Archive for December, 2009

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Exam May Be Better than CT for Predicting Postop Complications – MedPage Today

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

However, three of 10 patients (30%) who had a postoperative CT scan ordered because of a problem identified during a bedside neurological exam required emergency surgery. “Scanning technology is really good,” Origitano said in a statement. ” >> more CT Scan >>

(Ivanhoe Newswire) Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not strictly modern, but afflicted ancient people, too. “Atherosclerosis is >> more CT Scan >>

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Teresa Heinz says she has breast cancer, slams federal mammography – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

BOSTON – Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the tests despite a federal panel’s recent recommendation to reduce their frequency. The 71-year >> Mammography >>

Dr. Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, voiced strong support for annual mammography for women beginning at age 40 in an Op-Ed piece published November 20, 2009, in newspapers nationwide. This position is in sharp >> Mammography >>

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PEOPLE ON THE MOVE – Morning Journal

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Kaple, of Executive Court Medical Associates in Norwalk and Milan, recently achieved the degree of fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians Medical Center receives cardiology foundation achievement award for 2009 EMH Regional Medical >> Cardiology >>

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Patient Factors Mar Accuracy of Multi-Detector CT Scans – US News and World Report

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

TUESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) — A type of computed tomography scan used to detect coronary artery disease can be affected by factors such as a patient’s ethnicity, height/weight ratio and heart rate, researchers have found. The scanning >> Angiography >>

Gender differences persist in the quality of cardiac care across Ontario, according to a health study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES). Ontario women who had heart attacks were less >> Angiography >>

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Anaesthesia overdose causes another brain-death – Nation

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

MULTAN – The alleged negligence of doctors of Nishtar Hospital has brought another young man, Muhammad Asif, 28, to the deathbed, as the anaesthesia overdose administered to him during an operation allegedly caused his brain-death. The ill-fated >> more CT Scan >>

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Obesity Predicts Poorer Image Quality on CT Angiography – MedPage Today

Friday, December 25th, 2009

Explain that obesity, high heart rate, and black race were associated with poorer image quality on CT angiography, but they weren’t associated with reduced diagnostic accuracy. However, coronary artery calcification was associated with reduced >> Angiography News >>

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