Posted by: admin on: April 11, 2012
As one of the country’s leading medical centers diagnosing and treating fetal anomalies, Texas Children’s Fetal Center is proud to announce the birth of Baby Charlotte, the team’s first patient to undergo in-utero surgery for the treatment of spina bifida. Baby Charlotte’s mother went into labor nearly 11 weeks after fetal closure was performed, and […]
Posted by: admin on: April 11, 2012
Two new clinical guidelines address taking cervical length measurements to help determine risk for preterm birth, as well as using progesterone and other treatments for women found to be at increased risk. -Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: April 10, 2012
Contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival. -Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: April 10, 2012
Men who have two drinks a day after surviving a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease than non-drinkers, Harvard researchers said, adding to evidence that moderate alcohol use may be healthy. -Team@CMHF
Posted by: admin on: April 10, 2012
New research from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute and the Rambam Medical Center may lead to the development of new methods for controlling the growth of cancer, and perhaps lead to treatments that will transform cancer from a lethal disease to a chronic, manageable one, similar to AIDS. […]