Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), the lower part of your digestive system. Also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum and a...
Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a human carcinogen after inhalation exposure. Humans also ingest Cr(VI) from contaminated drinking water and soil; however, limited data exist on the oral toxicity a...
May 19, 2007 Video capsule instead of breakfast Will frequent video endoscopic evaluation help to detect more serious diseases in the digestive tract? Can capsule endoscopy technology be refined to...
May 15, 2007
Drug coated stent program terminated Are stents really effective in preventing heart arteries from occlusion? Is the hype about metal mesh tubes in arteries just another temporary def...
May 14, 2007 Sutureless vascular grafting How can end-to-end anastomosis be done in a minimally invasive way? What are the requirements in tensile strength, and durability, of the anastomosis for b...
May 12, 2007
All in vein How does the minimally invasive treatment of varicose veins evolve? Is sclerotherapy a promising therapeutic alternative? Will the trend to treatment at ambulatory outpati...
May 7, 2007
No Fix for Stent-grafts Are stents and stent-grafts at an evolutionary dead-end? Do extended suprarenal stents with more flexibility lead to more acute fixation? Will a shorter sealing...
May 4, 2007
Medicare folds stents One quarter of the 700,000 stroke cases reported annually in the United States are believed to be related to the clogging of the carotid artery with cholesterol d...
May 3, 2007
Patents going open source
th How will the April 30 ruling of the High Court affect the issuance of new patents? Is the open-source world getting bigger? What effect does it have on med...
April 30, 2007 No Scar Not Far If in April 2007 a patient needs to decide on how to treat GERD, what will be the treatment of choice? Will the patient go on the internet and look up state-of-the-ar...
April 13, 2007
No Scar Surgery on natural pathways: going endo inside the lumen of vessels or hollow organs like the esophagus. Or through blood vessels, the size of a garden hose, descending in f...