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Spacer insertion may offer less invasive option for lumbar problems
11-28-2006 · EurekAlert!Implanting a small spacer between lumbar vertebrae during a procedure called interspinous process decompression may be an effective and minimally invasive way to treat spinal stenosis, according to a new report.
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- New York Methodist Hospital to study airway bypass treatment for emphysema
02-04-2008 · EurekAlert!
New York Methodist Hospital today announced the start of the EASE Trial, an international, multi-center clinical trial to explore an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering with advanced widespread emphysema. The study focuses on a procedure called airway bypass that involves creating pathways in the lung for trapped air to escape and in turn, relieve emphysema symptoms including shortness of breath.
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- Researchers begin randomized double-blind trial of airway bypass treatment for emphysema
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Broncus Technologies Inc., today announced the start of its EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial to explore an investigational procedure that may offer a new, minimally-invasive treatment option for millions of emphysema sufferers. The study focuses on a procedure called airway bypass that uses drug-eluting stents to reinforce new pathways in the lung for trapped air to escape. This in turn, may relieve severe emphysema symptoms such as shortness of breath.
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- Researchers at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System to study airway bypass treatment for emphysema
12-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Sarasota Memorial Health Care System today announced the start of the EASE trial, an international, multi-center clinical trial to explore an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering with advanced widespread emphysema. The study focuses on a procedure called airway bypass that involves creating pathways in the lung for trapped air to escape and in turn, relieve emphysema symptoms including shortness of breath.
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- Researchers at Pulmonary Associates to study airway bypass procedure for severe emphysema
02-11-2008 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Pulmonary Associates today announced the start of the EASE Trial, a multicenter clinical trial to explore Airway Bypass, an investigational treatment that may offer a new, minimally invasive option for those suffering with advanced widespread emphysema.
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- Researchers at Penn study new airway bypass treatment to help emphysema sufferers breathe easier
04-04-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are now studying an investigational treatment that may offer a significant new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering from advanced widespread emphysema.
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- Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to study airway bypass treatment for emphysema
06-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center announced today the start of the EASE (Exhale Airway Stents for Emphysema) Trial, an international, multi-center clinical trial to explore an investigational treatment that may offer a new, minimally-invasive option for those suffering with advanced widespread emphysema.
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- Exclusion of common bile duct stones prior to gallstone operations
10-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
In the era of laparoscopic surgery, intra-operative X-ray investigation of bile ducts to identify coexisting common bile duct stones has been replaced by new techniques, which, unfortunately, are either too expensive and not available to all patients, or invasive and may result in severe complications. A study recently reported in the Nov. 21 issue of the World Journal of Gastroenterology may offer a simple and available measure to solve this problem worldwide.
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- RAND researchers offer options to improve immigrant health care quality, access
09-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Expanding opportunities for immigrants to obtain legal residency and citizenship may be the best option to offer them better access to health care, according to an article published today by the RAND Corp. in the journal Health Affairs.The article from RAND Health, "Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability," appears in a special issue of Health Affairs that looks at a how to improve health care for vulnerable populations.
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- Center-based care yields more behavior problems; in other types of care, problems short-lived
03-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
New data from a federally-funded longitudinal study show that that children who spent more time in center-based childcare exhibited more problem behavior through sixth grade. Quality of parenting was found to be a stronger and more consistent predictor of social functioning and achievement than early childcare experiences. Higher quality early childcare was also associated with better vocabularies through fifth grade. The study highlights some of the potential enduring effects of childcare and the implications.
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- Depression may play a bigger role in readjustment than previously thought in troubled vets
08-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Depression may be an unrecognized readjustment problem for recently returning veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a study released today at the American Psychological Association 115th Annual Convention. Researchers working with veterans referred for psychiatric evaluation from a primary care service found that major or minor depression was associated with domestic abuse and other family problems.
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