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Newswise: Out with the old and in with a hopeful new year for patient who played guitar during ‘awake’ brain tumor surgery
Released: 8-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
Out with the old and in with a hopeful new year for patient who played guitar during ‘awake’ brain tumor surgery
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Christian Nolen usually plays guitar on stage, but the professional guitarist recently underwent an open craniotomy and played notes from Deftones songs while a neurosurgical team worked to remove a tumor (glioma) from his brain. B-roll is available.

   
4-Jan-2024 7:05 PM EST
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Identify Patients in Need of Alcohol Treatment? Study Suggests It Can
Research Society on Alcoholism

An artificial intelligence-based program efficiently and accurately identified patients’ risky alcohol use by analyzing their health records, according to a study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research.

     
Newswise: UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute First in World to Implant Penditure Clip Using Minimally Invasive Approach
Released: 8-Jan-2024 9:30 AM EST
UH Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute First in World to Implant Penditure Clip Using Minimally Invasive Approach
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute recently became the first center in the world to implant Medtronic’s Penditure™ Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Exclusion System through a minimally invasive approach during a mitral valve repair procedure.

Released: 8-Jan-2024 7:05 AM EST
Bariatric surgery may slow cognitive decline for people with obesity
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

People with obesity who underwent bariatric surgery had stable cognition two years later, a study finds.

Released: 4-Jan-2024 2:00 PM EST
Starting a family with the help of science: The latest research in Fertility
Newswise

Find the latest research and features on fertility in the Fertility News Source on Newswise.

       
Released: 4-Jan-2024 1:30 PM EST
Early nerve intervention reduces pain and complications after amputation
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

 Performed early – at the time of amputation – a procedure called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) can reduce pain scores and prevent complications related to abnormal nerve regrowth, suggests a study in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Newswise:Video Embedded 6-year-old-adopts-dog-with-same-heart-condition
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Released: 4-Jan-2024 1:05 PM EST
6-year-old adopts dog with same heart condition
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Their special connection supports Robin through her craniofacial procedures

Newswise: Robotic surgery is associated with improved outcomes for most colon cancer patients
Released: 4-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
Robotic surgery is associated with improved outcomes for most colon cancer patients
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Robotic surgery offers significant benefits over laparoscopic procedures for many patients undergoing colectomies for colon cancer, according to a study by UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Newswise: Surgical teams put on notice for poor behaviour
Released: 3-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Surgical teams put on notice for poor behaviour
University of South Australia

Australian researchers have successfully trialled a novel experiment to address offensive and rude comments in operating theatres by placing ‘eye’ signage in surgical rooms.

Newswise: New Robotic SP Platform for Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
Released: 3-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
New Robotic SP Platform for Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In a groundbreaking case, researchers showcased the innovative application of the new da Vinci SP platform designed for single-port surgery in the first transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) hysterectomy.

Newswise: Jane C. Edmond, MD, Begins Term as 2024 President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
Released: 2-Jan-2024 12:00 PM EST
Jane C. Edmond, MD, Begins Term as 2024 President of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO)

Jane C. Edmond, MD, this week begins her one-year term as the 128th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Newswise: Urology of Virginia Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Released: 1-Jan-2024 6:05 AM EST
Urology of Virginia Announces New Chief Executive Officer
Urology of Virginia

Urology of Virginia announces that Dr. Joshua Langston has been elected Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, as of January 1, 2024.

Newswise: January 2024 Issue of Neurosurgical Focus: Video: “Use of the Exoscope in Neurosurgery”
28-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
January 2024 Issue of Neurosurgical Focus: Video: “Use of the Exoscope in Neurosurgery”
Journal of Neurosurgery

Announcement of contents of the January 2024 issue of Neurosurgical Focus: Video

27-Dec-2023 11:00 AM EST
Johns Hopkins Researchers: Regret Rarer Than Believed Among Patients Who Undergo Gender Affirming Surgery
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Three Johns Hopkins researchers are urging the medical community to dismiss a widely held, but scientifically unsupported belief that many people who are transgender and gender diverse (TGD), and undergo gender affirming surgery (GAS), later regret their decision to undergo such procedures.

Released: 22-Dec-2023 11:00 AM EST
Trends in abdominoplasty: More outpatient surgery and concomitant liposuction
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Abdominoplasty continues to be a safe and effective procedure, with more cases performed on an outpatient basis and increased use of concomitant liposuction, according to a new 16-year analysis in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

Newswise: Smidt Heart Institute Opens Aortic Surveillance Clinic
Released: 22-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Smidt Heart Institute Opens Aortic Surveillance Clinic
Cedars-Sinai

The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has opened an Aortic Surveillance Clinic for the evaluation and long-term monitoring of patients with enlarged aortas, or aortic aneurysms, for whom surgery may not be necessary.

