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WORLD'S First Robotic Assisted Kidney Transplant Performed At Saint Barnabas Medical Center
Transplant surgeon, Stuart R. Geffner, M.D., Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Surgery, Saint Barnabas Health Care System Renal and Pancreas Transplant Division, is the first in the world to use the Intuitive Surgical"s da Vinci(TM) Surgical System to successfully implant a kidney into a living recipient. This procedure revolutionizes kidney transplant surgery, taking an open procedure to an advanced form of laparoscopic surgery.
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Israeli Scientists Show Bacteria Can Plan Ahead
Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared today in Nature, Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, doctoral student Amir Mitchell and research associate Dr. Orna Dahan of the Institute"s Molecular Genetics Department, together with Prof. Martin Kupiec and Gal Romano of Tel Aviv University, examined microorganisms living in environments that change in predictable ways. Their findings show that these microorganisms" genetic networks are hard-wired to "foresee" what comes next in the sequence of events and begin responding to the new state of affairs before its onset.
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Steroid Abuse Leads To Alarming Rise In Hair Loss Victims
Men are being warned that steroids can lead to premature baldness after a leading hair clinic reported an alarming rise in the number of patients affected by the designer drugs.
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International Health Experts To Discuss Environmental Effects On Children's Health

Beginning Monday, international health experts will gather through Wednesday in Busan, South Korea, to discuss the effects of the environment on children"s health for the Third WHO International Conference on Children"s Health and the Environment, the Korea Times reports. More than 600 child health experts and government officials representing 60 countries will discuss such topics as: "indoor and outdoor air pollution; water purity; sanitation and hygiene; chemical hazards; disease vectors; and global environmental change," the newspaper writes. "Children are most often the first to suffer the consequences of environmental emergencies and natural disasters,"" Park Mi-ja, a environment ministry official, said. "According to the Ministry of Environment, more than three million children under five years old, mostly in developing or under developed countries die of diseases linked to adverse environmental conditions," the Korea Times writes (Ji-sook, 6/7). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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