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TS-Si News Service
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Sunday, 05 February 2012
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Austin, TX, USA. A new procedure can partially restore severed nerves within days and often largely restore them within two to four weeks, potentially aiding patient recovery from injury or organ transplantation.
The science team is conducting studies to obtain approval for the start of clinical trials.
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 TS-Si News Service Wednesday, 25 January 2012 Stanford, CA, USA. Women report more intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to investigators who mined a huge collection of electronic medical records to establish the broad gender difference to a high level of statistical significance.
Their study suggests that stronger efforts should be made to recruit women subjects in population and clinical studies in order to find out why this gender difference exists.
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 23 January 2012 Republic of Singapore. A new way to create stronger and more efficient continuous wave T-rays hold promise for improved medical scanning gadgets.
The electromagnetic Terahertz (THz) waves or T-rays are the basis for technology used in full-body security scanners.
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 Akhilesh B. Reddy Thursday, 19 January 2012 Cambridge, United Kingdom. We’re all slaves to time, and that’s no understatement. I’m in a handover meeting, about to begin a weekend on-call as a doctor. The team discusses all of the patients and what the plan is for the next 48–72 hours.
From previous experience, I know that things on the wards change quickly and so this information will be out of date in the next 24 hours. But that’s the job; patients get sick and you have to react fast to make sure that they are treated effectiv
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 TS-Si News Service Saturday, 14 January 2012 Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Robotics experts have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the United States.
Robotic surgery has the potential for new and less invasive procedures. For some, such as prostate surgery, robots are already standard practice. In addition, robotic telesurgery, operated by a surgeon from a remote location, offers the potential for better access to expert care in remote areas and the developing world.
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 TS-Si News Service Friday, 13 January 2012 Champaign, lL, USA. A new bandage stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. Called the microvascular stamp, it contains living cells that deliver growth factors to damaged tissues in a defined pattern.
After a week, the pattern of the stamp is written in blood vessels, the researchers report, a development with important implications for organ regeneration.
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Monday, 28 November 2011 Washington, DC, USA. It’s hard to think of any major portion of President Obama’s health policy that hasn’t engendered intense argument. But one at least comes close: the provision of the 2009 federal stimulus law that pushes medical practices to update their record-keeping for the 21st century.
The aim is to ensure that all of the nation’s medical records are computerized by 2014.
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 Christine Vestal (Stateline) Sunday, 13 November 2011 Washington, DC, USA. In a new report, the leaders of state Medicaid programs say federal rules discourage them from experimenting with ideas that could save money and improve care.
State Medicaid directors are asking the federal government to fast-track state Medicaid improvements by emphasizing health over bureaucratic process and rapidly disseminating best practices so that states can benefit from the success of others.
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 TS-Si News Service Tuesday, 25 October 2011 Boston, MA, USA. Exposure in the womb to bisphenol A (BPA) a chemical used to make plastic containers and other consumer goods is associated with more behavioral and emotional problems in three-year-old children, particularly girls.
The study confirms two prior studies showing that exposure to BPA in the womb impacts child behavior, but is the first to show that in utero exposures are more important than exposures during childhood.
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 TS-Si News Service Monday, 17 October 2011 London, UK. Scientists have discovered an enzyme that acts as a fertility switch, a finding with implications for the treatment of infertility and recurrent miscarriage.
However, in previous research scientists showed how a high rate of chromosomal abnormalities following conception may explain comparatively low fertility rates in humans.
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 TS-Si News Service Thursday, 01 September 2011 Stanford, CA, USA. A method for reconnecting severed blood vessels appears to be an effective alternative to traditional procedures that use sutures, with potential application to lateral research on tissue generation, particularly on blood vessels less than 1 millimeter wide.
In animal studies, the medical scientists used a poloxamer gel and bioadhesive rather than a needle and thread to join together blood vessels, a procedure called vascular anastomosis.
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