Program Helps Reduce Risk of Delirium, Hospital Length of Stay for Older Patients Undergoing Surgery Anjali Nimesh Nimesh29 May 2017 9:13 AM ISTOlder patients who underwent major abdominal surgery and received an intervention that included nutritional assistance and early mobilization were...
Kidney transplants from diabetic donors will save more lives, sooner: ASN Anjali Nimesh Nimesh26 May 2017 2:57 PM ISTPHILADELPHIA -- There are more than 98,000 people currently awaiting a kidney transplant in the United States. But the organs are in short supply:...
Golden Knee Replacement Surgery performed at AIIMS Anjali Nimesh Nimesh22 May 2017 12:50 PM ISTA 60-year-old woman’s problem knee has been replaced with what doctors call a golden knee at the All India Instititute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).The...
Swallowable balloon to fight obesity without surgery Anjali Nimesh Nimesh19 May 2017 4:19 PM ISTNew study shows balloon in a capsule helps patients lose nearly twice as much weight than diet, exercise and lifestyle therapy alonePatients with...
Rare Surgery: Udaipur Doctors operate on world's tiniest baby weighing just 470 grams savita thakur thakur18 May 2017 4:30 PM ISTUdaipur: In an extremely rare surgery, the Doctors at Geetanjali Medical College and Hospital and Jeevanta Hospital successfully performed a heart...
1 in 5 patients undergoing weight-loss surgery develop alcohol problems: New Study supriya kashyap kashyap17 May 2017 1:27 PM ISTOne in five patients who undergo one of the most popular weight-loss surgical procedures is likely to develop problems with alcohol, with symptoms...
Robotic Surgery Breakthrough : 3D-printed bionic skin could give robots the sense of touch supriya kashyap kashyap12 May 2017 11:58 AM ISTEngineering researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a revolutionary process for 3D printing stretchable electronic sensory devices...
A transplant and a cure: Penn team eradicates hepatitis C in 10 patients supriya kashyap kashyap5 May 2017 10:59 AM ISTTen patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased donors who were...
Brain dead patient blesses six people with a new life at Jaypee Hospital supriya kashyap kashyap4 May 2017 9:30 AM ISTNoida : Jaypee Hospital, a multi super specialty hospital at sector 128 Noida, created two green corridors to give a new lease of life to six people....
First endoscopic stricturotomy with needle knife study for intestinal strictures in IBD supriya kashyap kashyap2 May 2017 11:26 AM ISTCleveland Clinic doctors have published the first study illustrating the safety and efficacy of endoscopic needle knife therapy for intestinal...
Elevated Biomarker Following Surgery Linked to Increased Risk of Death: JAMA Study supriya kashyap kashyap29 April 2017 12:13 PM ISTAmong patients undergoing non cardiac surgery, peak postoperative high-sensitivity troponin T measurements (proteins that are released when the heart...
Mental illness does not affect bariatric surgery weight loss results supriya kashyap kashyap26 April 2017 12:14 PM ISTPeople with pre-existing mental health conditions had nearly identical results in weight loss after bariatric surgery as compared to those with no...
