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Patients wait in pain as a surgeon fights to get paid — all in a battle over health-care dollars
Patients with severe scoliosis say they waited years for surgery, only to be told it wouldn't be happening, all with the same Toronto surgeon. Behind the scenes, a battle has been playing out between their doctor and the province over delayed payments and rising pressure to tackle backlogs of other, more common procedures.
Source: CBC | Health - June 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
As ‘Back to the Future’ Musical Opens, This DeLorean Still Hums (Usually)
Norman Levy , a retired eye surgeon, and his wife, Roslyn, a Realtor, living in Gainesville, Fla., on their 1982 DeLorean DMC-12, as told to A.J. Baime.#normanlevy #gainesville #fla #deloreandmc12 #ajbaime
Source: Reuters: Health - June 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Moral Crisis of America ’s Doctors
In July 2018, Dean published an essay with Simon G. Talbot, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, that argued that many physicians were suffering from a condition known as moral injury. Military psychiatrists use the term to describe an emotional wound sustained when, in the course of fulfilling…#simongtalbot #talbot #hippocratic #stat #carlisle #nationalnursesunited #monamasood #clinicians #amazon #minglin
Source: Reuters: Health - June 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Surgeon Volume Impacts Outcomes After Shoulder Replacement
FRIDAY, June 23, 2023 -- The risk for adverse patient outcomes is lower for surgeons who average more than 10.4 shoulder replacements yearly, according to a study published online June 21 in The BMJ.
Epaminondas Markos Valsamis, M.B., B.Chir., from...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 23, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Precision Neuroscience, founded by a Neuralink co-founder, says it has conducted its first in-human clinical study to map brain signals using a neural implant
It happened so fast that Craig Mermel missed it. He was standing in a busy operating room in West Virginia, waiting for a surgeon to place Precision Neuroscience's neural implant system onto a conscious patient's brain for the first time. Mermel, the president and chief product officer at…#craigmermel #westvirginia #precision #neuralink #elonmusk #synchron #blackrockneurotech #mermel #als #fda
Source: Reuters: Health - June 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Formal Dispute Resolution and Administrative Hearings of Final Administrative Orders Under Section 505G of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - June 22, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Bladder cancer: What you should know about diagnosis, treatment and recurrence
Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancer types in the U.S., according to the National Cancer Institute. It's also one of the most likely types of cancer to recur. Experts are developing ways to reduce bladder cancer recurrence, and, with treatments and follow-up care tailored to each person ’s cancer, outcomes are improving. Mark Tyson, II, M.D., a Mayo Clinic urologic surgeon, explains: Blood in the urine may be the first sign of bladder cancer. The first symptom of…
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - June 22, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
How to deep freeze an entire organ —and bring it back to life
MINNEAPOLIS—
The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one.
Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray. In the past 6 hours, it had been plucked from the abdomen of a white lab rat, pumped full of a black fluid, stuck in a freezer cooled to –150°C, and zapped by a powerful magnet.
Now, in a cramped, windowless room on the 11th floor of the University of Minnesota’s (UMN’s) Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, Rao lifted the kidney from a small plastic box and gently laid it ins...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Transplant surgeon sentenced to prison for failed stem cell treatments
Surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who was once hailed as a pioneer of stem cell medicine, was
found guilty of gross assault
against three of his patients today and sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison by an appeals court in Stockholm. The ruling comes a year after a Swedish district court found Macchiarini
guilty of bodily harm in two of the cases and gave him a suspended sentence
. After both the prosecution and Macchiarini appealed that ruling, the Svea Court of Appeal heard the case in April and May. The prosecution asked for a 5-year sentence while Macchiarini’s lawyer urged the appeals court to acquit hi...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Swedish appeals court ups surgeon's sentence for 'harm' during experimental windpipe transplants
A Swedish appeals court has upped a prison sentence for an Italian surgeon for causing bodily harm during experimental stem cell windpipe transplants on three patients who eventually died
Source: ABC News: Health - June 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
I Never Asked Why the Bodies Kept Coming
(MedPage Today) -- Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, first opened as a 14-bed public hospital in 1892, the same year the first immigrants passed through Ellis Island. Grady Hospital is also where I trained to become a trauma surgeon...
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 19, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Tweeters are pointing out that a neurosurgery role in London pays about the same as an Aldi store manager
The surgeon position in London pays as little as $43,000. Getty Images Tweeters pointed out an apparently low salary range for a surgeon in London. An NHS Trust is advertising for a neuro-oncology fellow paying as little as £33,790 (about $43,000). One tweeter pointed out that an Aldi manager can…#gettyimagestweeters #annhstrust #aldi #nhs #bartshealthtrust #twitter #skynews #bma
Source: Reuters: Health - June 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dr. Mandy Cohen Selected As New CDC Head
NEW YORK — Dr. Mandy Cohen, a former North Carolina official, will be the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the White House announced Friday.
Unlike the last two people to serve as head of the nation’s top federal public health agency, Cohen has prior experience running a government agency: She was secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services from 2017 until last year. Before that, she held health-related jobs at two federal agencies.
“Dr. Cohen is one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Public Health wire Source Type: news
Pope Francis leaves Rome hospital 9 days after operation; surgeon says 'he's better than before'
Pope Francis has been discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring
Source: ABC News: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Pope Francis leaves Rome hospital 9 days after surgery
Pope Francis on Friday was discharged from the Rome hospital where he had abdominal surgery nine days earlier to repair a hernia and remove painful scarring, with his surgeon saying the pontiff is now “better than before” the hospitalization. Francis, 86, left through Gemelli Polyclinic’s main…#rome #hernia #gemellipolyclinics #vatican #fiat #sergioalfieri #gemelli
Source: Reuters: Health - June 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
