Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience is one of first medical centers in the U.S. to develop and begin using translational, interactive 3-D technology to map the human brain and help guide neurological surgeons during epilepsy surgery and procedures to remove malignant brain tumors.
An implanted stimulator being studied at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital may be able to predict and prevent seizures before they start in people with uncontrolled epilepsy.
A Cochrane Systematic Review that set out to assess the effectiveness and tolerability of subdermal implantable contraceptives compared to other reversible methods of contraception found that they were all good at preventing pregnancy.
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a long-sought “master switch” in mice for the production of brown fat, a type of adipose tissue that generates heat and counters obesity caused by overeating.
Tummy fat or fat from the bottom could be used to enlarge breasts in a short span of time like an hour during lunch break, revealed by researchers in a UK study.
Preimplantation genetic screening did not increase but instead significantly reduced the rates of ongoing pregnancies and live births after IVF in women of advanced maternal age.
The use of life-saving implantable cardioverter defibrillators in Canada is rising, but it is still significantly less than that in the United States.
The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk), the not-for-profit organisation established for the advancement of education and practice of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery for public benefit, denounced a website offering free breast augmentations as ?degrading? and warned British women that the process was entirely inappropriate for what should be a life-changing decision.
More than three decades ago, scientists pursued the then-radical idea of implanting tiny electronic hearing devices in the inner ear to help profoundly deaf people. An even bolder alternative that promised superior results ? implanting a device directly in the auditory nerve ? was set aside as too difficult, given the technology of the day.
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have, for the first time, used a ?bionic? ear to restore hearing in a patient with von Hippel-Lindau disease.