Serenity Springs Wildlife Center to Attempt Snow Tiger Surgery

Julie Walker, Director of Operations, Serenity Springs Wildlife Center, has announced that the non-profit wildlife sanctuary, after consulting with big cat experts, would assemble the veterinary team and attempt to raise the funds to provide special modifications...

Pulse Oximetry: A Viable Screening Tool for Infants with Suspected Congenital Heart Disease

Pulse oximetry, a non-invasive procedure that measures the amount of oxygen in the bloodstream, can be used as a screening tool to detect critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) in infants, and is more readily available than echocardiography, the current...

Study Finds Payment for Pediatric Obesity Services Now Can Save Money Later

Pediatric obesity ends up costing $3 billion annually in the U.S., but a significant amount of that could be saved by streamlining medical coverage to address health issues affecting young obese patients now rather than waiting to treat conditions they...

Researchers Develop New Way to Predict Heart Transplant Survival

Johns Hopkins researchers say they have developed a formula to predict which heart transplant patients are at greatest risk of death in the year following their surgeries, information that could help medical teams figure out who would benefit most from...

Stanford Researchers Invent Sutureless Method for Joining Blood Vessels

Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today — with sutures — as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advancing the technique. Now, a team of researchers at the Stanford University...

Nigeria Performs Its Second Successful Kidney Transplant

Nigeria has recorded a major medical breakthrough by performing another successful kidney transplant. The medical feat was achieved by a team of surgeons of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Lagos on Tuesday.

Arthroscopy And Open Surgery are Equally Efficacious in Treating Common Hip Problem in Most Patients

Researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery have found that in comparison to open surgery, arthroscopic treatment of a common hip problem that leads to arthritis produces similar outcomes in terms of repairing structural problems in most patients. The...

Onset of Osteoarthritis May be Related to a Loss of Knee Motion After Reconstructive ACL Surgery

The onset of osteoarthritis may be related to a loss of knee motion after reconstructive ACL surgery, as noted in new research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, July 7-10,...

Artificial Disc a Viable Alternative to Fusion for 2-level Disc Disease

When two adjacent discs in the low back wear out, become compressed and cause unmanageable pain, numbness or other symptoms, replacement with artificial discs can be a viable alternative to standard fusion surgery, based on two-year post-surgery data...