New elastic surgical glue seals wounds in 60 seconds : Breakthrough in wound management Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 Oct 2017 11:30 AM ISTA highly elastic and adhesive surgical glue that quickly seals wounds without the need for common staples or sutures could transform how surgeries are...
Bariatric surgery also lowers cancer risk in severely obese patients : Study Anjali Nimesh Nimesh6 Oct 2017 10:10 AM ISTSeverely obese patients who undergo bariatric surgery lower their risk of developing cancer by at least a third, according to a University of...
Doctors save 10-yr-old by removing swallowed lithium button battery Anjali Nimesh Nimesh5 Oct 2017 9:35 AM ISTThe team had adopted video endoscopy method to remove the battery from the food pipe of Tharun, 48 hours after he swallowed the foreign object. Tharun...
Making surgical screws from bones supriya kashyap kashyap3 Oct 2017 8:30 AM ISTBiomechanics from TU Graz, are developing surgical screws from donated human bone material for foot and jaw surgery together with surgebright, a...
Scientists develop new gel patch which speeds up healing and reduces scarring Anjali Nimesh Nimesh27 Sept 2017 10:30 AM ISTScientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a new gel patch prototype that could speed up the healing...
Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery 18 percent failure noted : JAMA Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli25 Sept 2017 10:00 AM ISTAmong patients who underwent laparoscopic antireflux surgery, about 18 percent experienced recurrent gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) requiring...
Doctors remove Bladder Stone as big as an Ostrich Egg: NEJM Case Report Anjali Nimesh Nimesh24 Sept 2017 11:30 AM ISTA 64-year-old patient in California visited hospital emergency department with a 3-day history of pain in the left flank and urinary retention and...
Revived 30 minutes after death!! Anjali Nimesh Nimesh22 Sept 2017 4:27 PM ISTIn a miraculous turn of events, a team of doctors led by Dr S N Khanna, Associate Director, Cardiac Surgery, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, recently...
48-hours Antibiotic must for obese C-section patients supriya kashyap kashyap22 Sept 2017 10:30 AM ISTAmong obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, a postoperative 48-hour course of antibiotics significantly decreased the rate of surgical site...
Anemia- a consequence of bariatric surgery Anjali Nimesh Nimesh22 Sept 2017 9:40 AM ISTResearchers found a high rate of anemia 10 years after patients received Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, suggesting that long-term follow-up with a...
Weight loss after bariatric surgery may reverse eye damage: Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli Kohli17 Sept 2017 10:29 AM ISTEarly eye damage caused by obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes can potentially be reversed by obesity surgery, concludes a study presented at...
New FAT score technique may predict outcome of bariatric surgery Anjali Nimesh Nimesh16 Sept 2017 9:15 AM ISTA new method of analysing subcutaneous fat may allow doctors to better predict which patients will respond well in terms of weight loss to obesity...
