Hospitals Offering Clinical Trials Could Be Better

American and Canadian researchers have found that hospitals that practice drug and device studies could be better at dealing with life-threatening situations and they have lower patient death rates than hospitals that don’t do clinical trials. There was another study done that found that ovarian cancer patients at these types of hospitals have a 28 percent lower mortality rate.

Get a List of Hospitals that Offer Clinical Trials at: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov

Vegas Clinic Sickens Thousands of Hospitals

Almost 40,000 people learned this week that a visit to their local doctor may have made them sick. A Las Vegas clinic has been found to reuse syringes and vials of medication for almost four years. This situation may have led to the outbreak of hepatitis C and exposure to HIV. This discovery has led to the biggest public notification operation in U.S. history. It has caused demands for investigation and has caused lawyers to seek out patients at risk for infections. The surgical center and five affiliated clinics have had to be closed.

Thousands of patients are being advised to be tested for viruses. Six acute cases of hepatitis C have been confirmed

Scientists Developing Surgical Robot for Surgeries

There are scientists in London that are developing a surgical robot that could help surgeons do complex surgical procedures without having to cut into the patient’s skin. A team at the Imperial College has been given $4.5 million to build and test a surgical robot that is called the “i-Snake”.

The robot is made up of a long tube that has special motors, sensors, and imaging tools inside of it. It would be inserted through the patient’s mouth or other orifice and would eliminate the need for a keyhole surgery, where several cuts would be made. The i-Snake would cause less invasive treatments, surgeries would be faster, and recovery times would be quicker.


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