Recent news on Abdominal Surgery

Actress Lainie Kazan Turns the Spotlight on DVTs  -  25 May 2007
HealthCentral.com,Or any kind of abdominal surgery, pelvic surgery," explained Dr. Massimo Napolitano, chief of vascular surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center, NJ.

Med students tour Cornwall  -  25 May 2007
Standard Freeholder,During an abdominal surgery yesterday morning at the Cornwall Community Hospital, medical student Eric Oh was allowed to hold the forceps.

Castro says he's fit as a fiddle  -  25 May 2007
CNN-IBN,However, at that time, the Cuban government had released a counter statement saying that Castro was simply recovering from an abdominal surgery.

Mayor fine after elective surgery  -  May 17, 2007
Peterborough Examiner,Mayor Paul Ayotte underwent a successful elective surgery he had scheduled for yesterday to correct something related to the emergency abdominal surgery he

Mayor Ayotte 'doing well' after elective surgery  -  May 17, 2007
Kawartha Media Group,While the City isn't describing the nature of Mayor Ayotte's surgery, he did have emergency abdominal surgery last fall prior to his convincing municipal

Doctors study operating through body's own openings for scar-free ...  -  May 15, 2007
Sauk Valley Newspapers,As for abdominal surgery, a few procedures have been done in people, but nearly all the research so far has been in animals. There are still plenty of

Boy who swallowed toy magnets OK after abdominal surgery  -  Apr 30, 2007
Chicago Sun-Times,BY STEVE PATTERSON Staff Reporter/spatterson@suntimes.com. The Gurnee boy's family could tell after he opened them at his grandfather's house in 2005.

Ibrahimovic has abdominal surgery  -  Apr 27, 2007
International Herald Tribune,AP. Inter said the operation was carried out in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and was successful. The club did not provide details of how long Ibrahimovic will be

Surgery to keep mayor out of office  -  May 8, 2007
Peterborough Examiner,The elective surgery has been scheduled to correct something related to the emergency abdominal surgery he had during municipal election last fall,

Scar-free surgery procedures explored  -  Apr 30, 2007
CBC Saskatchewan,Dr. David Rattner on the hopes of natural opening abdominal surgery. It's a startling concept and a little unpleasant to contemplate.

Doctors study scarless surgery through body’s openings  -  Apr 30, 2007
Tuscaloosa News (subscription),As for abdominal surgery, a few procedures have been done on people, but nearly all the research so far has been on animals. There are still plenty of

Scar-free surgery via body's natural openings outlined  -  Apr 29, 2007
New Philadelphia Times Reporter,...nAs for abdominal surgery, a few procedures have been done in people, but nearly all the research so far has been in animals. There are still plenty of

Scar-free surgery  -  May 1, 2007
The South African Star (subscription),As for abdominal surgery, a few procedures have been done in people, but nearly all the research so far has been in animals.

Scar-free surgery may cut pain, too  -  Apr 30, 2007
Akron Beacon Journal,For abdominal surgery, going through the mouth, vagina or rectum would avoid the need to cut through sensitive tissues. And deep inside the body,

Will scar-free surgery live up to the hype?  -  May 2, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),A RADICAL approach to abdominal surgery is gaining ground. Pioneered in India, it is being touted as one of the most significant developments in surgery for

Gall-Bladder Surgery through Vagina  -  Apr 27, 2007
Prensa Latina,The April 2 procedure saved post-surgery pain and team head Doctor Jacques Marescaux called it further perfection of abdominal surgery.

'Leakage' surgeries have pros and cons  -  May 22, 2007
Deseret News,And some of the benefits of the sling go away in certain cases, including for a woman who is already having an open-abdominal surgery.

2ND ROUTE TO ORGAN REMOVAL  -  May 15, 2007
New York Post,..."We can make the observation that some of the pain and slow recovery that were just assumed to be a mandatory part of intra-abdominal surgery actually

Gall Bladder Removed Vaginally Using Endoscope With Minimal ...  -  Apr 25, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),This latest revolutionary advance -- abdominal surgery through a natural orifice -- represents the culmination of this progression," says Dr. Bessler,

Study compares two common incontinence treatments  -  May 21, 2007
Deseret News,And some of the benefits of the sling go away in certain cases, including for a woman who is already having an open-abdominal surgery.

