currency of ethics or trust, but in how much money the strategy saves for the institution. If it pays for everyone to keep quiet, that’s what … Read More
May 30, 2013
As Congress mulls changing America’s border and naturalization rules, a study finds that immigrant workers are helping buttress Medicare’s finances, because they contribute billions a year more than immigrant retirees use in medical services. (Washington Post)
May 30, 2013
Scientists are recruiting 64 healthy adult volunteers for the trial, which is expected to take up to two years. The work will be split equally between London, the Rwandan capital Kigali and Nairobi in Kenya. This early trial is being … Read More
May 30, 2013
El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled Wednesday against allowing a young woman to have an abortion, which her doctors and lawyers argue is necessary to save her life. (CBS News)
May 30, 2013
Dr. Henry Morgentaler, Canada’s most heralded and vilified abortion doctor, who was assaulted and imprisoned for defying restrictive laws but who won the landmark Canadian Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationally in 1988, died on Tuesday at his home … Read More
May 30, 2013
The agency’s new campaign, which features provocative images of “pregnant” teenage boys in an effort to “spark citywide conversations,” has gained national attention with features on Jezebel, the Daily Mail, AdWeek and more — but will it be effective in … Read More
May 30, 2013
Researchers said Wednesday they have developed a gene-therapy technique that in animal studies provided broad protection against flu viruses linked to deadly human pandemics. If verified in people, the approach could become an important tool in the effort to ward … Read More
May 30, 2013
Researchers from New York Medical College and the University of California Davis have for the first time codified age-specific probabilities of live birth after in vitro fertilization (IVF) with frozen eggs. A team of researchers led by Kutluk Oktay, M.D., … Read More
May 30, 2013
In the same month that Vermont became the fourth state to legalize physician-assisted suicide, a May 2-7 Gallup survey finds 70% of Americans in favor of allowing doctors to hasten a terminally ill patient’s death when the matter is described … Read More
May 30, 2013
THE euthanasia group headed by “doctor death” Philip Nitschke, is appointing a travel agent to organise trips for Australians planning to end their lives overseas. (News.com.au)
May 30, 2013
Researchers from China have now reported that stem cell generation can be regulated by the precise temporal expression of these factors. Publishing in the journal Nature Cell Biology, they show that the efficiency and yield of stem cells can be … Read More
