Randy Clark, MD from Coral Desert Orthopedics in St. George Utah narrates a video demonstration of calcium removal from a rotator cuff. He is an orthopedic surgeon who has sports medicine/arthroscopic fellowship training. Dr. Clark has a particular interest in minimally invasive shoulder, hip, knee, foot and ankle tendon and ligament reconstruction.

Dr. Samin Sharma, a leading interventional cardiologist at The Mount Sinai Hospital, is the first in the world to use the newly U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved device for the treatment of severely calcified coronary arteries before the placement of a cardiac stent to open a blocked artery. This video shows Dr. Sharma performing the first procedure in the world using the new technology inside the Cardiac Cath Lab at Mount Sinai Heart. The new device is called the Diamondback 360® Coronary Orbital Atherectomy System. It’s spinning electrically powered 1.25 mm diamond-coated crown is located on a thin cardiac catheterization guide wire and works within seconds to reduce the amount of hard calcium buildup in a coronary artery. The small calcium particles sanded from the artery’s wall are then naturally discarded from the heart and the body. The atherectomy system made by Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. was just FDA approved on Oct. 21. It is the first new coronary atherectomy system in more than two decades.
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A superbug gets its power from the ability to mutate. Developing resistance to common antibiotics. A long-standing concern for hospitals and nursing homes, drug resistant MRSA can cause pneumonia and bloodstream infections.

“Nowadays there’s a lot of vigilance about hospital-acquired infection. So hospitals are paying a lot of attention in making sure that people who come to our hospital to get better, we don’t give them an infection,” says Dr. Pranav Shah, an infectious disease specialist with Lee Memorial Health System.

Starting in the late 80s, MRSA hit the community at-large. Causing skin infections, some of them life-threatening. Spread through skin-to-skin contact, athletes and people living in close quarters were most at risk.

“The first outbreak of MRSA was in a NFL football team where they got MRSA because they were sharing in the locker room. And then it came through to the regular population as well,” says Dr. Shah.

From hospitals to homes, MRSA is still adapting. Studies find it now taking up residence in private homes. The CDC estimates 2 in every 100 people are colonized with MRSA, without sickness. As smart as this bug is-m preventing its spread is relatively simple.

“The best thing you can do is hand washing. Hand washing, hand washing, hand washing. That’s all, that’s the best way of preventing you from getting MRSA infection,” says Dr. Shah.

Cleanliness, both careful cleaning and covering open cuts, should keep a damaging bug at arm’s length.

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Lee Memorial Health System in Fort Myers, FL is the largest network of medical care facilities in Southwest Florida and is highly respected for its expertise, innovation and quality of care. For nearly a century, we’ve been providing our community with everything from primary care treatment to highly specialized care services and robotic assisted surgeries.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders on the president’s push to kill Obamacare — and why he does not support incremental improvements to the law.
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Synergy Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: SGYP) beat the odds by successfully winning FDA approval of Trulance last year, but it may not matter. Recently, management warned its struggling to renegotiate its debt and that increases the risk of its bankruptcy.

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