News tagged with favorable outcomes


Angioplasty at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery safe, effective

Non-emergency angioplasty performed at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery capability is no less safe and effective than angioplasty performed at hospitals with cardiac surgery services, according to research presented ...

Cardiology created Mar 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Complex spinal surgeries with two attending physicians, instead of one, benefit patients

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes – and a new study by a duo at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during ...

Surgery created Jan 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene in eye melanomas linked to good prognosis

Melanomas that develop in the eye often are fatal. Now, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis report they have identified a mutated gene in melanoma tumors of the eye that appears ...

Genetics created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Advanced surgical approaches may benefit elderly patients with colorectal, bladder cancers

Advanced surgical techniques such as robotic-assisted operations and minimally invasive surgical procedures may extend survival and improve recovery in octogenarians with bladder and colorectal cancers when compared with ...

Cancer created Oct 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study examines exercise testing in asymptomatic patients after coronary revascularization

Asymptomatic patients who undergo treadmill exercise echocardiography (ExE) after coronary revascularization may be identified as being at high risk but those patients do not appear to have more favorable outcomes with repeated ...

Cardiology created May 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hispanic lung cancer patients tend to live longer than blacks and whites

A new analysis has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that, ...

Cancer created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0