Nurse’s kindness was the best medicine of all  -  May 2, 2007
Buffalo News,March 29 — I’d known for months that on this day, I would have laparoscopic abdominal surgery at Buffalo General Hospital.

Reaching Finals Not Enough  -  May 22, 2007
Press-Enterprise (subscription),It's not the trophy that kept Teemu Selanne around, not what drove Todd Marchant to return from abdominal surgery in four weeks, and definitely not the

Mayor goes off duty; Surgery means Ayotte steps away from city hall  -  May 9, 2007
Peterborough Examiner,The elective surgery has been scheduled to correct something related to the emergency abdominal surgery he had last fall during the municipal election

Fewer C-sections with midwives, doulas?  -  May 13, 2007
New Brunswick Home News Tribune,Diegmann says that couples who wish to avoid delivering via abdominal surgery tend to seek out midwives, adding that midwives "are sought after by women

Doctor employs new scalpel device  -  May 10, 2007
Moultrie Observer,Before the Harmonic Scalpel, an abdominal surgery required the surgeon uses sutures to gather tissue, which can causes pain and potential for more infection

FDA Approves Lovenox® (Enoxaparin Sodium Injection) For The Most ...  -  May 20, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),...in patients undergoing abdominal surgery who are at risk for thromboembolic complications; in patients undergoing hip replacement surgery (during and

Laparoscopic surgery now at public hospital  -  May 17, 2007
Stabroek News,A press release from the Ministry of Health noted that laparoscopic surgery is minimally invasive abdominal surgery using enhanced technology that allows

FDA approves Omrix sealant for vascular surgery  -  May 17, 2007
Globes,Omirx has now registered the product for use in abdominal surgery. When approval is obtained for the three indications, the company will be able to file

Pushing Panacryl and Vicryl Sutures: Is Fluffy next?  -  May 21, 2007
Lawyers and Settlements,2006, after a significant number of mostly abdominal surgery patients suffered nasty after-effects from use of the sutures: painful infections,

FDA Approves Lovenox(R) (Enoxaparin Sodium Injection) for the Most ...  -  May 17, 2007
Juraforum.de,...inpatients undergoing abdominal surgery who are at risk forthromboembolic complications; in patients undergoing hip replacementsurgery (during and

Transfer a first for Iraqi air force  -  May 16, 2007
AirForceTimes.com,Both of the evacuees were Iraqi soldiers from northern Iraq, stationed in Baghdad, who had suffered abdominal wounds and had undergone abdominal surgery in

IMA to 'supervise' academic medical research to avoid fraud  -  May 6, 2007
Jerusalem Post,The study claimed to compare the cases of patients who had hernia repair with open abdominal surgery with those who had keyhole surgery - a total of 947 men

Pfizer, Eisai Get Additional Fragmin OK  -  May 2, 2007
Forbes,...deep-vein thrombosis, also a type of blood clot, in patients undergoing hip replacement surgery and in at-risk patients undergoing abdominal surgery.

Some surgeons forgo cuts  -  Apr 30, 2007
Jackson Clarion Ledger,By using body's own openings, doctors can work without scarring. By Malcolm Ritter. AP. AP. PITTSBURGH — A 4-year-old boy lay on an operating table here a

Iraqi AF Capabilities Increase  -  May 18, 2007
Military.comBoth of the evacuees May 8 were Iraqi soldiers from northern Iraq stationed in Baghdad who had suffered abdominal wounds and had undergone abdominal surgery

IRAQI AIR FORCE PERFORMS DOUBLE PATIENT TRANSFER  -  May 17, 2007
Media Newswire (press release),Both of the evacuees were Iraqi Soldiers from northern Iraq, stationed in Baghdad, who had suffered abdominal wounds and had undergone abdominal surgery in

Death probed at El Cajon mall  -  May 10, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune,...about 5 feet 6 inches tall, 120 to 130 pounds, with blonde hair. She had two butterfly tattoos on her back and an apparently recent abdominal surgery scar.

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