Technology Solutions
iDose4 Premium Package
December 17, 2012 10:31 am | by Philips | Product Releases | CommentsPhilips offers the iDose4 Premium Package, a new CT offering that includes two leading technologies that improve image quality – iDose4 and metal artifact reduction for orthopedic implants (O-MAR). iDose4 improves image quality through reduced artifact prevention and increased spatial resolution at low dose.
Improving Patient Data Security On Mobile Devices
December 14, 2012 1:27 pm | News | CommentsLaunched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today, a new education initiative and set of online tools provide healthcare providers and organizations practical tips on ways to protect their patients’ protected health information when using mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
New Kidney Cancer Procedure Utilizes Robotic Approach
December 14, 2012 1:12 pm | News | CommentsUrologists at Henry Ford Hospital have developed a new technique that could make minimally invasive robotic partial nephrectomy procedures the norm, rather than the exception for kidney cancer patients. The technique spares the kidney, eliminates long hospital stays and provides better outcomes by giving the surgeon more time to perform the procedure.
New Heart Procedure Promising, But More Evidence Needed
December 14, 2012 12:45 pm | News | CommentsA new heart valve procedure intended to treat patients with severe aortic stenosis and individuals who are at high risk for surgical complications or death is gaining traction in the U.S.
PC And Tablet Solutions
December 14, 2012 11:06 am | by GammaTech | Product Releases | CommentsGammaTech offers healthcare professionals PC and tablet options that are designed and engineered specifically for the medical industry. The A22i All-In-One PC and the fully rugged Durabook T10L2 medical tablet can assist doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals increase the quality of care for their patients.
Engineered Tissue Will Lead To Personalized Organ 'Models'
December 12, 2012 5:42 pm | by TED | Videos | CommentsTissue engineer Nina Tandon talks about a possible solution to treating illness: Using pluripotent stem cells to make personalized models of organs on which to test new drugs and treatments, and storing them on computer chips for transplants and other therapies.
New ACL Surgery May Improve Recovery Time
December 12, 2012 5:04 pm | by WTNH | Videos | CommentsA bio-engineer from the UConn Health Center has developed another method for ACL surgery that could cut down on recovery time: The complete regeneration of a knee ligament through tissue engineering.
New Vaccine Offers Post-Op Treatment For Cancer Patients
December 12, 2012 1:24 pm | News | CommentsSurgery removes the actual tumor while chemotherapy is aimed at destroying any cancer cells left in the body. Wake Forest Baptist is also among several medical centers nationwide participating in a new clinical trial. And so, every two weeks along with her chemotherapy, Thorn receives a dose of medicine considered "immunotherapy " designed to make any pancreatic cancer cells seem like a foreign body.
MRI-Guided Biopsy Boosts Prostate Cancer Detection
December 12, 2012 11:47 am | by Charles Bankhead | Articles | CommentsTargeted prostate biopsy with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tripled the cancer yield compared with conventional systematic biopsies, investigators reported. MRI-targeted lesions contained biopsy-proven prostate cancer 21% of the time, whereas systematic biopsy detected cancer just 7% of the time.
Brain Angioplasty, Stents Effective For Stroke Patients
December 11, 2012 12:17 pm | News | CommentsSome stroke patients may benefit from cerebral angioplasty and stent placement, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
One-Week Old Treated With Shunting, Cranial Reduction For Macrocephaly
December 11, 2012 12:05 pm | News | CommentsNeurosurgeons recently achieved excellent physical and aesthetic results in an infant born with extreme macrocephaly due to hydrocephalus This was accomplished with implantation of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt followed by an operation to stabilize and reduce the size of the baby's head.
The Greatest Resource You've Never Heard Of
December 10, 2012 12:54 pm | News | CommentsIt's the medical resource behind discoveries that have affected patients around the globe, treasured by researchers and funded by the National Institutes of Health for nearly 50 years: the Rochester Epidemiology Project.
Face Transplantation Calls For Reverse Craniofacial Planning
December 10, 2012 11:18 am | News | CommentsAs surgical teams gain experience with facial transplantation, a careful approach to planning, based on the principles of craniofacial surgery, can help to maximize patient outcomes in terms of facial form and function.
