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| Angioplasty costs are higher at non-surgery hospitals Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 07:06 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Angioplasty to clear blocked arteries costs more at hospitals not equipped for emergency heart surgery, according to a study presented on Sunday at the American Heart Association scientific meeting. Elective angioplasty is becoming increasingly common at hospitals that do not conduct more complicated heart procedures. During angioplasty, doctors insert a balloon-tipped catheter into an artery and inflate a balloon to open the narrowed blood vessel. ... Full Story | Top |
| Young doctors: fewer hours means they're less tired, less prepared Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 04:59 PM PST (Reuters) - Orthopedic surgeons-in-training said they were tired less often after rules regulating how much they could work went into place, according to a U.S. survey. But the results published in the Annals of Surgery found the trainee doctors didn't actually get any more sleep under the limited work hours policy, and also said they felt less prepared as doctors and were less satisfied with their education. In July 2003, the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bypass tops stents in diabetics with diseased arteries Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 04:52 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Diabetics with more than one diseased artery fared significantly better if they underwent bypass surgery than those who received drug coated stents following artery clearing procedures to improve blood flow to the heart, according to data from a five-year study presented on Sunday. After five years, the bypass group had a lower combined rate of heart attacks, strokes and deaths of 18.7 percent versus 26.6 percent for the stent group in the 1,900-patient study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. ... Full Story | Top |
| Metal-removing therapy may help some heart patients-study Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 04:36 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A controversial therapy to remove heavy metals from the bloodstream was shown in a large trial to cut the risk of another major heart problem in patients who have already suffered a heart attack, but researchers cautioned that the benefit was small and more study is needed. Chelation therapy, an alternative treatment dismissed by many medical professionals as quackery, has its origins in unproven 50-year-old theories about the cause of arterial plaques, the fatty deposits that can cause heart attacks. ... Full Story | Top |
| The nearer the bar, the greater the chances of risky drinking: study Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 04:21 PM PST (Reuters) - Living near a bar appears to encourage some people to overimbibe, with moving closer to a drinking establishment prompting some to up their alcohol intake, according to a Finnish study. Researchers whose findings appeared in the journal Addiction followed nearly 55,000 Finnish adults for seven years and found that those who moved closer to bars were somewhat more likely to increase their drinking. ... Full Story | Top |
| Scientists say heartbeat, not battery, could power pacemakers Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 03:56 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Your own beating heart may generate enough electricity to power a heart-regulating pacemaker, ending the need for expensive surgeries to replace expiring batteries, according to an early study of an experimental energy-converting device. Researchers at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor tested an energy-harvesting device that runs on piezoelectricity - the electrical charge generated from motion, according to the study which was released at the annual American Heart Association scientific conference on Sunday. ... Full Story | Top |
| NYU,Coney Island to take outpatients, Bellevue closed Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 03:19 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York University's Langone Medical Center and Coney Island Hospital plan to start offering some outpatient services on Monday but Bellevue hospital is expected to remain shut for about two weeks after superstorm Sandy closed the hospital. New York University's Langone Medical Center said on Sunday that its emergency department remains closed and it had no update as to when it will be able take in over-night patients again or when its emergency room would be back up and running. ... Full Story | Top |
| Drugmakers offer to cap Greece's medicines bill Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 02:39 PM PST LONDON (Reuters) - International drug companies have offered to cap the total amount the Greek government has to pay for its medicines in a bid to resolve a crisis that is jeopardizing both the supply of drugs to patients and drugmakers' profits. The proposal was set out by the trade group the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (Efpia) in a letter to the Greek ministers of health and finance, a copy of which was seen by Reuters. In exchange for a ceiling on outpatient pharmaceutical expenditure of 2.88 billion euros ($3. ... Full Story | Top |
| Saudi confirms third case of newly discovered SARS-like virus Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 08:51 AM PST ABU DHABI (Reuters) - A Saudi citizen in the capital Riyadh is the world's third confirmed case of a newly discovered SARS-related virus but he has now recovered from his illness, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. The potentially deadly novel coronavirus is from the same family as SARS but had only been confirmed in two previous cases: a 60-year-old Saudi man who died earlier this year, and a man from Qatar who was treated in a London hospital. ... Full Story | Top |
| Sanofi considered moving headquarters abroad: report Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 08:04 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi's management considered moving its headquarters abroad in the last few months but the plan was nixed by the drugmaker's chairman, French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche reported on Sunday, citing sources close to the board. First mooted in July, when the Socialist government was preparing to introduce a 75 percent tax on top earnings, the plan envisaged moving the headquarters to London or the United States, or at least relocating Chief Executive Chris Viehbacher and his closest associates abroad. ... Full Story | Top |
| Turkish ex-president's autopsy fuels poisoning speculation Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 07:22 AM PST  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - An autopsy on late President Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey out of military rule in the 1980s and whose body was exhumed last month, will reveal he was poisoned, his son believes, calling for a full investigation of the "dark years" two decades ago when he died. Ahmet Ozal was speaking after a newspaper report said high levels of poison had been identified by the autopsy, carried out after his father's body was dug up on the orders of prosecutors investigating suspicions of foul play in his death. State forensic authorities have denied the media report. ... Full Story | Top |
| Insight: Sandy shows hospitals unprepared when disaster hits home Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 06:30 AM PST  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kim Bondy was in New Orleans seven years ago when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, and scores of patients died in flooded hospitals cut off from power. She never thought that she might face that danger herself. But on Monday night, as superstorm Sandy submerged parts of New York City, Bondy was one of 215 patients evacuated from New York University's Langone Medical Center after basement flooding from the East River cut off its electricity. ... Full Story | Top |
| Israel's Neuronix offers new Alzheimer's treatment Sunday, Nov 04, 2012 01:35 AM PST TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel-based Neuronix, which has developed a non-invasive medical device to help to treat Alzheimer's disease, expects the system to be approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in late 2014. The device, which combines electromagnetic stimulation with computer-based cognitive training, is already approved for use in Europe, Israel and several Asian countries. In Singapore it is approved for clinical trial use and the application for registration of the product is still under evaluation. ... Full Story | Top |
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