Ear Surgery News

By JANICE B. PIETERSE Rochester Business Journal October 16, 2007 Rochester pediatricians have discovered a strain of a “superbug” resistant to all approved drugs to fight ear infections in children.

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Northstar Healthcare Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of an option to acquire a 60% interest in The Palladium for Surgery - Dallas, a growing ambulatory surgical centre in Dallas, Texas.

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Researchers have discovered a strain of bacteria resistant to all approved drugs used to fight ear infections in children, according to an article to be published tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). A pair of pediatricians discovered the strain because it is their standard practice to perform an uncommon procedure called tympanocentesis (ear tap) on children when …

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Nearly 8 million ears are cleaned of ear wax build-up in doctors’ offices each year in the United States*. While physician visits are necessary to remove serious blockages, a new, easy-to-use ear wax cleansing product — Murine Earigate Ear Cleansing System from Prestige Brands, Inc. — provides a safe way to help prevent problematic wax build-up.

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Scheduling one’s plastic surgery is a real cakewalk these days. It all boils down to economics, by and large. However, the victims of meatball surgery are confident that a good plastic surgeon is hard to find no matter how much money one may be willing to spend on the improvement of one’s looks.

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Doctors in Rochester, N.Y., have found a bacterial strain that causes ear infections and resists FDA-approved antibiotics for kids.

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A new superbug that causes acute ear infections in children has emerged that is immune to all antibiotics currently approved for children.

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A strain of the bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae, which can cause ear infections in children, has been detected that is resistant to all FDA-approved antibiotics for treatment of ear infections and is not covered by the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine, according to a study in the October 17 issue of JAMA.

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy was released from Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday, a day after undergoing successful surgery to remove partial blockage from a neck artery, according to Stephanie Cutter, a Kennedy spokeswoman. “After a few days of rest at home in Hyannis Port, the senator will return to the Senate,” Cutter said in a statement. The blockage in Kennedy’s carotid …

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It took him years but eventually this Australian found a surgeon willing to attach an ear to his arm.

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