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Canadians Watch U.S. Reform Effort Closely
American health care reform has become a "hot topic north of the border," the Washington Times reports. "If Mr. Obama succeeds, the U.S. could draw even more Canadian doctors and nurses to the U.S., exacerbating a shortage of medical professionals, said Dr. Brian Day, a Canadian health care critic and former head of the Canadian Medical Association. If Mr. Obama fails, perhaps Canada could open its system to "medical tourism" from the U.S., Dr. Day said." Under the Canadian system, everyone is insured and has "access to basic health care without ever seeing a doctor or hospital bill." But 70% of Canadians also have "some form of supplemental health insurance," in part because of long wait times for tests and treatments under the government plan. For Canadian citizens who become ill in the U.S., it is often cheaper to "ride on a private Lear jet back to Canada" than to be treated in a U.S. hospital.
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New Dentists Just Part Of The Solution To Problems, Says BDA
The British Dental Association (BDA) has given a broad welcome to today"s announcement of the award of a tender for 38 new dentists in Northern Ireland as part of the solution to the problems some patients face accessing care. But the BDA has also warned that this is not the whole solution to the problems facing Health Service dentistry. Also required, says the BDA, are full support for the more than 800 dentists already working in Northern Ireland and a new contract that allows dentists to provide the kind of modern, preventive care they are trained to do.
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Exercise Programs Focusing On Muscle Density Could Reduce Disability And Hospitalization Of The Elderly
Older adults who have less strength, poor physical function and low muscle density are at higher risk of being hospitalized compared to adults with more strength and better function. That"s the finding of a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society.
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The Very First All Spanish "Surgery Robot" Is Now Operating In Malaga

The routine use of this first commercial robot assistant culminates the process of investigation, development, technology transfer and the marketing of this robot. Four years ago the Spanish company SENER became interested in the ongoing research by the Medical Robotics Group of the University of Malaga. They were developing a robot-assistant prototype designed especially for minimally invasive surgery. This robot was to be voice controlled and able to move the endoscope with the total precision required in these types of procedures. It was in 2004 that this prototype was first put to the test in surgical procedures performed on human patients, and its benefits were quickly verified: freeing the surgeon of the habitual fatigue caused by the deep concentration need in such procedures, and consequently reducing the amount of time of the operation. It is worthy mentioning that this laparoscopic robot is the very first one to have been exclusively developed by Spanish scientists. Once the company SENER showed their interest it didn"t take long before the robot was patented, and its novel concept was endorsed by the Spanish Office of Patents & Trademarks and the European Patent Office; there does not exist another patent similar to this system that has the adroitness to control the robot"s movements. Since UMA"s robot has been patented in Spain, patent rights have been extended to the EU, The United States and Japan, granting those licence rights exclusively to SENER. This company has industrialized the prototype that has been designed and developed by the Group of Medical Robotics of the UMA, and in turn have produced it into a commercial product. This has been a complex task, in which the researchers have also been involved by giving the company that personal in-depth knowledge that can not be acquired by the patent alone. This has all resulted in a very satisfactory outcome where all money that is invested in research is given back to society, in the form of this entirely designed and manufactured Spanish, first series, product being used in the Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria in Malaga. Mç¡laga Universidad


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