Researchers at the University of Toronto have helped reduce the preparation time needed for Gamma Knife radiosurgery—a process that typically takes hours—to around one minute by using a quantum-inspired technology called ...
Apr 22, 2021
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If you've ever been in an operating room where tools are used to simultaneously cut and cauterize human flesh, you know what surgical smoke is. The heat generated by these surgical tools produces vapors made up of aerosolized ...
Jan 7, 2021
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An individual hospital's infection control efforts have a ripple effect on the prevalence of a deadly and highly infectious bacterium in hospitals throughout its surrounding region, a multi-center research group led by the ...
Oct 9, 2012
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Clinical researchers at the University of Bristol are studying treatment options for obesity, after a survey on behalf of National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) found more than four in 10 people in the West have noticed ...
Jan 14, 2016
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A new approach to examining mammograms that takes into account a woman's health risk profile would reduce the number of cancer instances missed and also cut the number of false positives, according to a paper being presented ...
Jun 17, 2014
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Research studies show that Black patients can be subjected to wait times 30% longer than other patients at doctors' offices and other healthcare facilities, leaving little doubt about the biased nature of healthcare scheduling ...
Aug 23, 2021
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It's a supply and demand problem, it's a transportation problem, it's a donor problem—and that just scratches the surface. According to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, every 9 minutes a new patient is ...
Jul 13, 2021
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The number of breast cancer surgery which a hospital performs yearly does not play a significant role in the chance of survival. This is the conclusion of research of Sabine Siesling from the University of Twente (MIRA institute) ...
Aug 20, 2014
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Every year the flu threatens the health of millions of people. Experts continue to recommend annual flu vaccination as the best line of defense, but despite these recommendations, flu vaccination rates haven't broken 50% ...
Aug 12, 2021
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University of Texas at Dallas researchers have demonstrated that imaging technology used to map the universe shows promise for more accurately and quickly identifying cancer cells in the operating room.
Sep 30, 2019
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