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Stay up to date with the latest Treatments updates from the global hospital industryLondon Hospital to Perform UK's First Face and Hand Transplant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Deep brain stimulation could help patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, according to research conducted at Amsterdam University's Academic Medical Center. Sixteen patients with...
Sugar Does Not Relieve Baby Pain
Feeding sugar to newborn babies during painful hospital procedures may not relieve pain, according to a new study by researchers at the University of London, UK. Babies in hospitals...
Avid's Brain Dye Gets Positive Results for Alzheimer's Detection
Brain scans using a radioactive dye developed by Philadelphia-based Avid Radiopharmaceuticals can detect Alzheimer's disease, a study has found. The dye, called florbetapir, is in the final...
Blood Test Could Predict Menopause
A blood test that measures ovarian hormone levels can predict when women will reach the menopause, Iranian scientists have said. The test was able to predict the age at which women reached...
Danish Researchers Develop New Bladder Cancer Test
Researchers in Denmark have developed a new assay to test for the tumour markers that point to bladder cancer. The Danish Cancer Society and the Herlev University Hospital of Copenhagen teamed...
Study Reveals New Development In Prostate Cancer Treatment
Hormone treatments for prostate cancer are more effective when combined with radiation therapy, according to researchers in the UK. A study involving 150 patients found that 74% of...
FDA Clears VAC Therapy for Venous Insufficiency Ulcers
The Vacuum Assisted Closure (VAC) Therapy System, developed by Kinetic Concepts for the treatment of venous insufficiency ulcers, also known as venous leg ulcers (VLUs), has received...
VisEn Launches Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Agents
Two new imaging agents, the ProSense 750 FAST and Neutrophil Elastase 680 FAST, developed by VisEn Medical, were launched at the European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM) 2010 in Warsaw, Poland. ...
Bioresorbable Technology Treats Coronary Artery Disease
Abbott has announced positive six-month data from its ABSORB trial, which showed its bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) showed very low rates of adverse cardiac events (4.4%) and no blood...
