The National Quality Forum has endorsed two American College of Surgeons outcomes-based measures for surgical site infections and urinary tract infections.
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Minimally invasive lumbar decompression, or MILD, is a percutaneous procedure developed by Vertos Medical to treat symptomatic spinal stenosis. The purpose of the MILD procedure is to remove excess ligamentum flavum and decompress the spinal cord.
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Ruth D. Williams, MD, president of the Wheaton (Ill.) Eye Clinic, began her term at the 115th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, according to an AAO news release.
The online medical supply market is expected to grow 10.3 percent in the period 2011-2012 and increase to a growth rate of 11 percent through 2017, according to an IBISWorld industry report.
MEDICREA, a medical company developing surgical technologies for the treatment of spinal pathologies, received FDA approval for its PASS MIS system, according to a news release.
The FDA has raised questions about the efficacy of NeurogesX's prescription-strength capsaicin patch Qutenza in relieving pain related to nerve damage commonly associated with HIV, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
A modified interlaminar lumbar epidural steroid injection approach, known as the parasagittal approach, is more effective at reducing unilateral lumbosacral radicular back pain and is safer than the traditional approach, according to a Medscape Medical News report.
A team of scientists, led by the University of Liverpool, has developed a diagnostic test for esophageal cancer using an extremely intense source of infrared light to image tissue taken from patients with Barrett's Esophagus, according to a Science and…
Harvard gastroenterologist Braden Kuo, MD, and artist Stefani Bardin collaborated on a project that used camera pills to look at differences in how the body digests a processed meal and a natural meal, according to a Wired report.