2010 Overview in Medical System (IV)

• Updated Pneumococcical Vaccine Guidelines
• National Lung Screening Trial  Halted
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) introduces first draft
• Oil Spill In the Gulf 
• First Synthetic Cell 
• New Superbug :NDM-1 
• Genetic Link to ADHD

Updated Pneumococcical Vaccine Guidelines

        The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September updated guidelines for use of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in adults. Changes include the recommendation that all persons aged 19 to 64 years with chronic or immunosuppressive medical conditions, including asthma, should receive the vaccine.

Whiz-kid invents Surgical Technique Used in Hysterectomies

• 14 Year Old Tony Hansberry makes Medical History

nJacksonville, Fla -Tony Hansberry II is just 14 years old, but the precocious student has the medical profession buzzing. Hansberry, who attends Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School in Jacksonville, Florida, the first magnet school for medicine in the country, has discovered a new way to suture patients undergoing hysterectomies. 

 Challenged to improve a procedure called the endo stitch used in hysterectomies that could not be clamped down properly to close the tube where the patient’s uterus had been, Hansberry devised a vertical way to apply the endo stitch that simplifies the procedure and reduces the risk of complication.