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The surgical management of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in U.S. hospitals varies widely depending on the race of the patient, according to a new study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-racial-disparities-surgical-non-small-cell.html Cancer Tue, 21 May 2013 09:50:01 EST news288347131 An increasing number of U.S. children are experiencing gastrointestinal issues that require interventions to resolve, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-interventions-children-gi-health.html Health Sat, 18 May 2013 11:05:09 EST news288093882 The first randomised trial to compare treatments for ectopic pregnancies has found no significant differences in subsequent fertility between medical treatment and conservative surgery on one hand, and conservative or radical surgery on the other. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-fertility-ectopic-pregnancy-reassuring-evidence.html Obstetrics & gynaecology Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:00:01 EST news282333072 In contrast to the commonly adopted surveillance intervals in current abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening programs, surveillance intervals of several years may be clinically acceptable for the majority of patients with small AAA, as the smallest AAAs often do not appear to change significantly over many years, according to a meta-analysis of previous studies reported in the February 27 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-frequency-surveillance-scans-small-aneurysms.html Cardiology Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:00:03 EST news281108456 (Medical Xpress)—Weight-loss surgery is currently only offered to patients who exceed a certain BMI. However, surgical intervention could improve the health of many more people. This is shown by the Swedish Obese Subjects study carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, involving 104 patients who were operated on despite their BMI being "too low". As a result, the risk of developing diabetes was reduced by 67 percent. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-criteria-weight-loss-surgery.html Overweight and Obesity Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:40:03 EST news280491984 (Medical Xpress)—A cure for congenital sight impairment caused by lens damage is closer following research by scientists at Monash University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-petri-dish-lens-eye-treatments.html Ophthalmology Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:33:09 EST news278839953 (HealthDay)—Older individuals are more likely to have atypical presentation with urolithiasis, according to a study published in the January issue of The Journal of Urology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-older-individuals-atypical-stone.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:40:01 EST news277565470 (Medical Xpress)—According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 3 of every 100 babies in the U.S. are born with a birth defect. Among boys, one of the most common defects is the displacement of the urethral opening in the penis, a condition called hypospadias. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-mouse-mutant-path-birth-defect.html Medical research Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:42:23 EST news277551737 The Department of Defense's medical system aspires to a standard known as the "Golden Hour" that dictates that troops wounded on the battlefield are moved to advanced-level treatment facilities within the first 60 minutes of being wounded. In advance of transport, initial battlefield medical care administered by first responders is often critical to injured servicemembers' survival. In the case of internal abdominal injuries and resulting internal hemorrhaging, however, there is currently little that can be done to stanch bleeding before the patients reach necessary treatment facilities; internal wounds cannot be compressed the same way external wounds can, and tourniquets or hemostatic dressings are unsuitable because of the need to visualize the injury. The resulting blood loss often leads to death from what would otherwise be potentially survivable wounds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-darpa-foam-survival-victims-internal.html Medical research Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:04:01 EST news274435431 (HealthDay)—For women at higher risk for ovarian and/or fallopian tube cancer (OC/FTC), annual screening offers high sensitivity for detection of incident cancers, but few of these cancers are stage I or II, according to research published online Dec. 3 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-strict-ovarian-ca-screening-adherence.html Cancer Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:40:02 EST news273946539 Surgeons at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters (CHKD) have fitted a patient with a device that might eliminate the need for surgery in some patients with one of the world's most common chest deformities, pectus excavatum, often called sunken chest syndrome. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-patients-non-surgical-device-sunken-chest.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:59:48 EST news272735961 (Medical Xpress)—Enlisting newborn hearing screeners to help identify common ear deformities allows doctors to easily correct the condition without surgery before a baby leaves the hospital, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The new study is published online ahead of print in the International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-identification-newborn-congenital-ear-deformities.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:45:21 EST news267090299 After Group Health Cooperative introduced video-based "decision aids" for people with knee and hip arthritis, rates of knee and hip replacement surgeries dropped sharply: by 38 and 26 percent, respectively, over six months. The cost of caring for those patients also declined: by 12 percent to 21 percent, according to an article in the September Health Affairs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-decision-aids-surgery-arthritis.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:00:01 EST news265964898 Do you automatically assume that a headache is a brain tumor? Do you worry that a minor cut could lead to flesh-eating bacteria ravaging a limb and requiring massive surgical intervention? