UroToday.com- Shimada, et al in the December 2007 of The International Journal of Urology evaluated the surgical treatment for ureterocele with special reference to bladder reconstruction. They reviewed the medical records of 91 children who were diagnosed with a ureterocele and treated. The 91 patients spanned over 14 years.
UroToday.com - The tissue ablative techniques for renal tumor management continue to be in their investigational phase. This group highlights the technical limitations associated with cryotherapy of anteriorly located, endophytic tumors. These tumors are often not amenable to percutaneous CT guided cryotherapy and therefore are approached laparoscopically.
UroToday.com - Improving bladder capacity and compliance by surgical methods continues to be challenging specially for children and young adults with long life expectancy. Although segments of the digestive tract from stomach to sigmoid colon present satisfactory results in terms of obtaining a compliant reservoir the long-term complications rates are significantly high.
No more vexing problem in education exists today than the achievement gap in this country. The difference between the extremes has rightfully attracted national attention, and one of the most popular policy proposals is to reduce class size - not surprising, since benchmarks are easily measured.
Sedentary people who regularly complain of fatigue can increase their energy levels by 20 percent and decrease their fatigue by 65 percent by engaging in regular, low intensity exercise, according to a new University of Georgia study.
If you are a loud snorer there is a good chance your risk of stroke and heart disease is higher compared to people who do not snore, say Hungarian scientists after a new study on 12,643 participants. You can read about this in the journal Sleep.The authors explain that everybody snores to some extent at some period in their lives.
A new compound that blocks an early step in cell death could lead to a novel class of drugs for treating heart attacks and stroke.When cells are deprived of oxygen — during a heart attack, for example — they start to die through a tidy process called apoptosis or programmed cell death.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego, working with collaborators at the University of Helsinki in Finland and two other European institutions, have elucidated the mechanism of a plant gene that controls the amount of atmospheric ozone entering a plant’s leaves.
Bovine respiratory disease complex has multiple causes. It’s sometimes hard to classify and predict. It also costs the beef industry more than any other disease — an estimated $690 million in 2006, according to one report.That’s why a team of Kansas State University researchers is stepping in. Using a three-year, $375,000 grant from the U.S.
The research groups of the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Helsinki and the University of California in San Diego have discovered a gene that is centrally involved in the regulation of carbon dioxide uptake for photosynthesis and water evaporation in plants. The discovery can aid the development of drought-tolerant crops.