Newswise: Central Ohio’s first proton therapy center opens to treat children and adults
Released: 21-Dec-2023 8:50 AM EST
Central Ohio’s first proton therapy center opens to treat children and adults
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute celebrated the opening of a $100 million, 55,000 square foot proton therapy center, the first treatment facility in central Ohio offering this highly targeted form of radiation therapy for treatment of complex tumors that cannot be removed through surgery.

Newswise: Prominent Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher to Lead UCSF Orthopaedics Program
Released: 21-Dec-2023 8:00 AM EST
Prominent Orthopaedic Surgeon and Researcher to Lead UCSF Orthopaedics Program
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on January 1, 2024.

Released: 20-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
Working with Big Data requires a lot of power! The latest research and features on Supercomputing
Newswise

With the rise in machine learning applications and artificial intelligence, it's no wonder that more and more scientists and researchers are turning to supercomputers. Supercomputers are commonly used for making predictions with advanced modeling and simulations. This can be applied to climate research, weather forecasting, genomic sequencing, space exploration, aviation engineering and more.

       
Newswise: Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Weight Loss Program is New Jersey’s First Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications
Released: 20-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Weight Loss Program is New Jersey’s First Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications
Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s bariatric surgery center is the first in the state to be accredited as a Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).

Newswise: Study: Spinal Cord Injury Causes Acute And Systemic Muscle Wasting
19-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Study: Spinal Cord Injury Causes Acute And Systemic Muscle Wasting
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Acute spinal cord injury (SCI) patients lose body weight and muscle mass, despite being on a high-calorie diet while in the intensive care unit. Their muscle wasting is substantial and extends beyond what can explained by inactivity or denervation (loss of nerve supply) alone.

Released: 19-Dec-2023 4:05 PM EST
هل ألم إِبْهامك هو الْتِهاب غِمْد الوَتَرِ لكيرفان؟
Mayo Clinic

الْتِهاب غِمْد الوَتَرِ لكيرفانهو اسم معقد لحالة يُشار إليها للتسهيل باسم "إِبْهام الأم" و"معصم الأم" و"إِبْهام اللاعب" "- وهذه الحالة مرتبطة بالاستخدام المتكرر لليدين والمعصمين. وهي حالة تسبب ألمًا مُبَرِّحًا في منطقة الرسغ والإبهام.

Released: 19-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
¿Le duele el pulgar por la tenosinovitis de De Quervain?
Mayo Clinic

La tenosinovitis de De Quervain es un nombre complicado para una afección que se ha denominado "pulgar de madre", "muñeca de mamá" y "pulgar de jugador". Todos estos están asociados al uso repetitivo de las manos y la muñeca. Es una afección que provoca un dolor extremo en la zona de la muñeca y el pulgar.

Released: 19-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Sua dor no polegar pode ser tenossinovite de De Quervain?
Mayo Clinic

Tenossinovite de De Quervain é um nome complicado para uma condição que tem sido chamada de “polegar da mãe”, “pulso da mamãe” e “polegar do jogador”. Tudo isso está associado ao uso repetitivo das mãos e pulsos. A condição causa dor extrema no pulso e na área do polegar.

Released: 19-Dec-2023 11:30 AM EST
Flavonoid supplement reduces swelling after total knee arthroplasty
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

For patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA), treatment with diosmin – a flavonoid supplement derived from citrus fruits –reduced swelling of the knee and leg and some measures of associated pain can be achieved, reports a clinical trial in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.

Newswise: New Artificial Intelligence Tool Predicts Mortality After Surgeries and Procedures
Released: 15-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
New Artificial Intelligence Tool Predicts Mortality After Surgeries and Procedures
Cedars-Sinai

An artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by investigators at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai and colleagues at two other institutions accurately predicted how patients would fare after surgeries and procedures.

Released: 13-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
‘Tis the season to get vaccinated: How to stay healthy through the holidays
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

With virus cases rising and the holidays nigh, three expert from University of Michigan Health give their top 12 tips for avoiding or reducing the impact of COVID-19, flu, RSV, pneumonia and whooping cough in adults and kids.

Newswise: UP team performs SA-first surgery to attach artificial foot to three-year-old Rottweiler
Released: 12-Dec-2023 3:05 PM EST
UP team performs SA-first surgery to attach artificial foot to three-year-old Rottweiler
University of Pretoria

A young Rottweiler has been given a new lease on life following innovative, ground-breaking prosthetic surgery to make him fully mobile again. Three-year-old Covid is on his way to recovery after successful surgery that’s allowed the attachment of an artificial foot to give him maximum quality of life.

Released: 12-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
The 2024 STS Annual Meeting – A Global Convening on Advances in Cardiothoracic Surgery
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Credentialed press representatives are invited to attend The Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ 60th Annual Meeting, featuring late-breaking scientific research, thought-provoking lectures, cutting-edge technologies, and innovative cardiothoracic surgery products.

Released: 12-Dec-2023 9:00 AM EST
A Lifesaving Chain, A Global First: Penn Medicine Sets a Worldwide Record with 100 Kidney Paired Donation Transplants in a Year
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

For thousands of people around the world waiting for a kidney, paired exchange serves as a beacon of hope. One person's willingness to undergo the act of Kidney Paired Donation (KPD) often sets in motion a chain of beautiful and selfless acts, where individuals give and receive the chance for a better life.

