Kenyan Woman Rescued after Six Days in Building Collapse
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan woman was rescued Thursday after being trapped for six days in the rubble of a collapsed building.
A crowd applauded in celebration as the woman was carried away on a stretcher covered by a blanket and with an oxygen tank by her side to a Kenya Red Cross ambulance. The rescue was broadcast live on Kenyan television.
Before military engineers managed to break through the slabs of concrete that had trapped her medics had managed to give the woman oxygen and intravenously administer water and glucose, Kenya's Disaster Management Unit said. "This is a miracle," said Pius Masai, the ...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - May 5, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News Rescue & Vehicle Extrication Source Type: news
Doctors repair severely damaged gullet, using stents and donated human skin
Patient continues to eat normally and swallow without problems, seven years after procedureRelated items from OnMedicaScientists ‘grow’ human blood vesselsScientists 'grow' working kidneyReconstructive surgery firstsStem cells repair damaged heartsParalysed man walks after stem cell breakthrough (Source: OnMedica Latest News)
Source: OnMedica Latest News - April 10, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Young man's oesophagus regrows from life-saving surgery after car crash
Doctors last night welcomed the breakthrough as a milestone in regenerative medicine, which offers particular hope for those suffering from oesophageal cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Interventions for dysphagia in long-term, progressive muscle disease
Normal swallowing function is divided into oral, pharyngeal, and oesophageal phases. The anatomy and physiology of the oral cavity facilitates an oral preparatory phase of swallowing, in which food and liquid are pushed towards the pharynx by the tongue. During pharyngeal and oesophageal phases of swallowing, food and liquid are moved from the pharynx to the stomach via the oesophagus. Our understanding of swallowing function in health and disease has informed our understanding of how muscle weakness can disrupt swallowing in people with muscle disease. As a common complication of long-term, progressive muscle disease, the...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - March 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
McDonald's customers STEPPED OVER man choking to death to order food
Spina bifida sufferer Mike Ore (pictured) collapsed when the meal he was eating blocked his oesophagus as he sat in his wheelchair at the fast food restaurant in Cheltenham's High Street. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mauna Kea inks global commercialization deal with Cook Medical
Mauna Kea (ENT:MKEA) said today it inked a global commercialization partnership deal with Cook Medical for urology applications of its Cellvizio platform.
Cellvizio is a confocal laser endomicroscopy system that provides images of cells and, in current implementations, helps doctors diagnose cancers of the stomach, oesophagus and bile ducts, Mauna Kea said.
“We’re extremely pleased to partner with a global market leader such as Cook Medical to address the urology market with our unique confocal laser endomicroscopy technology. This 1st global commercial partnership is a major milestone of our new strategy t...
Source: Mass Device - December 10, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Business/Financial News Imaging Cook Medical Mauna Kea Technologies Source Type: news
Mauna Kea looks to Medtronic, Stryker, others for help in commercializing Cellvizio
Mauna Kea (ENT:MKEA) founder & CEO Sacha Loiseau is looking to some of the biggest names in medtech for help in commercializing its Cellvizio device in the U.S. after winning 510(k) clearance from the FDA last month.
Paris-based Mauna Kea could ink a deal by the end of the year that would allow it to speed Cellvizio to market here. The device was cleared for use in surgical procedures to diagnose cancer; Cellvizio provides images of cells and helps doctors diagnose cancers of the stomach, oesophagus and bile ducts. MKEA shares jumped almost 60% in a single day after it was approved by the FDA.
“We can now a...
Source: Mass Device - November 13, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Imaging Surgical Wall Street Beat Intuitive Surgical Inc. Karl Storz Mauna Kea Technologies Medtronic Novadaq Olympus Source Type: news
Cancer Research UK's aspirin trial could be a game-changer for the disease
The study will recruit 11,000 patients from across the UK who have recently had - or are having - treatment for bowel, breast, oesophagus, prostate or stomach cancer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Head and neck cancer audit: large variances in survival rates reported
The national head and neck cancer audit has found that the four year crude survival rate from the head and neck group of cancers ranged from over 60% in patients diagnosed with cancer of the voice box (larynx) to only 33% in patients with cancer of the hypopharynx (the area where the larynx and oesophagus meet). (Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - October 9, 2015 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Man who woke up coughing is shocked to learn he had swallowed his FALSE TEETH while asleep
Scans revealed the denture - which had a sharp clasp - was lodged 32cm down the man's oesophagus, after he swallowed it while sleeping, according to doctors writing in BMJ Case Reports. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Too soon for 'aspirin doubles cancer survival' claim
Conclusion
This large observational study, which is being presented at The European Cancer Congress 2015, used official data to look at whether using aspirin after being diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancer influenced survival in a population.
Because the results are only available as a brief conference abstract and press release and given the apparent discrepancies between the sources – it is difficult to give further appraisal or interpretation of the results. Publication of the study in a peer-reviewed journal is needed to be able to understand the strengths and limitations of this study.
The main limitation of this...
Source: NHS News Feed - September 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medication Cancer Source Type: news
"I and love and you" Expands Voluntary Recall of Beef Gullet Strips Due to Possible Health Risk
NatPets LLC, d/b/a "I and love and you," of Boulder, CO (the "Company"), is expanding its voluntary recall of cow-boom! strips - beef gullet because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - September 22, 2015 Category: Food Science Source Type: news
Video shows doctors removing an 8cm lighter from a man's stomach after he swallowed it
The video shows a doctor dragging the 8cm yellow lighter up the unidentified man's oesophagus with a clamp. He was admitted to Yangzhou hospital, in the Jiangsu province in the east of China. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Lithium battery lodged in the oesophagus: a report of three paediatric cases - Barabino AV, Gandullia P, Vignola S, Arrigo S, Zannini L, Di Pietro P.
BACKGROUND: Over the last years the ingestion of disk batteries has become frequent in children with serious consequences. The severity of injuries is related to the growing use of new lithium batteries that may cause catastrophic damages when lodged in th... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - September 2, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
Women who consume alcohol everyday raise their breast cancer risk
Women who drink every day were most likely to develop breast cancer followed by tumours of the liver, bowel, throat, mouth, oesophagus and larynx, according to a study by the British Medical Journal. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
