... can quickly scan images and record video. Integrated onto fiber-optic probes, the lenses further could reduce the invasiveness of such minimally invasive diagnostic medical procedures as endoscopies.
The Bush administration announced new protections for health care providers who oppose abortion and other medical procedures on religious or moral grounds.
... Bloodstream infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , or MRSA, have dropped 50% in the last decade, at least for one high-risk medical procedure, according to a new study.
In 2006, Americans were exposed to more than seven times as much ionizing radiation from medical procedures as was the case in the early 1980s, according to a new report. In 2006, medical exposure ...
... just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before ... school. Faculty physicians rated 14 procedures as "must know," while new physicians ...
... a possible new reason for some of the common side effects—loss of taste, short term memory loss—of medical procedures that require blood to be circulated through plastic tubing outside ...
... past research has shown that almost any medical procedure has the potential for a placebo effect or to cause a ... symptom-free days and needed rescue medication (fast-acting bronchodilators) less often ...
... . Insurance companies' billing claims provide records of physician visits, hospitalizations, and medical procedures that could be used to conduct timely, cost-effective, and unobtrusive research on ...
... radiology professionals have long recognized that there needs to be conscientious implementation of medical procedures that deliver ionizing radiation and have assumed a collective responsibility for ...
... level, the technology developed by the engineers could make certain contemporary medical procedures safer for patients, they said.
For their experiments, the engineers started with a rudimentary ...
... given way to technologies such as PET (short for positron emission tomography) scans, which are medical procedures that use special isotopes to target specific types of tumors.
Isotopes are the ...
Even very premature babies benefit from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers during painful medical procedures, a Canadian study has found.
... suffering from urinary incontinence following a surgical procedure. Two studies presented today at the 103rd ... 1:30 p.m. Certain medical procedures, including transurethral resection of the prostate ...
Using animals to assist with human medical procedures is nothing new. Leeches can help heal skin grafts by restoring circulation in blocked veins and removing pooled blood ...
... , tested at a Washington, D.C. hospital, that enables doctors to manipulate digital images during medical procedures by motioning instead of touching a screen, keyboard or mouse ...
