January 30, 2015
(The Telegraph) – A surgical robot fitted with multiple arms has carried out its debut operation in England, in a technology breakthrough which will make new treatments possible for the first time. The Da Vinci XI, which is hand operated … Read More
January 30, 2015
(Sci Dev Net) – Residents of Iraqi areas under Islamic State (ISIS) control are suffering from health problems due to a breakdown in local health services, shortages of medicines and contaminated drinking water. Iraq’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that … Read More
January 30, 2015
(Vox) – Medical errors kill more people than car crashes or new disease outbreaks. They kill more people annually than breast cancer, AIDS, plane crashes, or drug overdoses. Depending which estimate you use, medical errors are either the 3rd or … Read More
January 30, 2015
(NPR) – Many veterans who served in World War II and the Korean War are now finding themselves needing end-of-life care. These vets are served by hospice care facilities across the country. But caring for vets isn’t always the same … Read More
January 30, 2015
(BBC) – Anyone who might receive treatment by the South Central Ambulance Service for cardiac arrest must choose to opt out of a trial that could see them receive a placebo instead of adrenaline. The study begins in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, … Read More
January 30, 2015
(Bloomberg) – Watson, an artificial intelligence technology that IBM wants to sell to help doctors diagnose diseases, will largely escape the oversight of U.S. regulators if the computer giant wins a two-year Washington lobbying push. International Business Machines Corp.’s argument … Read More
January 29, 2015
(New Scientist) – People with “classic” locked-in syndrome are fully conscious but completely paralysed apart from eye movements. Adrian Owen of Western University in London, Canada, fears that there is another form of the condition where the paralysis is total. … Read More
January 29, 2015
(Medical Xpress) – Microbiologists and chemists at the University of South Florida have developed and patented a synthetic compound that has shown antibiotic action against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA, which can cause many serious infections and … Read More
January 29, 2015
(Scientific American) – Hypothermia is common among patients during the first hour of anesthesia, despite the use of forced air warming to maintain core temperature, a study in nearly 60,000 surgical patients shows. And the longer patients were hypothermic, the … Read More
January 29, 2015
(CNN) – I’ve been here 10 days now, and spent last weekend on call at ELWA Hospital, the 55-bed facility that SIM runs just outside Monrovia, Liberia’s capital city. The news here is good — the Ebola epidemic really seems … Read More
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