Five Hundred Surgical Suggestions

Harmonic scalpel hemorrhoidectomy: five hundred consecutive cases.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of postoperative complications after Harmonic Scalpels hemorrhoidectomy and to identify any predisposing factors leading to postoperative complications. METHODS Five hundred consecutive cases of Harmonic Scalpel hemorrhoidectomy were studied in a prospective manner. Postoperative complications were recorded, and any predisposing fact...

Five hundred years of brain images.

M aking accurate visual representations of the structure of the human brain has been one of the most challenging tasks of anatomical research for the past 500 years. Already, the illustrations of the brain in the De Humani Corporis Fabrica, by Andreas Vesalius, and Thomas Willis’ Cerebri Anatome display an often astonishing quality (Figures 1, 2, and 3). In the 19th and early 20th centuries, th...

Five suggestions for substantial NIH reforms

The National Institutes of Health needs to make radical changes to ensure that biomedical research continues to thrive in the United States.

Five Hundred Cases of Myalgia in the British Army.

Five-hundred life-saving interventions and their cost-effectiveness.

We gathered information on the cost-effectiveness of life-saving interventions in the United States from publicly available economic analyses. "Life-saving interventions" were defined as any behavioral and/or technological strategy that reduces the probability of premature death among a specified target population. We defined cost-effectiveness as the net resource costs of an intervention per y...