LED Backlight Surgical Displays
December 10, 2012 10:30 am | by NDS Surgical Imaging | NDS Surgical Imaging | Product Releases | CommentsNDS Surgical Imaging has expanded its family of advanced LED backlight surgical displays with the release of the new 24” Radiance® G2, 55” Radiance G2 and 24” EndoVue® monitors. The benefits of LED backlight technology are many. LED displays consume less power, thereby reducing energy costs.
Is Robotic Surgery The 'Laser' Of The 21st Century?
December 10, 2012 10:00 am | by Skeptical Scalpel | Blogs | CommentsAn OR nurse with 40 years of experience told me that she thinks robotic surgery might go the way of the laser. Similar to the unusual complications seen with the laser, when robotic surgery goes bad, it really goes bad.
Pre-Op Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Still Show Genetic Mutations
December 7, 2012 12:50 pm | News | CommentsFinding multiple mutations instead of just one primary mutation that can be targeted for therapy sheds more light on the challenges of treating triple-negative breast cancer.
iPhone Impacting How Patients Get Medical Info
December 7, 2012 12:40 pm | News | CommentsIn a study looking at mobile behavior over the last two years, The Patient's Guide, a leading on-line medical publisher, reports that consumers using their iPhone to gather medical information has increased 94 percent from 2011 to 2012.
Technology Will Replace 80% Of What Doctors Do
December 7, 2012 9:46 am | by Vinod Khosla | Blogs | CommentsHealthcare should become more about data-driven deduction and less about trial-and-error. That's hard to pull off without technology, because of the increasing amount of data and research available. Next-generation medicine will utilize more complex models of physiology, and more sensor data than a human MD could comprehend, to suggest personalized diagnosis.
Surgeons Implant Brain "Pacemaker" For Alzheimers
December 5, 2012 11:52 am | News | CommentsRecently, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine surgically implanted a pacemaker-like device into the brain of a patient in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, the first such operation in the United States. The device, which provides deep brain stimulation and has been used in thousands of people with Parkinson's disease, is seen as a possible means of boosting memory and reversing cognitive decline.
Invasive Surgical Procedure Detects Breast Cancer Nodes
December 5, 2012 10:11 am | News | CommentsA study conducted through the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, and led by Judy Boughey, M.D. a breast surgeon at Mayo Clinic, shows that a less invasive procedure known as sentinel lymph node surgery successfully identified whether cancer remained in lymph nodes in 91 percent of patients with node-positive breast cancer who received chemotherapy before their surgery.
Neurosurgeons Associated With Few Stroke Deaths
December 4, 2012 11:31 am | News | CommentsResearchers at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, have found an association in the United States between a higher density of neurologists and neurosurgeons and a decreased risk of death from stroke.
Situational Awareness Display
December 4, 2012 10:44 am | by STERIS | Steris Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsSTERIS offers the new S.A.F.E. Situational Awareness for Everyone® Display. It is designed to provide automatic access to key patient information from diverse IT systems – laboratory, radiology, medical records, allergies, and more – within the operating room. It provides a dynamic view of clinical information on a dedicated, easy to read display to optimize clinical decision making and patient safety.
New Option For Treating Aneurysms
December 3, 2012 1:04 pm | News | CommentsA new technology called the Pipeline embolization device (PED) shows encouraging results in patients with certain types of difficult-to-treat brain aneurysms, reports the December issue of Neurosurgery.
Quicker Evaluation For Swallowing, Voice Problems Following Brain Surgery
December 3, 2012 12:55 pm | News | CommentsJohns Hopkins experts are recommending early post-surgical assessment - preferably within 24 hours - for trouble chewing and swallowing food, or speaking normally, among patients who have had benign tumors removed from the base of the brain.
Single-Incision Robotic Cholecystectomy
November 29, 2012 10:39 am | by TopHospital | Videos | CommentsDr. Benjamin Schneider, a bariatric and minimally invasive surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, recently performed the first single-incision robotic gallbladder surgery both at BIDMC and in the city of Boston.
