Looks matter more in business than we'd like to think. Appearance-conscious execs are even willing to submit to the knife if it'll boost their business confidence, according to Director magazine. City suits and senior executives are feeling pressured by increasingly youthful colleagues to stop the clock. One...
Surely we all remember some of the difficult decisions regarding patient care that we tackled as inexperienced, newly minted surgeons at the outset of clinical practice. How nice it would have been to have received support and advice from an experienced senior mentor! The paper by Patrick McDonald in this...
Little is known about the procedures used by German dental and maxillofacial surgeons treating patients suffering from Chronic Orofacial Pain COP. This study aimed to evaluate the ambulatory management of COP. Using a standardized questionnaire this study collects data of dental and maxillofacial surgeons treating patients with COP. It concludes...
The aim of this white paper study was to describe practice activity trends among oral and maxillofacial surgeons over time. The apparent stability in the volume of services provided per year reflected a counterbalancing of increased services provided per visit and a decrease in the number of visits supplied. The...
Surgeons' and hospitals' positions in league tables can make or break their reputations. They therefore need to learn how to present data in the best possible light. Although some may protest about "Sexing up" poor performance data, "Creative accounting" adds a positive spin. In contrast to the plethora of clinical...
Establishing image context is the major difficulty of performing laparoscopic ultrasound. The standard techniques used by trans-abdominal ultrasonographers to understand image orientation are difficult to apply with laparoscopic instruments. In this paper, they describe a navigation system that displays the position and orientation of laparoscopic ultrasound images to the operating...
A magnetic resonance MR compatible surgical assist robot system under preclinical evaluation is described. It is designed to coexist, and cooperate, with a surgeon, and to position and direct an axisymmetric tool, such as a laser pointer or a biopsy catheter. The main mechanical body is located above the head...
M. Patrick Lowe, MD, renowned robotic surgeonand gynecologic oncologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, willdemonstrate the use of robotic surgery to treat endometrial cancer via alive interactive webcast on www.or-live.com Thursday, July 17at 3:00 p.m. CDT. Dr. Lowe, director of the robotics and minimally invasive surgical programfor the Division...
On Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at 4:00 pm CDT, ORLive.com will broadcast a panel discussion entitled, "Access to SurgicalIntervention for Metabolic Syndrome and Other Diseases." Dr. HenryBuchwald, Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,Minnesota, will serve as moderator. The panel will include Dr. NeilHutcher, Commonwealth Surgeons, St Mary's Bon Secours...
"So, you've had a mastectomy," said the plastic surgeon. I glanced down at my breasts, which were still there. No, I hadn't, unless I'd been even more forgetful than usual, had a mastectomy. But I'd been told that I'd need one. The lumpectomy on my left breast hadn't quite cut...
Provista Life Sciences LLC PLS, a diagnosticdevelopment and commercialization company, today announced that ChristaCorn, M.D. has signed on to serve as its resident physician for the BT Test , a bloodtest for the early detection ofbreast cancer . With Dr. Corn in this role, women will now be...
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. -- AngioDynamics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANGO), a leading provider of innovative medical devices used by interventional radiologists, nephrologists and surgeons for the minimally invasive treatment of cancer and peripheral vascular disease, announced today that it will report its fiscal fourth quarter and full-year 2008 financial results on Thursday, July 24,...
COLUMBIA, Maryland, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Orthocrat, Ltd announced today that Duke University Hospital, in Durham, North Carolina, has purchased TraumaCadTM. Duke University Hospital is on the Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals, as published by U.S. News and World Report. It is listed in the Top...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- NovaBone Products, LLC NBP has released a new form of the synthetic bone graft, NovaBone Putty[R] bone graft substitute. "Surgeons now have a synthetic that handles more easily," said Arthur Wotiz, CEO of NovaBone Products. "NovaBone Bioactive Synthetic Graft is the only bone graft substitute that has...
NEW YORK -- IRX Therapeutics, a privately-held company dedicated to the discovery and development of proprietary therapies for the treatment of cancer and viral diseases, today announced that a symposium on findings from its Phase 2 clinical trial of IRX-2 will be held on July 22, 2008 at 6:30 am...
Join head and neck surgeons, Dr. LisaOrloff and Dr. David Terris, for a live webcast on technical advances in Parotidectomy and Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy surgeries . The freeone-hour live presentation is scheduled to take place at 3:00 p.m. PDT(6:00 p.m. EDT) from the University of California San Francisco...
Cardiovascular surgeon whose innovations revolutionised the treatment of heart patients Michael DeBakey was the world's most innovative heart surgeon. A high-flier from his student days, he was one of the first surgeons to operate on the heart, performing 60,000 operations over 70 years with exceptional skill and...
One of the country's leading sports doctors reports that he's performing more surgeries on sprained elbows in young athletes, a fact that reflects higher numbers of children focusing on just one sport. The findings suggest that more young athletes are specializing only in baseball and putting their arms at risk,...
Successful Gastrotomy Closure Technique Overcomes Main Hurdle to Widespread Adoption of Incisionless NOTES Surgery SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- USGI Medical, Inc. USGI announced today that Santiago Horgan, M.D., director of the UC San Diego Center for the Future of Surgery, used the company's EndoSurgical...
Dr. DeBakey was Mentor and Inspiration to Local Heart Surgeon PHOENIX, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Physicians and staff of Arizona Heart Institute remember Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. who died this past weekend at the age of 99. Dr. DeBakey, world-famous cardiovascular surgeon who performed the world's...