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-sick.html Health Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:49:35 EST news264163740 (HealthDay) -- Superficial X-ray therapy remains a viable treatment for primary basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in select patients, according to a study published online July 23 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-superficial-x-ray-viable-basal-squamous.html Cancer Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:00:01 EST news263492832 Breast cancer patients whose tumors lacked the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene (RB) had an improved pathological response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson report in a retrospective study published in a recent online issue of Clinical Cancer Research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-breast-cancer-patients-lack-rb.html Cancer Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:57 EST news262538147 A new study shows that although gastric bypass surgery reverses Type 2 diabetes in a large percentage of obese patients, the disease recurs in about 21 percent of them within three to five years. The study results will be presented Saturday at The Endocrine Society's 94th Annual Meeting in Houston. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-diabetes-weight-loss-surgery-one-fifth.html Overweight and Obesity Mon, 25 Jun 2012 09:07:17 EST news259834020 Doctors are asking parents to take extra care that their children do not swallow small magnets from toys, after two children required surgical intervention following ingestion of such small magnets. In a letter to the Lancet, Dr. Anil Thomas George and Dr Sandeep Motiwale of Queen's Medical Centre, part of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, report two separate incidents in the last 18 months of children needing surgical intervention to remove swallowed magnets. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-parents-magnet-danger-children.html Health Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:30:02 EST news259518396 Patients whose symptoms of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) start outside of the hospital setting have a higher risk of colectomy due to severe infection, according to a large multicenter study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-community-onset-clostridium-difficile-linked-higher.html Surgery Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:18:52 EST news252757058 A team at the MedUni Vienna, headed by Sebastian Apprich of the University Department of Radiodiagnostics at the High-Field Magnetic Resonance Centre of Excellence, has now discovered in collaboration with the University Department of Orthopaedics that the quality of cartilage tissue can also be determined without an invasive procedure: with the assistance of diffusion weighted imaging in a 3-Tesla scanner cartilage quality can be assessed in a much less invasive way. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-quality-cartilage-tissue-surgery.html Arthritis & Rheumatism Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:05:31 EST news252749123 Researchers at Rice University and Texas Children's Hospital have turned stem cells from amniotic fluid into cells that form blood vessels. Their success offers hope that such stem cells may be used to grow tissue patches to repair infant hearts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-scientists-infant-hearts.html Medical research Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:50:56 EST news247751446 Hospitals that do not have cardiac surgery capability can perform nonemergency angioplasty and stent implantation as safely as hospitals that do offer cardiac surgery. That is the finding of the nation's first large, randomized study to assess whether patients do just as well having nonemergency angioplasty performed at smaller, community hospitals that do not offer cardiac surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-patients-fare-nonemergency-angioplasty-hospitals.html Cardiology Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:00:49 EST news240508841 Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) undergoing surgery may be more likely to develop deep vein thrombosis (DVT; blood clot in a deep vein in the thigh or leg) or pulmonary embolism (PE; blood clot in blood vessels in the lungs) following surgical procedures, according to a study published Online First by Archives of Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-patients-inflammatory-bowel-disease-post-operative.html Inflammatory disorders Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:34:23 EST news238088039 The current ultrasound test to diagnose miscarriage in early pregnancy is based on limited evidence, raising questions about its reliability, according to a new paper published by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-urgent-diagnosis-miscarriage.html Other Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:30:02 EST news237785382 In Spain, 5-year survival following breast cancer diagnosis is more than 83%. Around 66% suffer fatigue following treatment. A Spanish research establishes the factors associated with tiredness in cancer survivors to improve their quality of life and rehabilitation. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-depression-pain-fatigue-breast-cancer.html Cancer Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:59:34 EST news235213157 Conway Fellow, Professor William Watson and Professor John Fitzpatrick, UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital recently received a translational research award for the validation of a panel of serum biomarkers to inform surgical intervention for prostate cancer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-prostate-cancer-biomarkers-closer-clinical.html Cancer Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:28:15 EST news227521664 Researchers from Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence, R.I., report that medical management may be preferred over surgery for children with orbital cellulitis, an acute infection of the tissues surrounding the eye. They have determined the criteria for surgical intervention should be dependent upon the size of a subperiosteal abscess (SPA). The research is published in the journal Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and is now available online in advance of print. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-children-eye-infections-surgery.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:04:53 EST news226746275 Women who develop cerebral aneurysms are less likely to have taken the oral contraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy, suggesting taking oestrogen could have a protective effect, reveals research published in the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-contraceptive-pill-hrt-cerebral-aneurysm.html Neuroscience Thu, 05 May 2011 04:31:29 EST news223788443