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Ohio Medical Center deploys new cancer technology
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center in Ohio, US, has installed new technology at the Seidman Cancer Center to treat ovarian, endometrial and other...

US Researchers Develop Biomarker Blood Test for Prostate Cancer
Monday, August 15, 2011 Researchers at University of Cincinnati in the US have developed a DNA-based biomarker blood test to complement the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test currently used to screen men for...

New Onyx Glue to Treat Aneurysms
Monday, June 06, 2011 Doctors at Brooke Army Medical Center in the US have developed a new glue to treat aneurysms. Brooke Army Medical Center endovascular neurosurgeon Christopher Koebbe said the glue, known...

GTx Unveils Positive Results from Ostarine Trial
Monday, May 23, 2011 GTx has announced positive results from a phase IIb clinical trial evaluating Ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator that could be used to treat muscle wasting in cancer patients. ...

Lymphoseek Detects Lymph Nodes
Thursday, May 05, 2011 Neoprobe has announced results from its Lymphoseek (tilmanocept) NEO3-09 study. The Phase III clinical study enrolled 150 subjects with either breast cancer or melanoma within...

Canadian Scientists Discover New Way to Encourage Blood Vessel Formation
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Researchers at The University of Western Ontario in Canada have discovered a method to stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in tissues that are starved of oxygen. Dr Geoffrey...

US Surgeons Perform Breakthrough Kidney Cancer Surgery
Monday, April 11, 2011 Surgeons at University of Rochester Medical Center in New York state, US, have become the first in the country to use a new infrared imaging technique combined with robot-assisted surgery to...

US Hospital Performs Hand Transplant
Thursday, March 31, 2011 Surgeons at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, US, have successfully performed a hand transplant on a 21-year-old female patient. The 19-hour surgery involved several teams...

London Hospital to Perform UK's First Face and Hand Transplant
Monday, March 28, 2011 A team of surgeons at the Royal Free Hospital in London has announced that they will begin to assess patients for the UK's first face and hand transplant, a procedure that has been performed...

US Hospital Performs Nation's First Full Face Transplant
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have performed the first full face transplant in the US. A team of more than 30 physicians, nurses, anaesthesiologists and residents worked...

UK Heart Surgery Named Best in Europe
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 Heart surgery in England and Wales has been named as the best in Europe, with 25% fewer deaths after operations, according to a report from Manchester University in the UK. Researchers...

CT Use in US Emergency Departments Rises
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 The use of CT in US hospital emergency departments is on the rise, according to a study published in Radiology. Researchers evaluated data collected by the National Hospital Ambulatory...

North Carolina Hospitals Err Despite Safety Initiatives
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Despite the efforts to improve patient safety, medical errors and unavoidable mistakes in US hospitals have not improved over time, according to a six-year study involving ten North...

Autonomy Corporation Diagnosis Tool Wins Technology Award
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Autonomy Corporation's Autonomy Auminence, a point-of-care analysis dashboard, has won the 2010 Healthcare IT Summit innovation award for Best New Technology. Autonomy Auminence enables...

Malaysian Government to Expand Neurological Services
Thursday, November 25, 2010 The Malaysian Government is planning to expand neurological services across all state hospitals by employing at least two neurosurgeons in each. In addition, at least four neurosurgeons...

NHS Organ Transplants Reach All-Time High
Monday, November 08, 2010 A record number of NHS patients in the UK underwent an organ transplant during 2009 / 10, according to the NHS Blood and Transplant's annual report. Hospitals carried out 3,706...

Hospitalisations for Medication-Related Conditions Rise in US
Friday, October 29, 2010 The number of hospitalisations in the US among people aged 45 and older for medication and drug-related conditions has doubled between 1997 and 2008, research suggests. A report released by...

US Hospital Opens Proton Therapy Unit
Thursday, October 21, 2010 The first proton therapy unit in the US state of Illinois has been opened at Central DuPage Hospital. Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment for cancer that spares...

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Could Treat Depression
Friday, October 15, 2010 A study conducted at Rush University Medical Center, US, suggests that transcranial magnetic stimulation can be an effective, long-term treatment for major depression. The non-invasive...

Deep Brain Stimulation Could Be Used to Treat OCD
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 Deep brain stimulation could help patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, according to research conducted at Amsterdam University's Academic Medical Center. Sixteen patients with...