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Best practices in resuscitation – interim updates for 5-Year ILCOR recommendations

Over the past decade, resuscitation has become one of the fastest growing areas in emergency medical care. The drivers for growth include portable, remote monitoring equipment as well as real time video-consultation. The focus of attention is on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care (ECC), and includes all responses to sudden life-threatening events impacting […]

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Should TAVI be extended to lower risk patients?

The relatively new procedure for aortic valve replacement, namely Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), first performed in 2002, is considered to be an appropriate approach when conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for severe aortic stenosis is contraindicated because patients have left ventricular dysfunction or are very elderly with comorbidities. During the procedure a catheter […]

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Mortara’s New Milwaukee Manufacturing Facility

Based in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA), Mortara Instrument, Inc. recently opened its new manufacturing and distribution facility. The 64,000-square-foot, air conditioned, high tech facility consolidate and expand Mortara’s manufacturing and distribution operations which were previously split between the company’s headquarters building and its warehousing operation on Sleske Drive in Milwaukee. ‘I am proud of our continued […]

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Microbotics – miniature machines and molecular motors open new vistas for medicine

Microbotics (or micro-robotics) is a term that describes the emerging field of intelligent, miniaturized robotics. Biomedical microbotics offers a glimpse of a future where tiny, untethered devices (smaller than 1 mm in size) are inserted into patients via natural orifices or through extremely small incisions. Thereafter, they navigate autonomously through the bloodstream or inside fluids […]

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Ten years on: the impact of human papilloma virus vaccine

Globally HPV is still the most frequent sexually transmitted virus. Certain genotypes cause virtually all cases of cervical cancer, a disease which kills over a quarter of a million women per annum, as well as causing morbidity and mortality from anogenital and oropharyngeal disease in both genders. However back in October 2005 it was reported […]

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Breast cancer screening with tomosynthesis (3D mammography) with acquired or synthetic 2D mammography compared with 2D mammography alone (STORM-2): a population-based prospective study

Bernardi D. et al. The Lancet Oncology. 2016 Aug;17(8):1105-1113 Background Breast tomosynthesis (pseudo-3D mammography) improves breast cancer detection when added to 2D mammography. In this study, we examined whether integrating 3D mammography with either standard 2D mammography acquisitions or with synthetic 2D images (reconstructed from 3D mammography) would detect more cases of breast cancer than […]