http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. The Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group is pleased to announce publication of two new studies on dabigatran etexilate (Pradaxa®) and intracranial hemorrhage: one in the Journal of Neurosurgery and the other in Neurosurgical Focus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-papers-dabigatran-etexilate-pradaxa-intracranial.html Surgery Wed, 01 May 2013 10:34:33 EST news286623265 The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-war-medicine-boston-victims.html Other Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:52:19 EST news285479521 An acute care surgery model led to improvement in the quality of surgical patient care and reduced the cost of emergency surgical care at Loma Linda University Medical Center, report researchers who published their findings in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-acute-surgical-quality-lowers-procedures.html Surgery Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:45:52 EST news271521942 (Medical Xpress)—Lack of control over operating rooms and other resources as well as a lack of work-life balance are among the main reasons general surgeons may be dissatisfied with their jobs, a new study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-surgeons-happy.html Surgery Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:19:47 EST news268049978 (Medical Xpress)—With traumatic injuries claiming almost six million lives a year, improvements in care, including in the challenging areas of brain and bone injuries, and haemorrhage, are urgently needed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-advancing-treatment-trauma.html Health Fri, 21 Sep 2012 07:40:01 EST news267431207 (Medical Xpress) -- Drinking and driving is a much-publicized, dangerous combination, but is walking after drinking any safer? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-perils-drunken.html Health Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:34:22 EST news242634848 An 86-year-old American has made a stunning recovery after a gardening accident left him with a pair of pruning shears impaled through an eye socket deep into his skull. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-survives-pruning-eye-socket.html Other Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:45:52 EST news234020735 San Francisco General Hospital trauma surgeon Rochelle Dicker has treated many pedestrians who ended up in the emergency room after being struck by vehicles. She never refers to those collisions as accidents. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-trauma-surgeon-injuries-san-francisco.html Health Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:50:09 EST news232103156