Surgery

...19 standard leucotomies. Cingulotomy, where part of the anterior cingulate gyrus is destroyed, was pioneered in Great Britain in 1948 by Hugh Cairns, first Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford. Similar operations...

In this article: Psychosurgery, United Kingdom, Walter Freeman, Lobotomy, Depression, and Dundee

Consequently, microRNA could be used as disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets," said lead researcher Freddie C. Hamdy, M.D., professor of surgery and professor of urology and head of the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of...

In this article: Carcinoma, Bladder cancer, Cancer Research, Medical advice, University of Sheffield, University of Oxford, and Cancer

...education at Oxford University and John Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Maloney was the first surgeon in western North America to perform LASIK surgery as part of the original FDA clinical trials. He is clinical professor of ophthalmology at UCLA and...

In this article: Kristin Cavallari, Lasik, IntraLase, Robert Maloney, Advanced Medical Optics, FDA, Archives of Ophthalmology, and Dog

...placebo. "Single dose oral etoricoxib produces high levels of good quality pain relief after surgery," says lead researcher Andrew Moore, of the Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics at the University of Oxford. Moore adds...

In this article: Chronic pain, University of Oxford, Nsaids, Ibuprofen, and England

...II colon cancer. "This test empowers doctors and their patients to make more informed decisions about chemotherapy after surgery," says researcher David Kerr, MD, professor of cancer medicine at the University of Oxford. If its name sounds...

In this article: Cancer, University of Oxford, Breast cancer, American Society of Clinical Oncology, Estrogen, and University of Chicago

...reviews of existing literature. A framework (IDEAL) is recommended by the experts. Its purpose is to guide surgeons in evaluating new innovations in surgery. It is detailed in the third paper of the series and is the work of Peter McCulloch,...

In this article: University of Oxford, Balliol College, The Lancet, McGill University, Jonathan Meakins, Oxford, Montreal, and American College

...city of disadvantage". Earlier this year a report from Oxford University found that nearly half of all neighbourhoods had lost key amenities such as surgeries, post offices, shops and schools in the past four years. The Government insisted...

In this article: Labour, Tony Blair, Cornwall, England, Oxford University, Tories, and Eric Pickles

...communities in terminal decline? Nearly half of all neighbourhoods have lost key amenities such as surgeries, post offices, shops and schools in the past four years, figures from Oxford University show. Geographical deprivation is likely...

In this article: Labour, England, Gordon Brown, and Britain

...who led the trial explains: ''Surgery to remove the cancerous tissue is currently the only chance of cure from pancreatic cancer but less than 20 percent of the tumours are suitable to be operated on. After treatment with Nelfinavir in...

In this article: Pancreatic cancer, HIV, Cancer, Nelfinavir, University of Oxford, and Chronic myelogenous leukemia