Facebook boosts organ donor registration
Johns Hopkins researchers see 21-fold increase in a single day. A social media push boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in a… read more.
Johns Hopkins researchers see 21-fold increase in a single day. A social media push boosted the number of people who registered themselves as organ donors 21-fold in a… read more.
Dr Erin Dunbar, Assistant Professor and Co. Director, Preston A. Wells, Jr. Center for Brain Tumor Therapy, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Florida.
A new study reveals significant hospital-to-hospital variability in patient death rates following emergency surgical admissions in England. Published early online in the BJS (British Journal of Surgery), the study also… read more.
A review of the presentation by Jaume Capdevila, Barcelona Spain. Unfortunately Neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) are often advanced at the time of diagnosis and the 5 year survival ranges… read more.
Poster 67 Elizabeth Goode elizabeth.goode@nnuh.nhs.uk. Chemotherapy is an independent risk factor for thromboembolism (TE), although current guidelines do not recommend routine use of anti-thrombin agents in this setting.
Spinal injections of steroids, intended to relieve back pain, increased bone fragility in the vertebrae of older patients, a retrospective analysis found.
Heart surgery patients reported persistent pain for at least 4 weeks after the procedure, and that pain appeared to manifest as shortened total sleep time, researchers reported.
by Bruce Sylvester – European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) researchers from the AMAROS (After Mapping of the Axilla: Radiotherapy Or Surgery?) trial reported… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – over 30,000 clinicians and researchers attended the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 annual meeting in Chicago on May 31-June 4. Among the most… read more.
Bruise Control trial found that patients who were operated on without interrupting warfarin were 80 percent less likely to develop a significant hematoma after surgery compared to patients… read more.
A randomized trial comparing robotic with open cystectomy ended early after an interim analysis showed the minimally invasive approach did not reduce complications, according to a researchers.
Antibiotics for acute rhinosinusitis (ARS) are prescribed frequently – especially for younger adult patients and in primary care settings – despite recent consensus guidelines that discourage antibiotic use… read more.
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