News on Medical Treatments and Procedures

Afghanistan

2010-03-14T08:45:35Z

Afghan President Hamid Karzai drops polio vaccines to an Afghan boy during a polio vaccination campaign at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Study: Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery

2010-03-14T13:00:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Mini clothespin gives safer way to fix leaky valves without open-heart surgery, study finds</div><div><p>Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as surgery, doctors reported Sunday.</p><p>The device is already on sale in Europe, and its maker,...

Jets coach Rex Ryan has weight-loss surgery

2010-03-14T00:15:09Z

<div id="subtitle">New York Jets coach Rex Ryan undergoes lap-band procedure to help lose weight</div><div><p>Jets coach Rex Ryan underwent a weight-loss procedure Saturday to help him fight obesity.</p><p>The husky Ryan had lap-band surgery at NYU Medical Center, and was relaxing at his h...

US court rejects vaccine-autism link

2010-03-13T12:15:39Z

<div><p>A special US court Friday ruled against the parents of an autistic child, rejecting their claim of a connection between autism and a triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) their son was given.</p><p>In a similar ruling a year ago against three other families, the United States Court of Federal Claims said th...

Court says thimerosal did not cause autism

2010-03-12T18:30:13Z

<div id="subtitle">Special court rejects claims that vaccines with mercury preservative caused autism</div><div><p>The vaccine additive thimerosal is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a long-running battle by parents convinced there is a connection.</p><p>While expressing sympathy for the parents involved in the emotionally charged cases, the court concluded they had failed to show a connection between the mercury-containing pres...

U.S. court rules again against vaccine-autism claims

2010-03-12T15:00:53Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame vaccines for their children's illness.</p><p>The special President Obama</div><div><p>Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggests that many Americans are being overtreated. Maybe even President Barack Obama, champion of an overhaul and cost-cutting of the health care system.</p><p>Is it doctors practicing defens...

Unnecessary Tests

2010-03-12T03:00:54Z

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2007, file photo released by the University of Wisconsin Medical School shows a virtual colonoscopy, a 3-D image that was computer-generated from a series of X-rays taken by a CT scanner. Virtual colonoscopies are just one of the many costly medical tests that recent reports have said are being done too often. (AP Photo/ Courtesy of Reuters) - Several drug firms have agreed on a landmark deal to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations, according to the global immunization alliance that is overseeing the deal.</p><p>Leading manufacturers of such vaccines include GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer ends study on potential lung cancer drug, committee says it won't meet treatment goal</div><div><p>Pfizer Inc. said Thursday it discontinued a late-stage study of the drug candidate figitumumab in patients with late-stage lung cancer, citing a lack of effectiveness.</p><p>The company said an independent monitoring committee recommended stopping the study. It concluded that figitumu...

Watson says FDA approves 6-month dose Trelstar

2010-03-11T15:00:28Z

<div id="subtitle">Watson Pharmaceuticals says FDA approves 6-month dose of prostate cancer drug Trelstar</div><div><p>Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. said the Food and Drug Administration approved a six-month dose of the prostate cancer drug Trelstar, which already was available in one- and three-month d...

Mubarak's health 'satisfactory': German medical chief

2010-03-11T11:16:18Z

<div><p>Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak's health is "satisfactory" after surgery in Germany to remove a gall bladder, the head of the medical team at Heidelberg University Hospital said on Thursday.</p><p>"President Hosni Mubarak's overal...

Study suggests too many invasive heart tests given

2010-03-10T16:16:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Study suggests too many low-risk patients given invasive heart tests, docs need better methods</div><div><p>A troublingly high number of U.S. patients who are given angiograms to check for heart disease turn out not to have a significant problem, according to the latest study to suggest Americans get an excess of medical tests.</p><p>The researchers said the findings suggest doctors must do better in determining which patients should be subj...

Panel: Women need chance to avoid repeat C-section

2010-03-10T14:18:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Govt panel finds too many women denied chance to avoid repeat C-section, urges policy change</div><div><p>Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section."</p><p>Fifteen years ago, nearly 3 in 10 women who had a first...

ANGIOGRAM

2010-03-10T14:18:43Z

Graphic shows how a cardiac angiogram is administered

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Fetus Picture 3D Ultrasound Advantages

2010-03-10T20:42:32Z

Do you want a clear and more complete picture of youth child while it is in the womb? For years, it has been hard to make out those unclear ultrasound pictures and accurately notice what going on in there. This is no longer the case. There are now 3D ultrasound fetus pictures that can show you your child in incredible detail. Today when you go to have your ultrasound, you can experience your child in complete 3D with stunning ımages and well explained features.<br><br>Whe...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Still Good For Menopause?

2010-03-10T18:14:23Z

Hormone replacement therapy, now more commonly known as hormone therapy, use to be medical worlds standard treatment for those women suffering from hot flashes and other side effects of going through menopause. They also thought that it could help prevent osteoporosis and even heart disease.<br><br>In 2002 however; the minds of many in the medical field changed when they saw the results of a clinical test. What the test uncovered is that the hormone replacement therapy could actua...

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

2010-03-10T10:01:06Z

<div id="subtitle">Cuba once persecuted homosexuals, transsexuals, now quietly pays for sex-change operations</div><div><p>Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach.</p><p>"I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's un...

Canadian vaccination study proves 'herd immunity'

2010-03-09T13:46:58Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Inoculating children against flu protects more people of all ages in the larger community, probably because young people tend to spread viruses through physical play, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday.</p><p>Researchers at McMaster University in