Infants and children who undergo heart transplantation are experiencing good outcomes after surgery and may expect to live beyond 15 years post-surgery with reasonable cardiac function and quality of life, according to a study released ...
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More than half of babies and children who receive heart transplants are surviving many years, say the authors of a new study. Pediatric heart transplant patients are living 15 years and longer with good heart function, the scientists ...
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Today's headlines include reports about how the health law played in last night's State-of-the-Union address by President Barack Obama. Kaiser Health News: Ex-Microsoft Exec Brings Lists And Whiteboard To Overhaul Of Obamacare Website ...
Tags: Treating Clubfoot, Obamacare Website, America's Economic Divide
Sapheon has announced the Health Canada approval for its VenaSeal sapheon closure system, designed to treat venous reflux disease (varicose veins). VenaSeal features a specially formulated medical adhesive that closes the saphenous vein. ...
New Wave Surgical, a surgical device company, has announced that its flagship product D-HELP endoscopic visualization system has surpassed the one-millionth procedure. New Wave Surgical's patented D-HELP system is a device that was ...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Each year, about half of U.S. adults age 65 and older who are hospitalized must have family assist in medical decision-making, researchers say. Dr. Alexia Torke, an associate professor of medicine at Indiana ...
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Outgoing Acer MD Charles Chung (right) with Andrew Bosch. Acer Australia and New Zealand has announced the appointment of a new managing director for the local subsidiary, following news that the current MD is set to retire due to health ...
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Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. (NASDAQ:HITK), a specialty pharmaceuticals company, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration, (FDA) granted final approval for the Company's Abbreviated New Drug Application, (ANDA) for Bromfenac ...
Surgeons' best tools for locating tumors inside the body are often their hands. But during minimally invasive surgeries—which can reduce recovery time by days—the ability to examine tissue through touch, called palpation, is ...
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Not prescribing opioids first or as a long-term therapy for chronic, non-cancer pain and avoiding MRIs, CTs and X-rays for low-back pain are among the tests and treatments identified by ASA that are commonly ordered but not always ...
Researchers from several institutions in the U.S. and one from China have together developed a piezoelectric device that when implanted in the body onto a constantly moving organ is able to produce enough electricity to run a pacemaker or ...
The brain is a reclusive organ. Neurons the cells that make up the brain, nerves, and spinal cord communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials, but their interactions are complicated and hard to understand. ...
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Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
While many Americans make New Year's resolutions focused on self-improvement, those who are overweight or obese likely prioritize getting down to a healthy weight. However, these resolutions often focus too much on the aesthetic side of ...
Tags: Healthy Weight, Health, Medicine
Agenus Inc. (Nasdaq: AGEN), a biotechnology company developing novel immune system activating treatments for cancers and infectious diseases, announced that Phase 2 results of Prophage G-200 vaccine in recurrent patients with glioblastoma ...