http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A new study suggests that surgery for appendicitis that uses a pinhole incision through the navel may be a feasible alternative to traditional appendectomies. Published early online in the British Journal of Surgery, the findings indicate that larger studies to test the potential of the procedure are warranted. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-appendix-scarless-surgery-navel.html Surgery Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:00:02 EST news284832220 Antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli (E. coli) continues to proliferate, driven largely by expansion of a strain of E. coli know as sequence type ST131. A new study points to hospitals and long-term care facilities (LTCF) as settings in which this antibiotic-resistant strain is increasingly found. The study is published in the April issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-antibiotic-resistant-strain-coli-older-adults.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:14:27 EST news282312860 Medical-grade manuka honey (Medihoney), when used together with antibiotics, can both improve the effectiveness of the antibiotics and can prevent the emergence of resistance, according to new findings by UTS researchers. The findings suggest it could be a new weapon in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria such as the superbug MRSA (golden staph). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-bacteria-bees-antibiotics-honey.html Medications Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:40:01 EST news281696141 In a research review article published in the American Journal of Nephrology, Saint Louis University investigators examined data from multiple studies to better understand how obesity, an epidemic in the U.S., impacts kidney transplant patients. The authors report that, even as some connections between weight and health outcomes are unknown or contradictory, there is evidence that obese kidney transplant patients don't do as well after surgery, experiencing more adverse outcomes, including wound infections, delayed graft function, graft failure, cardiac disease and increased costs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-patients-heavy-kidney.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:44:20 EST news277389754 Cardiothoracic surgeons and endocrinologists from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, achieving Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) benchmarks for glycemic control may be irrelevant when perioperative continuous insulin infusion protocols are implemented. These findings appear on-line in the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-relevance-scip-benchmarks-cabg-patients.html Surgery Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:17:47 EST news271689458 An observational study of nearly 1 million patients who underwent surgery suggests that preoperative hyponatremia (an electrolyte disorder in which sodium levels in the blood are low) was associated with an increased risk of complications and death within 30 days of surgery, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-links-hyponatremia-death-complications-surgery.html Surgery Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:00:03 EST news266501246 (HealthDay)—For patients with severe and rigid scoliosis and low body weight, a two-stage vertebral column resection (VCR) procedure with posterior pedicle screw instrumentation can achieve good correction of scoliosis, according to a study published online Aug. 20 in The Spine Journal. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-procedure-aids-severe-rigid-scoliosis.html Addiction Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:40:01 EST news265033574 Cardiothoracic surgeons and endocrinologists from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, achieving Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) benchmarks for glycemic control may be irrelevant when perioperative continuous insulin infusion protocols are implemented. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-relevance-benchmarks-cabg-patients-insulin.html Cardiology Wed, 02 May 2012 02:57:28 EST news255146163 A two-year effort to prevent infections in children healing from cardiac surgery reduced sternum infections by 61 percent, a San Antonio researcher announced at the Cardiology 2012 conference Feb. 23 in Orlando, Fla. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-protocol-sternal-wound-infections-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:12:16 EST news249588699 Surgeons from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that in diabetic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, aggressive glycemic control does not result in any significant improvement of clinical outcomes as compared with moderate control. The findings, which appear in this month's issue of Annals of Surgery, also found the incidence of hypoglycemic events increased with aggressive glycemic control. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-aggressive-glycemic-diabetic-cabg-patients.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:35:50 EST news236345740