Breast Implants - Augmentation

Breast implants are medical devices that are used to augment breast size or to reconstruct the breast following mastectomy or to correct a congenital abnormality. Breast implants consist of a silico...

Trigeminal Neuralgia

Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) is an extremely severe facial pain that tends to come and go unpredictably in sudden shock-like attacks. The pain is often described as stabbing, shooting, excruciating, bu...

Health Tip: Kids Need to Stop Sucking Their Thumbs

-- Thumb-sucking is a natural reflex that allows many children to feel less anxious and more secure. But the habit can wreak havoc with a child's oral health if it goes on too long, the American Denta...

Thumb Friendly Adds Key Executive to Management Team

ATLANTA, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Thumb Friendly, a fast growing, privately held mobile marketing provider, today announced the hiring of Chris Lusk.  Mr. Lusk will serve as Regional V...

UK regulator criticized over implant scandal

Healthcare regulators in the U.K. were criticized in a recent government review of the Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) breast implant scandal.

Expensive hylan G-F 20 'no better than steroids' for thumb pain relief

People with thumb arthritis are just as likely to benefit from corticosteroids as they are from a more expensive treatment called hylan G-F 20, research suggests.Hylan G-F 20 (brand name Synvisc-One)...

New blood test finds allergies before implant surgery

(MediaSource) Imagine getting a hip or knee implant -- only to find out you are allergic to it after the surgery. By 2030, there will be 11,000 joint implant surgeries every day; a thousand patients a...

Implant not recommended in UK, but to be launched in European market

The fluocinolone acetonide intravitreal implant (Iluvien, Alimera) has not met the UK?s cost-effectiveness thresholds for treating DME. Alimera has, however, signed an agreement with Quintiles for...

Implant Sciences: What The Financials Don't Say

ByDaniel Reese:Implant Sciences Corp. (IMSC.PK) is a developer and manufacturer of sophisticated sensors for use in domestic and international security markets. Implant Sciences has traded as high as...

Women have higher risk of hip implant failure

Women appear to have a higher risk of implant failure than men following total hip replacement after considering patient-, surgery-, surgeon-, volume- and implant-specific risk factors, according to a...

Implant Arthroplasty of the Carpometacarpal Joint of the Thumb.

Resection arthroplasty with or without ligament reconstruction for thumb trapeziometacarpal arthritis can be complicated by thumb shortening and pinch-strength weakness. Implant arthroplasties have be...

Thumb motor performance varies with thumb and wrist posture during single-handed mobile phone use.

Design features of mobile computing technology such as device size and key location may affect thumb motor performance during single-handed use. Since single-handed use requires the thumb posture to v...

Review of the Molecular Development of the Thumb: Digit Primera.

BACKGROUND: The thumb, or digit 1, is not a typical digit. In addition to its unusual mobility and function, its formation is also unusual. It is the last digit to form and the most commonly targeted...

Different effects in tactile attention between the thumb and its metacarpus and the palm.

The aim of this study is to establish whether the thumb is represented independently of the palm. An exogenous spatial cueing paradigm was used, where participants had to detect a tactile stimulus tha...

Treatment of common congenital hand conditions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:: After reading this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Recognize the clinical features associated with five common congenital hand conditions. 2. Describe the indicati...