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Study: Text-messaging strangers reduces need for pain relief during minor surgeries
2015-04-28 13:27:02| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Patients who text messaged a stranger just before minor surgeries required less supplemental pain relief than patients receiving standard therapy or distraction techniques, according to a recently published study conducted by researchers at RTI International, Cornell University and LaSalle Hospital . The study, published in Pain Medicine and funded by Cornell University, showed that mobile phones provide new opportunities for social support, improving patient comfort and reducing the need for pain relief during minor surgeries and in other clinical settings at a very low cost.
Google Now Enters Operating Room To Assist Robotic Surgeries
2015-04-01 05:49:22| Food - Topix.net
Dr. Benjamin Warf washes his hands before operating on the spine of four-year-old Emma Guarino to debulk an intraspinal lipoma and untether her spinal cord at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts May 14, 2013. Guarino suffers from spina bifida, a developmental congenital disorder caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube.
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Micro-Laparoscopic Instruments achieve near scar-less surgeries.
2014-06-27 14:31:57| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
CareFusion MicroLap offers reusable platform with instruments as small as 2.7 mm dia. Resulting incision scar eliminates need to close incision site with sutures in some procedures. Constructed of ceramic titanium alloy, hand instruments include graspers, dissectors, scissors, and needle holders. Scopes are come in 2.7 and 2.9 mm dia options, and varying lens angles are available. Available products also include electrosurgical options as well as suction and irrigation tools. This story is related to the following:Test and Measuring InstrumentsSearch for suppliers of: Laparoscopic Instruments | Surgical Instruments
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Device aims to eliminate multiple breast-cancer surgeries
2013-06-27 15:29:20| CNET News.com
Grad students at Johns Hopkins say their prototype device can inspect excised breast tissue so fast that more can be removed -- if necessary -- during the same operation. [Read more]
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Medical Workers Strike, UCSD Cancels Surgeries
2013-05-21 21:18:21| Biotech - Topix.net
About 13,000 union workers at five University of California medical centers, including the one in San Diego, began a two-day strike Tuesday.
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