The elimination of extensive routine preoperative tests and consultations represents an area of potentially large health care savings across many disciplines, particularly for low-risk patients being evaluated for cataract surgery. It is ...
After seeing its revenue fall over the past years, Boston Scientific is looking to boost its bottom line in China. The company is adding employees in China and is debuting surgeon-training centers there, according to a Wall Street Journal ...
Millions of Americans struggle daily with degenerative, painful and crippling knee or hip arthritis, or similar chronic conditions that can turn the simplest task into an ordeal. Fortunately, for those immobilized by their disease, hope ...
Tags: hip arthritis, knee or hip replacement, crippling knee, OWUSA
After chemotherapy, surgery and radiation to treat the original tumor might not benefit women with advanced breast cancer, a new study shows. A minority of women with breast cancer discover they have the disease in its later stages, after ...
Tags: advanced breast cancer, chemotherapy, original breast tumor, women health
Ann Marie Reynolds, a 32-year-old who has been in and out of hospitals fighting chronic kidney disease since she was a teenager, had a less than 1 percent chance of receiving a kidney without the University of Alabama at Birmingham's ...
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For men having prostate cancer surgery, the type of anesthesia doctors use might make a difference in the odds of the cancer returning, a new study suggests. Researchers found that of nearly 3,300 men who underwent prostate cancer ...
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Carrying and lifting heavy luggage during the holidays can lead to neck, wrist, back and shoulder pain and injuries unless you take proper safety precautions, an orthopedic surgeon says. In 2012, nearly 54,000 luggage-related injuries ...
DePuy Synthes Trauma, a division of DePuy Orthopaedics, has announced the launch of a new radial head prosthesis system for primary and revision joint replacement of the radial head to restore joint function. DePuy Synthes Trauma says ...
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Bolton Medical, a medical device manufacturer, has initiated its Phase II US clinical trial to study the safety and effectiveness of the Treovance abdominal stent-graft with Navitel delivery system. The first two cases were performed on ...
US-based BioMedical Enterprises (BME) has obtained the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance (K131640) for its upgraded HammerLock Nitinol intramedullary fixation system for hammertoe deformities. The patent-pending HammerLock ...
Four foreign journalists were honored with Press Freedom Awards Tuesday evening recognizing their work in the face of severe reprisals, including physical threats and imprisonment. The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2013 International ...
Posted in Printing Equipment and Supplies by Qmed Staff on November 25, 2013 Innovations in 3-D printing have allowed researchers to fabricate human bones, ears, early-prototype human hearts, strips of liver and face prosthetics. In the ...
Quitting smoking is one of the most impactful things a person can do to improve health, lower the risk of disease and increase longevity, a U.S. official says. "Today, as we celebrate the Great American Smokeout, I encourage all smokers ...
A Chicago-area surgeon says many sprains, bruises, broken bones and other injuries incurred in Thanksgiving pick-up football games are preventable. Dr. Pietro Tonino of the Loyola University Medical Center said many injuries suffered in ...
TauTona, a medical device firm, has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and a new patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the TauTona tissue injector (TTI), a hand-held adipose tissue ...
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