Newswise: A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer
Released: 8-Dec-2023 10:40 AM EST
A shape-shifting robotic catheter could make heart surgery safer
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

A beating heart makes for a formidable surgical arena, but a new robotic catheter could someday equip surgeons to operate in the cardiac environment with greater ease.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 2:15 PM EST
Looking for unique stories about the winter holidays? Check out the Winter Holidays channel
Newswise

It's the moooost wonderful time...of the year! Are you looking for new story ideas that are focused on the winter holiday season? Perhaps you're working on a story on on managing stress and anxiety? Perhaps you're working on a story on seasonal affective disorder? Or perhaps your editor asked you to write a story on tracking Santa? Look no further. Check out the Winter Holidays channel.

       
Newswise: Getting under your skin: 3D printing technique builds structures through tissues
Released: 7-Dec-2023 2:05 PM EST
Getting under your skin: 3D printing technique builds structures through tissues
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

What if a clinician could 3D print something through your skin, constructing an implant or replacement organ underneath layers of tissue? The world of medicine would be transformed: a host of surgical procedures, which come with a variety of risks, could be performed without ever lifting a scalpel.

6-Dec-2023 9:05 AM EST
Surgery patients now less likely to get opioids – but decline has slowed
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Post-surgery pain relief has shifted away from opioid-containing medications over the past seven years, but the downward trend has slowed since 2020, a new study shows.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 9:00 AM EST
Research to Prevent Blindness and Alcon Award Glaucoma Grant
Research to Prevent Blindness

The recipient of the Research to Prevent Blindness / David Epstein Career Advancement Award in Glaucoma Research sponsored by Alcon is Alex Huang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Newswise: Specialized Surgery, Therapy Bring Relief to Cancer Patients
Released: 7-Dec-2023 12:05 AM EST
Specialized Surgery, Therapy Bring Relief to Cancer Patients
Cedars-Sinai

By the time cancer survivor Sydnee Meth found an effective treatment for the pain she had coped with for years, her right arm was so swollen and heavy that she could not lift it past her shoulder.

Released: 5-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
Tonsil, adenoid removal improved sleep quality, some behavioral problems in children with mild sleep apnea
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

The surgery did not improve the children’s neurodevelopmental functioning but was associated with improved quality of life, sleep symptoms, and blood pressure 12-months post-surgery according to a randomized control trial led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

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Released: 5-Dec-2023 11:05 AM EST
Medical school formally establishes Department of Neurosurgery
Virginia Tech

With the approval of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine (VTCSOM) has established a Department of Neurosurgery.

Newswise: Personal approach reduces opioids after cesarean deliveries
Released: 5-Dec-2023 10:05 AM EST
Personal approach reduces opioids after cesarean deliveries
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Tailoring prescriptions individually to a patient’s needs after cesarean delivery can decrease opioid use while successfully managing post-surgical pain, according to a new study by researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

Newswise: USC Norris Cancer Hospital earns Leapfrog Top Teaching Hospital award for third year in a row
Released: 5-Dec-2023 6:00 AM EST
USC Norris Cancer Hospital earns Leapfrog Top Teaching Hospital award for third year in a row
Keck Medicine of USC

The Leapfrog Group, a national hospital watchdog organization, has named USC Norris Cancer Hospital a 2023 Top Teaching Hospital.

Released: 1-Dec-2023 7:00 AM EST
Clinical smart watch finds success at identifying atrial fibrillation
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Researchers have developed a prescription wristwatch that continuously monitors the wearer’s heart rhythm and uses a unique algorithm to detect atrial fibrillation.

Newswise: Improved Air Leak Detection Reduces Chest Tube Duration
21-Nov-2023 9:05 AM EST
Improved Air Leak Detection Reduces Chest Tube Duration
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center improved postoperative air leak detection for patients after a pulmonary lobectomy, reducing chest tube duration, hospital length of stay and readmissions.

Newswise:Video Embedded rewired-from-head-to-toe
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Released: 1-Dec-2023 12:05 AM EST
Rewired From Head to Toe
Cedars-Sinai

Hailing from Park City, Utah, Riley Mulholland enjoyed an upbringing steeped in the vibrant active outdoor sports culture of his hometown. From an early age, Mulholland took to the slopes, played football and lacrosse; he was the definition of a multisport athlete.

Newswise: November Research Highlights
Released: 30-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
November Research Highlights
Cedars-Sinai

A roundup of the latest medical discoveries and faculty news at Cedars-Sinai.

Released: 30-Nov-2023 11:00 AM EST
Plastic surgeons ask: What's the ideal male buttock?
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

At a time when more men are considering body contouring and gluteal enhancement, an Internet survey provides new information on the "ideal" appearance of the male buttock, reports the December issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).



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